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Darie Nani

Darie Nani

Editor-in-Chief

Aiming to inform, educate and sometimes amuse.

22 articles

Cover of Twenty Five by Moshea, a boy in a number 25 vest standing in front of a giant wolf on the lawn of a red-brick group home

Fiction, Authors & Writers

Twenty Five, a Lycan Found-Family Fantasy for Mature Teens and Adults Drawn from Author Moshea's Years in Group Homes

·5 min read

Ten-year-old Jean-Eza's arrival at a group home changes the lives of 24 other boys, who discover their hidden Lycan nature and form a pack. Its author has spent decades studying child psychology, fostering, coaching and tutoring young people.

Anthony Eddolls and his wife, Chris, by the ocean at sunset

Authors & Writers, Thrillers

Anthony Eddolls on His FBI Thriller Series and Where Agent David Stilley Goes Next

·6 min read

The Maui-based crime novelist, who publishes through his own company, Robert Anthony Books, also talks about finding readers as an independent author and the scams aimed at new writers.

Tom LeNoble seated on a sofa in a dark, studded interior, hands clasped

Memoir & Biography, Business & Leadership

Tom LeNoble, Who Joined Facebook at 50, on How to Reinvent Yourself

·6 min read

The former head of customer service at MCI, Walmart.com and Palm now advises founders and executives on changes of direction, and his memoir has won seven book awards, including a 2026 NYC Big Book Award.

Thomas LeBrun, close protection specialist and author of Aurora Rift

Fiction, Authors & Writers

Thomas LeBrun's Aurora Rift, a Time Travel Book for Outlander Readers, Named an NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite

·4 min read

A bodyguard for more than 40 years to clients including Bill Gates and Elton John, LeBrun sends a martial artist and scientist from Stone Age Norway to Kublai Khan's court in his first science fiction novel.

Michael Hodgdon, founder of Elite SEO Consulting and author of Quickest Path to ROI SEO

Business & Leadership, Authors & Writers

Is SEO Worth It for a Small Business? Michael Hodgdon Says Fix the Service Pages Before Writing More Blog Posts

·7 min read

The Colorado Springs consultant's book, Quickest Path to ROI SEO, reached No. 1 on Amazon's Search Engines bestseller list and uses client figures to show when search work starts paying for itself.

Ask voice in Omphalis answering a spoken question about Emerson's The American Scholar, with numbered sources beside the text

Reading Lists

Reading App Omphalis Lets Readers Use AI to Understand a Research Paper by Asking Questions Out Loud

·6 min read

Founder Stanly Thomas, who has more than 20 years of engineering experience, including roles at Microsoft, Oracle and Schneider Electric, designed the voice feature to ground each spoken answer in the reader's selected sources, with the passages it used on screen.

Author Rick Tabor in his study, in front of bookshelves

Thrillers, Fiction, Authors & Writers

Rick Tabor's Sci-Fi Political Thriller The Blink of Humanity Explores the Dire Cost of Political Corruption

·3 min read

The Blink of Humanity follows a bioengineer with epilepsy and her robot companion as they set out to bring a corrupt US president to justice after a nuclear attack on Chicago.

Chris Scharff, author of Memories: My Life Story

Memoir & Biography, Authors & Writers

Hanns Scharff's Son Chris Scharff Traces His Family's Path From Wartime Germany to Africa and America in WWII Memoir

·5 min read

Born in Greiz in 1936, the Carlsbad author spent 20 years in South Africa and Rhodesia before joining his father in Los Angeles, and in retirement met one of the American pilots his father had interrogated.

Elizabeth M. Lykins, author and spiritual coach

Self-Development, Non-Fiction, Authors & Writers

Physician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness

·6 min read

An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.

Joseph Howse (second from left) on the literary fiction panel at the 2026 Kingsmead Book Fair in Johannesburg with Michiel Heyns, Sven Axelrad and Shakti Pillay

Authors & Writers, Literary Fiction

Joseph Howse's Soviet-Era Novel The Circus and the Atom Wins World Literature and Audiobook Fiction at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award

·7 min read

The Nova Scotia author's second book, set in Kiev over the New Year of 1988 into 1989, also took a Distinguished Favorite for its cover, while his debut The Girl in the Water was honoured for its audiobook. The Next Year's Snow series has now sold to more than 80 public library systems in seven countries.

