As we celebrate the paperback release of book two in the Mountain King trilogy, we're pleased to dive into the heart of "Wrath of the Mountain King" with author O.R. Sykora. In this interview, she discusses how personal trauma shaped the novel's exploration of grief,...

BY: O.R. Sykora Where does a story come from, and how do its roots grow? There may be as many answers to this question as there are writers in the world. Perhaps there’s a different answer for every story ever written. Years ago, while the plot for Son of the Mountain...

Before John Johanssen ever set foot in Emerald Valley as the man readers meet in Under the August Sky, he was a shy, insecure young adult everyone had once called "Fat JoJo," and who was carrying four years of high school humiliation onto a college campus three...