Interview with Author Ben Blotner
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed Ben Blotner about his writing and soon-to-be released book, OUT OF THE BASSLINE, an energetic, emotionally sincere coming-of-age story that blends college comedy, music culture, and personal reinvention with surprising depth. (Read the review here.). Ben Blotner is a writer, musician, and financial professional…
BookView Review: OUT OF THE BASSLINE: a story of baseball, sex, drugs, and rock & roll by Ben Blotner
BookView Review rated it: Coming soon ISBN 979-8-9997308-0-0 Author website Author interview Blotner’s debut is an energetic, emotionally sincere coming-of-age story that blends college comedy, music culture, and personal reinvention with surprising depth. When Dexter Byrd begins college at Richard J. Haggerty University, he enters a world where emo music never died. Surrounded by eccentric…
Book Excerpt: Mortal Vengeance: A Grim Tale: (The Mortal Vengeance Series, Book 0) by Alejandro Torres De la Rocha
From the blurb A Caribbean Gothic Prequel to Mortal Vengeance The halls of Excelsior Academy gleam with marble and stained glass, but behind the polished façade lies something far darker. Discipline is worshiped, individuality is crushed, and silence is the only currency that keeps you safe.Seventeen-year-old Julián Díaz already feels the weight of that silence…
BookView Review: Mortal Vengeance: A Grim Tale: (The Mortal Vengeance Series, Book 0) by Alejandro Torres De la Rocha
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date February 4, 2026 ISBN 979-8246885512 Print length 524 pages Price $25.00 (USD) Hardcover, $19.99 Paperback, $4.99 Kindle edition Book excerpt Torres De la Rocha’s prequel to Mortal Vengeance fuses dark academia, Dominican folklore, and psychological horror into a brutal portrait of institutional cruelty. The halls of…
BookView Review: Moondust: A Collection of Poems by Kahlani B. Steele
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date March 6, 2026 KBS Publishing ISBN 978-1763588387 Price $12.00 (USD) Paperback, $4.99 Kindle edition Those familiar with contemporary nature-driven, introspective poetry will recognize the sensibility at work in Steele’s latest, a collection of poems organized into seven thematic sections that move fluidly between external landscapes and interior reflection.…
Interview with Author Christian Hurst
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed Christian Hurst about his writing and recently released book, Lily Starling and the Death Machine, a high-stakes, character-driven YA sci-fi with a distinctly dystopian edge (Read the review here.). As an award-winning author and creative director, Christian Hurst knows how to tell a story with…
BookView Review: Lily Starling and the Death Machine by Christian Hurst
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date April 30, 2026 Outpost Books Se ISBN 979-8993932705 Price $17.99 (USD) Paperback, $7.99 Kindle edition Author interview Hurst’s tightly executed third entry in the Lily Starling series is a fine blend of suspense, calculated intrigue, and blurred moral lines. What begins as a routine visit to Caris’s lab…
Interview with Author Barbara Avon
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed Barbara Avon about her writing and recently released book, The Vow – A Boxing Love Story, a bruising, heartfelt knockout (Read the review here.). Avon is a multi-genre author. She’s written Romance, Romantic Thrillers, Time Travel, Mystery, Horror, and Paranormal Romance. Her work appears in…
BookView Review: The Vow – A Boxing Love Story by Barbara Avon
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date April 9, 2026 ISBN 979-8255615186 Print length 231 pages Price $21.99 (USD) Paperback, $11.99 Kindle edition Author interview A boxer offers a struggling writer everything she needs, on one condition: she has to write a love story about the two of them in Avon’s electric romance. Phillip…
BookView Review: Peg, Unhinged by Teri M Brown
BookView Review: Peg, Unhinged by Teri M Brown
A middle-aged real estate agent’s carefully constructed life unravels, and forces her to rebuild from the inside out in Brown’s latest novel. Peg McMann is not where she expected to be at this stage of life. Her husband has left, her children offer little sympathy, and a…
Interview with Author E. T. Darkmore
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed E. T. Darkmore about his writing and soon-to-be released book, Project H.E.A.L.: Welcome, a suspenseful, darkly imaginative adventure that fuses humor, mystery, and sci-fi horror into a gripping middle-grade thriller (Read the review here.). E.T. Darkmore is the author of Project H.E.A.L., a horror and…
