I've been a fan of Peter Straub's since I first read Mystery back in 1990. Although I've seen him characterized as a "horror" writer, I've always thought his books had much more of a mystery/ghost story kind of feel to them than most horror books...

A friend sent me one of those humor emails today, and I have to share it. These are the writers of tomorrow, folks! Kids DO say the darndest things... This is a picture of an octopus. It has eight testicles. (Kelly, age 6) Oysters' balls are called...

Have you ever seen a category assigned to a book and wondered exactly what it meant? Or have you ever been in a bookstore looking for books by a particular author, and found them scattered in different category sections throughout the store –...

I have fallen in love with indie author Amy Lane's Little Goddess series! These books have carried me away and I'm foaming at the mouth for the next book in the series, which is due out next year. So far three books have been published in this...

Just imagine that when you were five years old, your parents were horribly killed in a car accident, and you were left alone all night by their bloodied bodies until help arrived the next day. Imagine the horrors you lived with as you were shunted...