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New book Apprentice to the Angels available on Amazon or at www.jesaichantler.com
However, as it seemed all was over bar sighing of the genuine writers, in came the internet with a formidable e-publishing space for their works as if to free the literature from the publishers’ prejudicial editorial grip and to directly deliver their e-books into the readers’ digital laps to sort them out for themselves.
When, in an absorbing story, these and other inimitable characters began to come alive in an intricate plot, I could sense that my maiden novel was turning out into a work of art on the Indian literary stage, and so I was desperate to live up to its completion in its poetic prose. Oh, how I feared death then, and what a relief it was as I lived to keep up with the muse to complete 'Benign Flame'!
From the smoldering ashes of an old bank in Oak Valley rises something sinister. Not a glorious Phoenix, reborn to life, but murder, old and yet recent.
Who would have thought that life held such literary possibilities in English language for a rustic Telugu lad in rural Andhra even in post-colonial India? The possibilities of life are indeed novel, and seemingly my life has crystallized itself in my body of work before death could dissipate it.
How long before this magnificent gift of nature disappears forever from Bangladesh? The central theme of this novel revolves around this question.
Set in 1941 East Tennessee, Hymns of Blue Hollow by Kemma MarShall follows Esther Primm as she seeks refuge at a secluded estate, where opening her heart to new attachments means risking everything. Selected for Midwest Book Review's October 2026 issue, this riveting historical romance explores love, grief, and survival in the American South.
A stand-alone novel in the We Are Not Saints universe — first love, a father's unexplained death, and the years in Chicago that shaped Tony Keating.
There are many fantasies about the ocean and each opens new views on the lore of the depths. In Sea Tales of Felae, Descent, a whole new twist on an ocean fantasy is presented.
Caroline was sentenced to hang, but did she do it. A true story.
