This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Theresa Alt’s book, Survival Spirit. It is a 2023 CWG Seal of Approval recipient!
CWG Book Blast! G.M. Baker’s “The Wistful and the Good”
This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring G.M. Baker’s book, “The Wistful and the Good.” It is a CWG Seal of Approval recipient! The mighty are undone by pride, the bold by folly, and the good by wistfulness. Summary: Elswyth’s mother was a slave, but her father is a […]
CWG Book Blast! Joseph Lewis’s ‘Miracle at the Mission’
This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Joseph Lewis’s book, ‘Miracle at the Mission.’ It is a 2022 CWG Seal of Approval recipient!
Book Review: A new Catholic Chapter Book Series
Kimberly Novak reviews Adventures with the Saints Book 1: Saint Joseph, the Foster Father Saint by Maria Riley, an enduring tale centering around a loving foster family and the relationship between St. Joseph and baby Jesus.
CWG Book Blast! “Secrets: Visible & Invisible,” an anthology!
This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring “Secrets: Visible & Invisible,” featuring short stories by seven Catholic authors. It is a CWG Seal of Approval recipient! Seven stories. Seven+ secrets. Bet you won’t be able to keep Secrets to yourself! Summary: Secrets: Visible and Invisible is a collection of short […]
Turning in Circles, by Michelle Buckman
Within a sleepy farm community along the South Carolina coast, two families coexist. The Thaines and their neighbors enjoy hard work, hospitality, horseback riding, pie, ice tea, kittens, and each other. The Darlingtons favor extortion, white privilege, domination, abuse, dog fights, and freedom from the consequences of their nefarious activities. […]
Rightfully Ours, by Carolyn Astfalk
Rightfully Ours tells of buried gold, but more importantly, it reveals something far more precious in rural, North Central Pennsylvania. The treasure hunters, Rachel Mueller and Paul Porter, find themselves in the Mueller’s kitchen early in the school year, flummoxed by their improbable and unforeseen encounter. Blame it on Ron […]
Racing the Devil, by Charles Todd
Racing the Devil is the nineteenth book in the Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery Series and a tantalizing read. Like many previous Rutledge Mysteries, in Race with the Devil, the Inspector chases after a mass murderer who attacks anyone who obstructs his or her dark ambitions. Targets include Rutledge. THE PLOT Seven British Army officers pledge […]
Moriarty Meets His Match: A Professor and Mrs. Moriarty Mystery (Book 1), by Anna Castle
When writers strain their brains for new ideas, they might consider revisiting an old idea. For instance, Gregory Maguire applied the rules of “alternative fiction,” in his retelling Frank Baum’s classic 1900 story the Wizard of Oz. Forget Dorothy, Maguire wrote from the point of view of the Wicked Witch […]
The Long Cosmos, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
He may have died in 2015, but Terry Pratchett’s spirit lives on in more than seventy of his books. His feel-good novels consistently advocate not only for the underdog, but the under-troll, the under-gremlin, the poor, the powerless, and the downtrodden. His stories and novel-series create new worlds and even […]