Frances Carden

About Frances

Frances is the author of the horror novella The Mine. She has also been published in Abundant Grace; Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and other Magical Fiction for Adults; Answers I’ll Accept: True Accounts of Online Dating; 20 Something Magazine; and Wisteria Magazine. She wrote for Epinions.com for eight years. Frances is currently working on a dark fantasy/horror novel called Plague Town.

Frances has a Master in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and works as a technical writer during the day, where she attempts to make software exciting.

Frances’ Reviews

Mary

Mary

Perimenopause or Paranoia? Author: Nat Cassidy There’s a dead woman in the bathtub. This isn’t the first time, however, that Mary ...
Nine Lives To Die

Nine Lives To Die

When Pets Investigate Author: Rita Mae Brown The town of Crozet, Virginia is preparing for a snowy Christmas season. Almost everyone ...
Rapture

Rapture

The Dangers of Obsession Author: Thomas Tessier Jeff Lister is a successful man, at least in the world’s eyes. He lives ...
Nestlings

Nestlings

Motherhood and Mayhem Author: Nat Cassidy Anna and Reid are a young couple with a new baby and a traumatic backstory ...
Empire of Dirt, The

Empire of Dirt, The

Lyrical, Literary, Loathsome, and Lifeless Author: Francesca Manfredi Valentia lives in the “blind house,” in rural Italy, growing up with ...
Forsyte Saga, The

Forsyte Saga, The

Love Affairs, Betrayal, and Divorce Author: John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga is an introspective journey through three generations of a newly wealthy ...
Blinds, The

Blinds, The

The Pain Of Remembering Author: Adam Sternbergh Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open ...
Eileen

Eileen

Alcoholism, Laxative Purges, and Maybe an Eventual Scandal Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Living alone with her alcoholic, demented father, Eileen is both ...
Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

An Empathetic Look Into a Misunderstood Monarch Author: Antonia Fraser Historically, Marie Antoinette is known as a vicious, yet fashionable ...
Golden Couple, The

Golden Couple, The

Deadly Secrets Authors: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen Marissa and Matthew Bishop have an outwardly perfect life; after all, they’re both ...
Flint the King

Flint the King

One of the Best Dragonlance Adventures Authors: Mark Kirchoff & Douglas Niles It’s five years before the companions’ reunion, that fateful ...
Wrestling With Job 

Wrestling With Job 

A Basic Look at the Book of Job Authors: Bill Kynes and Will Kynes Job is one of the more difficult ...
Coffin County

Coffin County

Terrible Twists and Sloppy Shocks Author: Gary A. Braunbeck Coffin County is book four in Gary A. Braunbeck’s increasingly weird, irreverent ...
Unsexed

Unsexed

Searching for Mother Love Author: Marina DelVecchio Marina’s life is one of being in-between, merging into the unseen grey areas, a ...
I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street

I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street

Have a Hazardous Christmas Author: Ben Farthing Doug is a child who LOVES Christmas. His family enjoyed celebrating it, until the ...
Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage

Righteous Ruin Author: Anthony Trollope Have you ever had the desire to know great people? To rise above your place in ...
Girls, The

Girls, The

A Fictionalized Version of the Manson Cult Author: Emma Cline In The Girls author Emma Cline utilizes a fictionalized account ...
Influence, The

Influence, The

Monsters in the Desert Author: Bentley Little Ross Lowry is down on his luck. For years, he was the support system ...
Underhanded, The

Underhanded, The

A Cartoonish Thriller Author: Adam Sikes Professor William Dresden has never fit in, not with his family, and not with the ...
Rip Tide

Rip Tide

A Summer of Second Chances Author: Colleen McKeegan The old saying goes that you can’t step in the same river twice ...