BookView Review: Project H.E.A.L.: Welcome by E. T. Darkmore
BookView Review rated it: Coming soon ISBN 9798994832202 Publisher McLean Imaginations LLC Author website Author interview Two siblings spend their summer inside a hospital and uncover a secret experiment that may be far more dangerous than anyone realizes in Darkmore’s suspenseful middle-grade novel. What starts as a dull summer at a hospital quickly becomes something…
BookView Review: Family Secrets: The Clover Clan I by Lizzie Mac
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Atmosphere Press Pub date March 10, 2026 ISBN 979-8901740651 Print length 386 pages Price $31.99 (USD) Hardcover, $19.99 Paperback, $8.99 Kindle edition Love, secrecy, identity, and the pull of destiny intertwine in Mac’s emotionally charged romantic suspense novel. On her first solo trip abroad, Nina arrives in Brussels expecting…
BookView Review: Beyond Superhero School: Let the Games Begin! (The Vork Chronicles #2) by by Gracie Dix
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date April 25, 2026 Print length 508 pages ISBN 979-8280000520 Price $16.99 (USD) Paperback, $5.99 Kindle edition In Dix’s Vork Chronicles sequel, a live TV game show promises thrills—but inside the Environmental Dome, survival is anything but entertainment. Stepping into the public eye, a team of superpowered teens…
BookView Review: Confessions of a Problem Seeker: My Lifetime Journey From Busy Brain To Loving Heart by Howard Steinberg
………………… BookView Review: Confessions of a Problem Seeker: My Lifetime Journey From Busy Brain To Loving Heart by Howard Steinberg
Steinberg offers a candid, psychologically astute account of a man shaped by trauma, illness, and an inherited legacy of survival in this compelling memoir. Raised by Holocaust-survivor parents and diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes…
BookView Review: Ballot: When Fate Called Their Name by Dan Mulvagh
BookView Review: Ballot: When Fate Called Their Name by Dan Mulvagh
Mulvagh’s quietly powerful novel examines the randomness of conscription and the deep, enduring connections shaped by shared hardship in war. 1969. A birthday ballot decides who goes to war. For Mitch, Jay, Greg, and Kiwi, one number changes everything. Bound by chance and hardened…
BookView Review: Through the Lens of An Ancient Yisra’elite Bible Study by Benjamin N Carrasquillo Jr
BookView Review: Through the Lens of An Ancient Yisra’elite Bible Study by Benjamin N Carrasquillo Jr
Carrasquillo offers a thoughtful exploration of biblical interpretation that encourages readers to reconsider how Scripture is approached today. The work proposes that many modern interpretations have been shaped by Western philosophical and cultural assumptions that can obscure the historical…
Interview with Author Stacy R. Ward
Interview with Author Stacy R. Ward
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors.
Recently, we interviewed Stacy R. Ward about her writing and recently released book, Too Deep to Drown, a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that intertwines personal resilience with the fragile beauty and wounded reality of the ocean…
BookView Review: Too Deep to Drown by Stacy R. Ward
BookView Review: Too Deep to Drown by Stacy R. Ward
Ward delivers a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that intertwines personal resilience with the fragile beauty and wounded reality of the ocean. After walking away from the life she once knew, seventeen-year-old Meg Pullman boards a Pacific research vessel as an intern, certain the vast ocean…
Interview with Author Alejandro Torres De la Rocha
Interview with Author Alejandro Torres De la Rocha
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed Alejandro Torres De la Rocha about his writing and recently released book, Mortal Vengeance: A Grim Tale, a chilling coming-of-age thriller about fractured loyalty and the relentless consequences of revenge.
BookView Review: Mortal Vengeance by Alejandro Torres De la Rocha
BookView Review: Mortal Vengeance: A Grim Tale by Alejandro Torres De la Rocha
In Torres De la Rocha’s latest novel, a group of teenagers at a Santo Domingo prep school discovers that revenge can unleash consequences far beyond their control. Bound by loyalty and simmering resentment toward a tyrannical teacher, Marcos, Alex, and their close…
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