Available now from Atlas Productions is the paranormal Urban fantasy Winged Reaper, book two in the Reaper Series by author Shelley Russell Nolan.


When did you become interested in storytelling?

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love reading books, sneaking off to read whenever I could, and I also loved losing myself in television shows or movies. I would always imagine myself playing a part in the book or the show and when I was sixteen I started creating stories and worlds of my own.

What was your first book/story published?

My first story published was a YA novella, Angel Fire.

What inspired you to write Winged Reaper?

Winged Reaper is book two in my Reaper Series. The first book is Lost Reaper and I started it after a conversation with a friend about what would follow the vampire, werewolf and angel trends. We were naming all sorts of supernatural creatures and when I suggested reapers a line came to me – The first dead body I ever saw was my own – and the seed for the series was born.

What character in Winged Reaper is the most/least like you, and in what ways?

The character least like me is Rhonda, Tyler’s step-mother. While she loves her son, she has no love for her motherless step-daughter. I tend to mother everyone, and if I was ever in the same situation I would shower a step-child with just as much love and affection as my own children.

What is your favorite part in Winged Reaper?

I love the part where Tyler stands up to her father because it shows how much she has matured and is able to accept herself for who she is and not how others see her.

What was the hardest part to write?

Now available to purchase from BadBird Productions is the paranormal thriller The Raveners by author LD Towers.




The author has taken a few moments from her busy schedule to answer a few questions about her novel.



When did you become interested in storytelling?

I became interested in writing as a tween. I was trying to be just like my older sister! Her storytelling really fascinated me, and like many younger siblings, I wanted to be just like my elders. Then I realised I had stories I wanted to share and the rest is history.

What was your first book/story published?

My first book published was Teufel of my Riesa series. While not paranormal at all- it’s a piece of historical fiction set in Germany in the 30’s- I’m still incredibly fond of it.

What inspired you to write The Raveners?

I had this great idea for a ‘vampire’ story- or really a retelling of the whole vampire legend. To be fair- I was going to write something mass market to see if I could catch onto the wave of vampire books and then it turned into something a little more. It has a lot of my thoughts on spirituality and the universe as well. I hope that doesn’t make it sound too heavy?

What character in The Raveners is the most/least like you, and in what ways?

I am probably a lot like Lexa, our heroine. She’s a plus sized military historian- as am I! :) I think if anyone in the book is ‘me’, that would be it.

As for least like me, that would be Ludwig von Gravenreuth. Even though he’s getting his own book soon, we aren’t much alike. He’s a follower. He’s spent his life in service to Karl, our hero, and he’s very content to be in the background.

What is your favorite part in The Raveners?

PG; 95 minutes;$19.98; Amazon

Now available to on DVD + Digital HD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is the romantic-comedy Who Gets The Dog?. Directed by Huck Botko, the film stars Alicia Siverstone (Clueless) and Ryan Kwanten (HBO's True Blood). There are no special features or bonus extras on the disc.

Who Gets The Dog? centers on a couple Clay and Olive separating after six-years of marriage. While they don't have any children, they do have a beloved dog named Wesley, who they both want custody of. The judge gives Olive (played by Alicia Silverstone) temporary custody of Wesley for a 60-day review, so Clay has to settle for weekend visitation rights.

Clay tries his best to get his act together, though living in camper trailer doesn't help much. He also tries his best to get Wesley to love him more than Olive.

After sending years in the minor hockey league as a goalie, out of nowhere Clay gets a call to play in a major league hockey game. Unfortunately, Wesley runs away right before the big game.

Now, Clay and Olive must work through their differences, so they can find Wesley.

Galaxy Audio; 47.5 hours; $59.95; Amazon

For the past two months, I have been listening to the new Battlefield Earth: A Saga Of The Year 3000 audiobook. The 44-disc set is produced by Galaxy Audio (Press), the same company that produces the "Stories From The Golden Age" audiobooks.

Battlefield Earth was originally published in 1982, written by the late L.Ron Hubbard. While the novel was a New York Times Bestseller, there was plenty of controversy at time it was released. I'm not going to go into too much details, but it did involved the fact that the author was the founder of Scientology.

