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 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

My Name is Lucy Barton (Frances)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Avonlea

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

Shack, The

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

Strip Tease

A Happy/Sad Book – Beautiful, Sordid, and Ultimately Hilarious Author: Carl Hiaasen Jumbled between the sleaze of lust-filled nightlife, the ...
Yoga All-In-One for Dummies

Yoga All-In-One for Dummies

An Essential Beginner's Guide to All Things Yoga Author(s): Larry Paynem Georg Feuerstein, Sherri Baptiste, Doug Swenson, Stephan Bodian, LaReine ...
Magician's Lie, The

Magician’s Lie, The

Scheherazade with Magic and Bondage Author: Greer Macallister Ada Bates was born to a transient life with a fickle, love ...
Dead Wake (Frances)

Dead Wake (Frances)

A Real Narrative of the Lost Titanic of History Author: Erik Larson Erik Larson is somewhere between a historian and ...
On the Banks of Plum Creek

On the Banks of Plum Creek

 My Personal Favorite Little House Story Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder Back on my nostalgic, re-living the golden moments of my ...
Nemesis

Nemesis

Miss Marple's Final Adventure Plus Some Beyond-The-Grave Clues Author: Agatha Christie Miss Marple is back to solve one final mystery, ...
Japanese Lover, The

Japanese Lover, The

Stoic Self-Absorption and a Why a Book Obsessed with Issues has No Meaning Author: Isabel Allende When I learned of ...
Pilgrim's Progess, The

Pilgrim’s Progess, The

An Epic Christian Journey  Author: John Bunyan Tirelessly journeying through my one woman quest to read the classics (aka, a ...
Framed and Burning

Framed and Burning

Some People Want to Watch the World Burn Author: Lisa Burnette The second in a groundbreaking paranormal mystery series, family ...