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Darie Nani

Darie Nani

Editor-in-Chief

Aiming to inform, educate and sometimes amuse.

12 articles

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.