John Bissell, PhD, author of The Power of Negative Thinking: A Practical Guide to the Strength Doubt and Worry Can Give You

Self-Development, Business & Leadership

John Bissell's The Power of Negative Thinking Draws on 14 Years Rescuing Failing Businesses in Portland

·5 min read

The author lost a company of his own when a single client went bankrupt owing him 83% of his income, then coached more than 100 owners of failing businesses between 1986 and 2000. His practical guide argues that doubt and worry, used deliberately, are better preparation than forced positivity.

Author Paul Rushworth-Brown with his father Jimmy Brown at the Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales

Fiction

Outback Odyssey Review: The Yorkshire Orphan Who Asked to Be Taught the Land

·5 min read

Paul Rushworth-Brown's post-war migrant novel sends a Yorkshire orphan by ship to a Gippsland sheep station, and its opening chapters are the author's own father's story.

Call Out The Dogs by Anthony Eddolls, paperback edition

Thrillers, Fiction

Call Out The Dogs Review: Anthony Eddolls Takes Agent Stilley From a Rome Murder to the Doors of the White House

·4 min read

The third Special Agent David Stilley adventure opens as a two-city murder case and finishes as a political thriller, written by an author who spent four decades in finance before turning to crime fiction from his home in Upcountry Maui.

DUMB 31 by Nik Nanoski, a post-apocalyptic novel, standing on a steel desk in an underground bunker as the vault door opens onto sunlight and overgrown vegetation

Fiction

DUMB 31 Review: Nik Nanoski's Debut Finds Community at the End of the World

·4 min read

The Army veteran and nurse's post-apocalyptic debut follows four friends out of a failing bunker and into a surface world still full of people, where survival is a group effort.

DUMB 31 by Nik Nanoski, a post-apocalyptic novel styled as a bunker operations manual

Authors & Writers

Army Veteran and Nurse Nik Nanoski Releases DUMB 31, a Post-Apocalyptic Novel Ten Years in the Making

·4 min read

The San Antonio author spent a decade writing a science fiction novel where survival depends on teamwork, not lone heroes, drawing on twenty years as a combat medic and nurse.

Dr. Latrece Wright holding her book The Uninvited Pebble

Memoir, Authors & Writers

Dr. Latrece Wright Shares the Health Scare Behind The Uninvited Pebble

·4 min read

In The Uninvited Pebble, Georgia minister Dr. Latrece Wright writes about the weeks of waiting after a routine mammogram found a solid mass, and the faith that carried her through them.

Kenneth Bliss, author of Canthany Rising and The Accident

Fiction

Kenneth Bliss Writes Christian Fantasy Books for the Dungeons and Dragons Generation

·5 min read

The Michigan author maps tabletop RPG mechanics onto Christian theology across two books set in the same universe, targeting a niche that barely registers in search data.

Anthony P. Jones, author of Sorrowful Mysteries

Fiction

Sorrowful Mysteries by Anthony P. Jones Called 'The Da Vinci Code on Steroids' by Producer George Folsey Jr.

·6 min read

The late Hollywood producer behind Animal House and Coming to America endorsed the Virginia author's Catholic thriller before his death in December 2024.

Voyage of the Salamander book cover over Lily Starling series hero artwork

Fiction

Voyage of the Salamander: The Independent Space Opera That Just Won Three BookFest 2026 Awards

·8 min read

Christian Hurst writes his Lily Starling novels on evenings and weekends, between a day job in advertising and a house full of rescue beagles. This month one of them quietly took First Place in three categories at the BookFest 2026 awards, and it is one of the warmest, most character-driven space operas you will read this year.

Cindy Divine by Shafter Bailey book cover

Fiction

Cindy Divine Is the Fictional Girl Holding a Mirror to Real American Politics

·4 min read

Shafter Bailey's debut novel follows a traumatized girl who becomes a global figure, but the real target is the political class that lets children fall through the cracks.

John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Hollywood, Ending. Photo: johngreenbooks.com

Fiction

John Green's New Book Ends a Nine-Year Silence

·3 min read

The Fault in Our Stars author announces Hollywood, Ending, his first novel since 2017 and his first work of adult fiction.

James C. Clemens Jr, author of Echoes of Strength

Fiction

Author James C. Clemens Jr on the Poems That Came From Listening to God

·4 min read

In Echoes of Strength, James C. Clemens Jr turns real experiences of struggle, family, and faith into inspirational poetry that reads less like verse and more like testimony.