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  Josh Traxon is at a life-changing crossroads. Back in L.A., where he was a rock star and reality show celebrity, he thoroughly embraced the widely accepted norm, drinking until …

And a few who soon will be. You’ve worked hard to craft a great book. You need a great review to go with it. Here at PDR, we pride ourselves …

How to Get Book Reviews OK, you are (or are about to be) a published author. Congratulations! Now, the question looms: How to get book reviews? There are just five …

Plastics’ are attempting to infiltrate human society in insidious ways, and a few astute people aren’t having it in Ryan’s Robot, which moves between real people and the robots which …

What do you get when you cross a standup comic with a premature baby? (No, seriously — it’s a real question.) In the case of Paul Alexander and his wife …

Clifford Klovis has a stroke at the very beginning of Clifford’s Spiral, and you can sense right away that you are in for one of the most original, satisfying literary works …

In the movie “A League of Their Own,” Tom Hanks braces up one of his trembling all-girl-team players and barks, “Are you crying?” When she doesn’t respond, he follows this …

Jeremy Austin and the Paladin is young adult sci-fi thriller writing at its best: an exceptionally fast-paced story of mystery and magic revolving around technology’s drive and dangers. This combination of …

It is January, 2006, at the end of a sweltering day. In Baghdad. U.S. Infantryman Paul Endris and his squad are in the very early days of their Iraq War …

Through Each Other’s Eyes represents historical romance at its best as it probes the life and times of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, who are frustrated with each other and …

Getting There: Profiles in Overcoming Obstacles and Connecting with Success comes from a business coach and speaker who advocates a program of cultivating strategic growth connections as a way of fending …

Just because The Unforgiven: The Untold Story of One Woman’s Search for Love and Justice is a true crime exposé doesn’t mean that the drama and tension of fiction aren’t …

  Book Promo Video for Two ‘Til Midnight from BL Dillard on Vimeo. Avenging angels vie with demonic creatures to either carry out or try to thwart the will of …

Of all the Reverend Doctor Toni Petrinovich’s many truisms in her life-altering book If It Works, Use It, the phrase that has stuck with me most goes back to a …

Serpents of Old is a novel steeped in Southwest atmosphere and mystery,. Author Kirk Millson’s familiarity with Arizona and Mexico’s byways (albeit now changed by growth and technology) lends a …

The Legacy and the Lion is the first book in the Yusan Chronicles, a military sci-fi story that holds a different atmosphere than most. It’s set in the future, but focuses …

In her extraordinary book, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best, author Cathy Burnham Martin exudes an enthusiasm for life unmatched in other self-help books that claim to boost …

Review by Diane Donovan Plum Rains on Happy House is set in Japan, where an odd kind of boarding house containing a strange cast of characters engages a Westerner, Lawrence …

Review by Cy Young, Publishers Daily Reviews Great writers are often measured by reviewers using a literary yardstick of sorts. In “The Art of Dramatic Writing,” Lajos Egri applies a …

Step into a world where student pilots repeatedly overshoot runways, foreigners desperate for a pilot’s license are casually extorted for an upfront nonrefundable fee of $10,000. And their instructors are …

In the opening scenes of Hauling Checks, the pilot is gazing languidly out his cockpit window at an engine that’s fully engulfed in fire. The air traffic controller, who can …

Award-winning author Mike Kowis, Esq., has done it again, practicing what he so eloquently preaches. He has rolled back the mysterious veil that has long kept many an independent writer …

Alexandros Serafeim is a celebrated pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon in Perth, Australia, the land down under. He is entrenched firmly at the pinnacle of his hospital’s staff and quite literally saves …

Hard-charging jetcar driver Vittoria Tarno and her intrepid racing team Goofé Troupé take their legendary racing prowess to Mars in this heart-stopping, totally cinematic look at next-gen interplanetary auto racing. …

The complicated life of a repertory theatre actor takes center stage in the extremely well-written novel Strutting and Fretting by debut author Kevin McKeon. Opening in the 1970s resort town of …

It often comes as a shock to writers — particularly the authors of novels and other works of fiction — that once the supposedly “hard work” of crafting a well-written …

“Five-Plus Stars to Beat Bop” – Publishers Daily Reviews Smooth jazz-loving private investigator Varian Pike meets enlightened, poetry-quoting thief Ronnie Hayes at the very beginning of the excellent new P.I. …

Miriam waits in the wings of the theater night after night, anxiously inhaling the aura of the woman for whom she is an understudy. She is, in theater parlance, a …

Finn is a confused young man. And for good reason. He lives on a world in the distant future where the sexes have been separated for the first 22 years …

  Laura Bailey doesn’t want much. Just a front page byline in her New York City tabloid about something more substantial than the quality of the finger sandwiches at a …