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jeffrey-ricker's picture
Dec.02.2012
Elisa Rolle is a book lover who reads a ton and writes reviews at her blog. Every year she organizes the Rainbow Awards, which looks like a fairly herculean effort involving hundreds of books (over 480 this year) in tons of categories and scads of judges. Scads, I tell you. It all culminates in...
jeffrey-ricker's picture
Feb.20.2012
That's the last line of Jerry Wheeler's review of Detours over at Out in Print. Full disclosure: having met Jerry at the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival and contributed a couple stories to anthologies he's edited, I consider him a friend. So, it was a relief to find out he liked the book. I...
jeffrey-ricker's picture
Nov.21.2011
At the risk of repeating myself, I'm going to repeat myself. Tonight (that's Monday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m., folks) is the book launch party for Detours at The Civil Life Brewing Co. Come watch me not throw up while reading in public! Don't have a copy yet? Someone from the fabulous...
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Oct.04.2011
  I swear, people are going to start thinking Rob Byrnes is my other twin. (The first twin being, of course, 'Nathan, since we appear in an inordinate number of anthologies together. No, this is not by design; we just seem lucky that way.) Anyhow. InsightOutBooks is...
margaret-goerig's picture
Apr.22.2011
I suppose there has been a small leap in narrative between my arrival home in early December and my prolonged parking job that has lasted till now, two months later. I therefore have the feeling that some of you are wondering why am I still living at my parents' house, working among the...