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 Masters in Fiction Writing from Johns Hopkins and works as a technical writer during the day, where she attempts to make software exciting.
Frances’ Reviews

Call of the Wild
Darwinism and Danger: The Edgy Classic That Just Didn’t Capture Me Author: Jack London Buck, a majestic dog with a ...

Bohemian Gospel
Game of Thrones Like Intrigue Blending with Dark Fantasy and Magic Author: Dana Chamblee Carpenter Dana Chamblee Carpenter’s eerie debut novel, Bohemian ...

Lost World, The
Crichton Drops an Egg Author: Michael Crichton Following on the phenomenal (and multi-billion dollar) Jurassic Park novel and accompanying blockbuster movie, ...

Oliver Twist
The Social Eye of Morality Author: Charles Dickens Famous for the “please sir, I want some more” line Oliver Twist ...

Zen of Zombie, The
A Dead-Ringer for Some Zen Parody Author: Scott Kenemore Established as a self-help sensation (and evident path to the Nirvana ...

Between the World and Me (Frances)
Growing Up Black In America: A Man's Letter to His Son Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates For our impending May discussion, my ...

Haunted Ground
Bog Bodies and Irish Mystery Author: Erin Hart In the heart of rural Ireland the ancient and the modern commingle ...

Crippled America
So - what's all of this Trump stuff about anyway? Author: Donald Trump As an adamant political agnostic (politicians may ...

By the Shores of Silver Lake
Little House in the Wild West Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder Transiting from eking out a hard existence farming the blighted ...

My Name is Lucy Barton (Frances)
How do we tell our own stories of destruction? Author: Elizabeth Strout The enticing Book of the Month video review praising the ...

Great Expectations
"How does she use you?" Author: Charles Dickens Phillip Pirrip (Pip) is a young orphan boy being viciously “brought up ...

Chef Maurice and the Bunny-Boiler Bake Off
Deadly Secrets are Stewing in Beakley Author: J.A. Lang The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, Hamilton the micro-pig ...

Eye of the Needle
A Tense World War II Thriller Filled with Spies and Tactics Author: Ken Follett A tense thriller, Eye of the Needle is ...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
And Now For Something Completely Different Author: Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a ...

Spirituality and the Gentle Life
Be Gentle With Yourself . . . And Then What??? Author: Van Kaam Encountering Spirituality and the Gentle Life in a massive ...

Warden, The
All the Grey Spaces in Life Between Right and Wrong Author: Anthony Trollope In the small, English church village of ...

Brutal Telling, The
"Chaos is coming, old son." Author: Louise Penny In the depths of the Canadian woods, near the quaint and quirky ...

Fates and Furies
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” (above quote from Napoleon because I, too, can be a smarty-pants) Author: ...

Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Green Gables Second Set of Adventures Author: L.M. Montgomery Returning to the magic realm of Green Gables and ...

Shack, The
The Shack: Profound Spiritual Fiction Author: WM. Paul Young Seeing The Shack for sale in a cozy independent bookstore in Chattanooga brought ...