Since I'm a Christian, I don't follow Scientology, but I have listened to several of L. Ron Hubbard's "Stories From the Golden Age" over the years. I'm a book lover, so I will pretty much read any book or listen to any audiobook I can get my hands on. Despite my love for reading, I'm not the biggest fan of the science-fiction genre (minus a few Start Trek titles). I became aware of Battlefield Earth about the time the movie adaptation was released in 2000, which is considered one of the worst movies ever made. I rented the movie once on VHS, and I thought it was one of the silliest things I had ever seen.

Due to my distaste for the movie, I had never attempted to read the original 1000+ pages novel. Well, that is until I heard Galaxy Audio was bringing out a new massive audiobook this year, and I thought I would give the novel a try.

When I say massive... I really mean it!

Now available from Solstice Publishing is the thriller Scooter Nation, book two in the Unapologetic Lives series, by author A.B. Funkhauser.



The author has taken a few minutes out of her busy schedule for a Q&A about her novel.


When did you become interested in storytelling?

When I was seven years old, I found an unused ledger book in the crawl space. Green, hardcover, with clean ruled pages on one side, and blank white pages for illustrations on the other, it made good sense to me to write my own children’s book and draw the pictures too! I filled it with short stories printed neatly in pencil. The only story title I remember is “Fish Head the Cat.”

What was your first book/story published?

I published HEUER LOST AND FOUND through Solstice Publishing in 2015. It took a long time to write, but it was worth it. Heuer taught me how to write.

What inspired you to write Scooter Nation?

I’m a licensed funeral director, and so after I explored the concept of “what happens after we die” in Heuer, I took it back to earth and asked, “what happens when your life and everything you know about it is turned upside down?” in Scooter.

What characters in Scooter Nation are the most/least like you, and in what ways?

Jimmy Patterson; 330 pages; $18.99; Amazon

The identity of Jack the Ripper is still one of the biggest murder mysteries of all time. While there are plenty of theories, the 1888-1891 Whitechapel murders have still gone unsolved.

Today, Jack the Ripper is more of a legend. There have been countless non-fiction titles written about the murders, as well as several fictionalized stories based on the killer. There has also been movies, mini-series, and television series made about Jack the Ripper.

My fascination with Jack the Ripper started when I read a non-fiction middle-grade book about the Whitechapel killings when I was in elementary school during the early 1990s. So, naturally, I was interested in reading the young adult horror-thriller Stalking Jack The Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco, which is the first non-written James Patterson title to be released under Mr. Patterson's new children book imprint Jimmy Patterson Books.

Set in the Fall of 1888 in England, Stalking Jack The Ripper centers on Audrey Rose Wadsworth, a teenager with a sort-of-fetish for the dead. Yep, instead of learning how to be ladylike, Audrey would rather be in a morgue cutting up cadavers with Uncle Jonathan, a professor at Harrow School for Boys. Just like her uncle, she is fascinated with the Whitechapel killings.

PG-13; 108 minutes; $24.99; Amazon

Arriving on Blu-ray +Digital HD on October 25th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is the action-comedy Skiptrace. Directed by Renny Harlin, the film stars Jackie, Chan, Johnny Knoxville, and Fan Bingbing.

For over a decade, Hong Kong detective Bennie Chan (played by Jackie Chan) has been tracking down the crime boss Matador who had killed his partner Yung (played by Eric Tsang). Yung's daughter Samantha (played by Fan Bingbing), who is also Bennie's Goddaughter, gets herself into trouble with a crime syndicate boss Victor Wong (played by Winston Chao).

To help save Samantha, Bennie has to track down Connor Watts (played by Johnny Knoxville), an American gambler and conman who has been making his way through the Chinese casinos. Connor had witnessed a murder of a young woman at Wong's casino. The only problem is Connor doesn't want to help Bennie at all and he tries his best to escape.

To make matters worse, there is a Russian kingpin on Connor's trail as the gambler supposedly got his daughter pregnant. Now, Conor has no choice, but to let Bennie taking him back to Hong Kong, that is if they can outrun the Matador's henchmen.

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