About the Author Myrlande E. Sauveur was born in Haiti. She came to the United States when she was 17 years old to further her education. She started writing poetry and short stories at a very early age. Some of her writ...

If your dreams could transform into real-life form, you would truly have great power. This is the basic premise of Najeev Raj Nadarajah’s Dream Caster. Weaver, a young country bumpkin, lives in a post-apocalyptic world and shov...

Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, has famously said that the idea for her best-selling tales of sparkly vampires and forbidden love came to her in a dream, and we all know the story of J.K. Rowling on the train. M...

The trailer for Dead Man’s Alibi, Mita Jain’s new murder mystery, covers just about every typical genre element in two tidy minutes. Cry in the night? Check. Inspector with murky intentions? Check. A mysterious love interest, a...

From its quintessentially melodramatic voiceover to its ‘90s-esque eerie blue graphics, everything about the trailer for James Regan’s Frameworks: The Price of Delusion screams sci-fi cliché. The plot, though, sounds like it co...

The acting and script are somewhat amateurish in the trailer for N. Lombardi Jr.’s The Plain of Jars, but its dramatically edited photographs of real-world strife in Laos hint that this book may offer its readers genuine insigh...

For some of my rules and preferences about book titles, see my related article this week, “What’s in a Name?” I’m wary of long and overcomplicated titles; all too often, I fear, they might be masking a book that actually has ve...