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Spoiled Executive Finds Love in the Streamlined Locomotive
Photo by Mark Plötz In The Streamlined Locomotive by Stephen Lloyd Auslender, a spoiled executive finds love and prepares for war in the unlikeliest of places. The Streamlined Locomotive It's the early 1940s, and the United States of America has been preparing itself...

Spoiled Executive Finds Love: Readers’ New Guilty Pleasure
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko Every reader has a guilty pleasure, a genre, or a trope they stick to through thick and thin. To some, this is anything dystopian—apocalyptic scenarios that feed their imaginations. To others, this is romance and how the different...

A Humorous Story About Reaching Maturity with Stephen A.
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio Stephen Lloyd Auslender's humorous wartime love story, Dick and Jane Go to War, is not your typical novel taking place during one of humanity's most pivotal historical periods. This novel has a whimsical and hilarious streak. It has hints of...

Humorous Wartime Love Stories: The Perfect Mix
Photo by Paer Svensson One moment, you’re crying because of the characters’ agony; the next, you’re in tears from laughing your stomach off. Without a doubt, the best stories are those that take you along a rollercoaster ride of emotions—those that make you feel...

Dick and Jane Go to War: A Tragi-Comedy Love War Story
Photo by Ashutosh Sonwani Where it concerns historical fiction set in more recent times--and recent is a very subjective term--the shelves are dominated by stories set during the Second World War. This is understandable. The impact of the war still resonates,...

The Dilemma in Managing Expectations From Family
Photo by Tyler Nix on Unsplash Managing expectations from family while simultaneously striving to achieve personal objectives is often a challenging and intricate problem to navigate. It requires a delicate balance between meeting the demands and desires of...

On The Right Track: The Symbolisms Of Trains In Novels
Photo by Balazs Busznyak on Unsplash The Orient Express nurtured a generation fascinated with railways and their magic. But in novels, the symbolisms of trains are usually under-analyzed. There are many reasons why authors incorporate things into their novels. These...

Theo’s Lighthearted Quest to Develop a Streamlined Steam Engine
Photo by E M In the riveting pages of Stephen Lloyd Auslender's humorous fiction The Streamlined Locomotive, readers are whisked away into a world where family legacies clash with personal aspirations and an unexpected journey of self-discovery. At the center...

Writing Family Relationships And Making Them Interesting
Photo by Rajiv Perera on Unsplash A lot of factors make stories more captivating, one of which is the characters. Incorporating interesting social and family relationships makes stories more alive. Regardless of what genre authors are writing, social and family...

Status Quo: Others Don’t Determine Your Self-Worth
Photo by Ayo Ogunseinde on Unsplash People thrive in external validation. There’s nothing wrong with it, but sometimes too much can be detrimental. What is the best way to determine your self-worth? What motivates you more, hearing someone saying they’re proud of you...