In January, I entered a contest being run by speculative fiction author Susan Kaye Quinn. She was putting together a project for authors who wanted to send their ebooks and other assorted stuff to the moon in a lunar time capsule. 125 authors were chosen by lottery to get aboard this project. She then ran... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Friday Night Massacre by Michael Patrick Hicks
Book Title: Friday Night Massacre Author: Michael Patrick Hicks Publication Date: February 1, 2021 Available On: Amazon as an eBook Indie Athenaeum Rating: 4.75 out of 5 Stars President Tyler Coleridge lost the election and he unequivocally knows his time in the White House is ending. However, now he has contracted COVID-19 and he is on his deathbed.... Continue Reading →
Reading Room: Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 21 – published by Daniel Arthur Smith
Book Title: Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 21 Authors: Michael Ezell, Will Swardstrom, Terry R. Hill, Amira K. Makansi, Jessica West & Daniel Arthur Smith Editor: Jessica West Publication Date: January 26, 2018 Available On: Amazon as an eBook and a paperback Indie Athenaeum Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars The twenty-first edition of Canyons... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Red, White and the Blues – Chronos Origins, Book Two by Rysa Walker
Book Title: Red, White and the Blues – Chronos Origins, Book Two Author: Rysa Walker Publication Date: January 19, 2021 Available on: Amazon as an eBook, a paperback, an audiobook and as an audio CD Indie Athenaeum Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars It’s 2136 and Madi is doing her best to bring her boyfriend Jack back to... Continue Reading →
Short Story Corner: The Omnibot Incident by Ernest Cline
Short Story Title: The Omnibot Incident Author: Ernest Cline This Short Story Can Be Found In: the Robot Uprisings anthology Editors: Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph Adams Publication Date: April 8, 2014 Available On: Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers as an eBook, a hardcover, an audiobook and as an audio CD. The audiobook is also... Continue Reading →
Accomplishments of The Indie Athenaeum in 2020
Welcome to the year 2021 - let it be a lot better than 2020 was. Let's face it, 2020 was dominated by the pandemic and so many other things that are too numerous to mention. It's a year that many will be glad to put behind us, myself included. However, while stuck in self-quarantine, I... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Dog Days of Christmas by Clifford Herriot
Book Title: The Dog Days of Christmas Authors: Clifford Herriot, the pseudonym for Rysa Walker and her husband Publication Date: December 5, 2020 Available On: Amazon as an eBook and as a paperback Indie Athenaeum Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars This is how a dog might review this book if they told it in rhyme and... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: Omnibus 11 – published by Daniel Arthur Smith
Book Title: Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: Omnibus 10 Authors: Wendy Nikel, Gordon B. White, KJ Kabza, Steve Oden, K.H. Vaughan, Kevin Lauderdale, Jessica West, Nathan M. Beauchamp, Sam Osborn & Daniel Arthur Smith Editor: Jessica West Publication Date: December 15, 2020 Available On: Amazon as an eBook and as a paperback Indie Athenaeum Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars In this eleventh... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Jacked by Paul B. Kohler
Book Title: Jacked, A Near-Future Sci-Fi/Suspense Novella: An Ava Blake Thriller Author: Paul B. Kohler Publication Date: Nov. 20, 2020 Available On: Amazon as an eBook Indie Athenaeum Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars Ava Blake wakes up with an implant in her neck after undergoing a surgical procedure! Not knowing anything about who she is... Continue Reading →
Short Story Corner: Merry Christmas From The End by Ernie Howard
Short Story Title: Merry Christmas From The End – A Night Portals Short Story, Season 2 Author: Ernie Howard Publication Date: November 30, 2020 Available On: Amazon as an eBook and as a paperback Indie Athenaeum Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars Brant has suffered tremendous losses and her life has drastically changed forever as a result of a... Continue Reading →