Sheila's Guests and Reviews

Today I'm delighted to spotlight the novel Mad Dog by Kelly Watt. It's just been republished and I really enjoyed reading it. MY REVIEW: Kelly Watt’s Mad Dog views the idyllic apple orchards of Ontario through the eyes of a lonely fourteen-year-old protagonist who veers between obedient and rebellious as the long hot summer draws on. Her mother disappeared long ago and Sheryl-Ann lives with her aunt, uncle and cousin on a family farm, surrounded by family and isolated from the world. They go to church together on Sundays. They're considered standoffish and odd, but they're part of the community. And in term time Sheryl goes to school and knows other girls seem different. But in summer… This summer her larger-than-life uncle “adopts” a teen musician, a runaway dreaming of greatness. The story of Sheryl’s growing attachment to Peter plays over a background of music, blossom and bees. Everyone works together in the orchards. The dog barks. Everyone relaxes together...

WOLVES AT OUR DOOR by Soren Paul Petrek * Historical * Action * Adventure * Title : WOLVES AT OUR DOOR Author : Soren Paul Petrek Publisher : Editions Encre Rouge/Hachette Livre Pages : 319 Genre : Historical/Action/Adventure The Allies and the Nazis are in a deadly race to develop the ultimate weapon while supersonic V-2 rockets rain down on London. Madeleine Toche and Berthold Hartmann, the German super assassin who taught her to kill, search for the secret factory where Werner von Braun and his Gestapos masters use slave labor to build the weapons as the bodies of the innocent pile up. The Allied ground forces push towards Berlin while the German SS fight savagely for each inch of ground. Finding the factory hidden beneath Mount Kohnstein, Hartmann contacts his old enemy, Winston Churchill and summons Madeleine to his side. While she moves to bring the mountain down on her enemies, Hartmann leads a daring escape from the dreaded Do...

I've been working on the sequel/companion novel to Divide by Zero, another book set in the same world, with some of the same characters . It's a fairly normal world, with fairly normal people, in a normal place, not hard to imagine at all. I've been writing more New Testament entries in my Five Minute Bible Story (TM) Series too, all set in the historical world of Israel, 2000 years ago. But all I have to do is research what the world was like, read the Bible, read a few other books, add characters and stir. (Follow the blog tour at http://sheiladeeth.blogspot.com/p/bethlehems-baby-tour.html .) Meanwhile author Michael West has created a complete and believable contemporary town that's only outwardly normal. It exists in the author's and readers' imaginations, replete with history, geography and more, and it's peopled with fascinating characters, awesome scares, and gore. If you've never been to Harmony Indiana, be very careful with these books, o...

Of course, I'm not the only person with a new book coming out soon. Click here to find out more about Bethlehem's Baby , and see below for another great book, coming soon from the author of the middle grade novels, The Chosen and Nature's Unbalance , and the autobiographical My Open Heart.  Destiny starts a new YA series for this author and I'm delighted to join other bloggers in revealing its truly gorgeous cover! Enjoy (and see below for a blurb and excerpt too!). Coming Soon Blurb: Constantly teased and taunted by the popular girls, Elena Baxter desperately wants to fit in. On her sweet sixteenth, she receives two shocking gifts: telekinesis and the surprising truth about her heritage. With high hopes that things will be different now, Elena returns to school to find that nothing has changed. Only this time her hurt feelings and frustration boil into something even she cannot understand.  When her powers explode, chaos ensues and she learns that h...