Published Reviews

Romantic Times reviews 14 by JT Ellison 4 and 1/2 Stars!!! Ellison's second Taylor Jackson story is precisely plotted and crisply written, and there are several effective twists. It's guaranteed to... Read More »	The Compulsive Reader reviews Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks Christopher Meeks's collection of short stories features two short stories previously published by Amazon Shorts and Rosebud — the title story “Months and Seasons... Read More »
India Today reviews A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey It’s a troubling journey into a complex society trapped between western liberalism and radical Islam, where distortions about India and Indian Muslims dominate... Read More »	The News, Pakistan reviews A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey Being a Muslim in India is a tough job. Threatened and terrorised by a growing number of Hindu militant extremists, and constantly looked at with suspicion and... Read More »
Daily News and Analysis (DNA) reviews A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey Read More »	HorrorWorld.org reviews Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories by Catherine Lundoff HAUNTED HEARTS AND SAPPHIC SHADES: LESBIAN GHOST STORIES Edited by Catherine Lundoff Review by Alicia "Kestrell" Verlager Women's writing is filled with stories of... Read More »
O: The Oprah Magazine reviews The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning by Peter Trachtenberg "Frank and urgent . . . . Trachtenberg . . . . rais[es] complex questions about justice, malice, compassion, blame, self-pity, personal responsibility, faith, and... Read More »	Historical Novel Review Online (August - November quarter 2008) reviews THE WOLF AND THE LAMB, Book One of the Berkeley Trilogy by Rosy Cole Mary Cole, a butcher’s daughter from Gloucester, is ignorant of the ways of the world. In a time when men of the aristocracy had “official” mistresses, the... Read More »
Metapsychology Online Reviews (Australia) reviews Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks "Months and Seasons" revisits some Carver territory with stories about (mostly) blue collar workers, often hard pressed by circumstance, hoping that their luck's... Read More »	Minds Alive on the Shelves reviews Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks I've been reading a lot of short story collections lately - not my usual fare. Short stories are a good way to get a sense of a writer, seeing how he or she... Read More »

The Los Angeles Times reviews Chronicles of Air and Dreams by Rosa Martha Villarreal Magic and mystery abound in “Chronicles of Air and Dreams: A Novel of Mexico” by Rosa Martha Villarreal (Archer Books: $22, 239 pages), but the book is not just... Read More »	CLASSIC ROCK magazine (UK) reviews Becoming Jimi Hendrix by Brad Schreiber This unique and fascinating book ends pretty much where most rock fans' awareness of Jimi Hendrix begins: on his arrival in the UK in the autumn of 1966 with... Read More »
Portland Book Reviews and also American Chronicle reviews Santa's Birthday Gift by Sherrill S Cannon When reading the Christmas story, does your child often ask …where does Santa Claus fit into all this? Well, now we have the answer with Sherrill Cannon´s fun... Read More »	School Library Journal reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline It’s 1937, and Anya Rosen is struggling to adjust to her new home in Shanghai after her family flees secret police and religious persecution in Odessa, Ukraine.... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews A Double Life, Discovering Motherhood by Lisa C. Harper “Harper’s elegant, thoughtful writing makes this a must-read for expectant parents: there is both affirmation and information, such as a scientific explanation of... Read More »	Grady Harp reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks FIVE STARS The concept of marrying science and passion as the topic for a novel is a challenging one at best. And that is exactly what Christopher Meeks has... Read More »
Beautiful Books for Children reviews The Magic Word by Sherrill S Cannon Elisabeth is a little girl who knows what she wants. Problem is, that she never says please or thank you to get it. The reality of the consequences of being rude... Read More »	Minneapolis Star Tribune reviews Next Stop: A Memoir of Family by Glen Finland Glen Finland has written a memoir of wonderful insight and emotional honesty about her fearsome love for her autistic son, David, who seeks to move from... Read More »
CM: Canadian Review of Materials reviews King of the Castle by Kathy Stinson This brief, concisely written and touching novel, crafted by award-winner Kathy Stinson, explores the difficulties of being an illiterate adult in a literate... Read More »	Pebble Lake Review reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon "With its popping language, lucid narrative and striking imagery, Lemon seems to have greedily plundered the entire scope of contemporary poetry for what may be... Read More »