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 Interview with Tiffani Collins Author of The Traveler's Journal Series Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I’m writing an epic fantasy series set in an alternate history universe where magic is not only real but as pervasive as technology is in our world.  Actually, the story takes place in a whole series of alternate versions Earth strung together in what my main character, Danny, calls the Related Worlds.  She’s writing to Alice, who lives in our world, telling her all about her life as a Conduit, an individual with great capacity and affinity for magic that the rest of society uses to increase their own power – a kind of human familiar.  The first book in the series was about how Danny managed to liberate herself from her very powerful family who were exploiting her terribly.  My second book, which I am about to release, is about her struggles to find a new home for herself and a base of operations as she sets out to free others like...

  Once in a while I'll stumble across a show that has all the ingredients for an effective and entertaining story, only to have the story fall apart completely, and become entertaining for all the wrong reasons. This week, or maybe last week, my wife and I discovered a glistening little gem on Netflix that held a Pandora's box of awfulness. One trope after another punched the viewer with giant, clown boxing gloves, delivered with all the finesse of a drunk tap-dancer with his shoelaces tied together. This PG or PG-13 movie purported to be a mystery based upon a book written by a famous mystery author. The story line goes like this: Famous mystery writer goes to see her sister. The sister has always played second fiddle to mystery writer. Sister is now a high school teacher who hides a secret life as an online d*****trix. Said life consists of dressing in leather and masks while cracking a whip and shouting, "Say it!" Sister is also initiating a custody battle, now tha...

  Author Interview with Katharine Wibell Author of The Guardian's Speaker, The Djed Chronicles, The Incarn Saga, and more Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I am currently working on further installments of my Viking novella series, The Guardian’s Speaker. The series is based on Norse mythology, and readers will get to explore the nine worlds located in and around Yggdrasil, the world tree, as well as meet a vast number of beasts and beings from that mythos. The first novella begins with Líf Lothbransdottir. Though she is the sibling of two of the most elite warriors in her village, she is a rather meek and solitary young woman. This is due to the fact that she was born with the ability to see and communicate with each person’s fylgja, an animal-shaped guardian spirit. Líf has grown accustomed to being treated as an outcast and even come to accept her life. That is until she meets another with a similar gift who brings a warning that all humanity is at...

  Klingons in Distress Uhura turned in her chair to better address the captain. "Distress call, sir. It's Klingon. They report that they have been seized by a beam from planet Cestus VI. Their ship is breaking up." "Beyond sensor range," Spock said, anticipating Kirk's question. "Intelligence on Klingon positions indicates a single ship, a Klingon battle cruiser in the system." "I'm not picking up any responses to the distress signal, Klingon or otherwise," Uhura said. "Mr. Sulu, set a course for Cestus VI." The distress signal ended abruptly. Scanners located debris in orbit. Spock indicated that the debris was consistent with that of a Klingon battle cruiser. Immediately thereafter, the Enterprise was seized in a tractor beam from the surface. Kirk and a landing party beamed down to the surface of the class M planet to check out the source of the tractor beam.  If the power source is not disabled, the Enterprise will be de...