by Melissa J. Troutman | May 31, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fantasy, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
If you’re looking for a fun but deep YA adventure, with some of the most creative writing on my radar to date, look no farther than The Secret of Stardust by Heather L.L. FitzGerald. It’s the next generation of The Tethered World Chronicles—same world, second verse, a...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Dec 8, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
More gifts, more magic, more friends, more enemies, more adventures, more emotions, more themes, more stakes—more everything! Hang on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen, because once you open the cover of Lumen, the second installment of J. J. Fischer’s The...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Aug 11, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I can’t wait to tell you about J. J. Fischer’s newest book, just released in May! If you’re a fan of Pirates of the Caribbean, Laura Frantz, or C. S. Lewis (or all three), The Soul Mark is right up your alley with its Colonial-era swashbuckling, sweet (and...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Jun 9, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Heather FitzGerald has demonstrated herself to be a bold writer in the realm of Christian fantasy, and in this final installment of her Tethered World trilogy, The Genesis Tree, she writes her boldest story yet. The beginning could have been a little faster-paced, in...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Jan 13, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Fairytale retellings are cool and all, but nothing is cooler (literally) than a fairytale retelling mashed with Greek myth in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. A world of gray, ice, and snow. A world where memories are currency. A world of power struggles, gifts, and...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Oct 27, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Now a captain in the Air Force, Roger Greene loves spending his days in the cockpit while helping with a top-secret military project. So when the CIA asks him to leave this perfect life for a temporary government mission against the Heritage Organization, he turns the...
