Renaissance Writer: Gordon A. Long

REVIEW

“The Claiming: The Witches of Hollow Hill Book One” by Glenn Williams

by renaissanceadmin • May 19, 2019 • 0 Comments

This is an unusual book, simply because I don’t often find myself telling an author that the action starts too soon. Because most books that start off wrong never manage to fix it. Let me explain. When you are writing a book in the “hero’s journey” format, there are certain conventions that work. The first…

“The Journals of Incabad Reyl” by Gregory Tasoulas

by renaissanceadmin • May 13, 2019 • 0 Comments

Most fantasy writers start a book and create a world in which to place it. A very few spend years creating a fantasy world and finally write a book about it. Gregory Tasoulas is one of the latter. Picture a universe where once every few thousand years the whole basis of the world undergoes a…

“Lost in a Quatrain” by Adiela Akoo

by renaissanceadmin • May 6, 2019 • 0 Comments

This is an anthology of poems, many of them autobiographical in nature, detailing the poet’s inner life, her faith and her reaction to her environment. In total, it is a wonderful mosaic of a thoughtful and feeling life. Individually, the separate poems are of uneven quality. Some of the most successful of these works are…

“The Final Wars Begin: Final Wars Trilogy 1” by S. A. Asthana

by renaissanceadmin • April 28, 2019 • 0 Comments

“Final Wars Begin” is the story of what would be World War IV except the battle is between the space colonies that survived humankind’s third attempt to annihilate ourselves. The main character is a former soldier who refused to follow immoral orders and became a fugitive as a result. He returns to New Paris, in…

“First Flight: Federal Space Book 1” by Zachary Jones

by renaissanceadmin • April 21, 2019 • 0 Comments

If you like hard Sci-Fi, this book is for you. It starts with a highly detailed description of a space battle — which Earth forces lose — and the action builds from there. It seems Earth and its allies are in the middle of a protracted war against former space colonies when both are attacked…

“The Hunt for the Hollywood Clone, Gavin Baller: Book 1” by Steven Heumann

by renaissanceadmin • April 15, 2019 • 0 Comments

This story has a character arc that resonates through the ages. In order for a man to truly change, he has to be torn away from his old life, stripped down to the essentials, and then given an opportunity to rebuild himself into the person he could be. Gavin Baller is such a character. His…

“Lance: A Spirit Unbroken” A memoir by Walter Stoffel

by renaissanceadmin • April 7, 2019 • 0 Comments

Okay, this is a book about a dog. You know that at the end the dog’s going to die. Such is the nature of dog books. However, the difference in this case is that for most of the book you’re not sure you’re going to be that unhappy. I mean, this is one of those…

“Destructive Salvation” by Jay Deans

by renaissanceadmin • April 1, 2019 • 0 Comments

This book is a Sci-Fi Action Adventure Disaster novel. Yep, all five. It’s about the double-edged sword of scientific advancement, which can be a boon or a weapon, depending on whose hands it ends up in. The story is written is a clear, even style and the plotline of any individual chapter flows well. It’s…

“The Book of Origins: Rude Tales from the Big Bang to the Big Now” by Lawrence Millman

by renaissanceadmin • March 25, 2019 • 0 Comments

Flash fiction is a relatively new genre of writing, usually limited to somewhere between 200 and 1,000 words. Mr. Millman has written a collection of these and put them in one slim volume for our enjoyment. It contains about 60 stories of a length from three pages down to not much longer than the name…

“Always Gray in Winter” by Mark J. Engels

by renaissanceadmin • March 18, 2019 • 0 Comments

Often reviewers and editors have to tell an author that the book started too soon. As in, there was a whole lot of stuff at the beginning that should have been cut out before the real story started. This book is the opposite. Part way through I went back and checked to see if I…

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