Published Reviews

For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance Story Circle Book Reviews reviews For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance by Aimee Liu For Keeps is not an easy book to read. It is not about pretty women with perfect bodies who find easy acceptance in a beauty-obsessed culture. No. It is an... Read More »	Los Angeles Times reviews It's My F---king Birthday by Merrill Markoe "Funny in a sly, true, painful way." Read More »
The New York Times reviews What the Dogs Have Taught Me by Merrill Markoe Merrill Markoe has a keen eye for the little lunacies of modern living. Hers is a special talent, desperately needed these days. Read More »	Los Angeles Times reviews Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel by Merrill Markoe There was a time when Merrill Markoe worried that Stupid Pet Tricks, the goofy segment she created for “Late Night With David Letterman,” would be the sum total of... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond A complex and nimbly fashioned first novel. Read More »	Florida Sun Sentinel reviews Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond A dreamy, haunting work with a deeply personal feel. Any time a work of fiction raises our sights to higher truts, as this one does, the writer has done her job. Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette by Pam Tent In 2002, David Weissman’s and Bill Weber’s documentary The Cockettes brought the eponymous 1970s San Francisco glitter-rock drag theatrical troupe back into the... Read More »	Rocky Mountain News reviews The Painting by Nina Schuyler Best Reason to Read: For Schuyler's stylistic versatility. The author's richly imagined Japanese sections resemble Japanese art with their delicate strokes and her... Read More »
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Painting by Nina Schuyler According to the tenets of Buddhism, life is suffering, and suffering arises inexorably from desire, from the act of wanting. In Nina Schuyler's meditative first... Read More »	Poetry Flash reviews The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster When it comes to writing quality literature neither age nor gender should be a barrier. Brenda Webster... proves the point...the concept is refreshingly daring...... Read More »

Kirkus reviews An Apple Pie For Dinner by Susan VanHecke The good-hearted text... scans well and will be a welcome addition to a storytime or family read-aloud. Read More »	Book Wenches reviews The Witch's Beast by Kiki Howell This twisted turn on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast finds the tale from the witch’s point of view. The Witch, Saraphina, has been angered by Prince Amir... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Christian Science Monitor reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Jeffrey Zaslow knew he had stumbled on a hot topic when he wrote a column about women’s friendships for The Wall Street Journal. Almost immediately, hundreds of e-... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Huffington Post reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship by Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow tells the remarkable story of the 40-year... Read More »
AMAZON reviews THE 1969 MIRACLE METS: THE IMPROBABLE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST UNDERDOG TEAM by Steven Robert Travers Steven Travers has produced a certifiable masterpiece with this portrayal of those Amazin' '69 Mets; the team that inspired the imagination of fans everywhere by... Read More »	Five Books reviews The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew JH Sharp ... It is a wonderful story following two children: one colonial, one native African. It’s just out – very new. I thought: yes, this is a pretty rare book; whoever... Read More »
South Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley Unconventional characters provide the backbone of the mystery genre. And Kelli Stanley's riveting new series about 1940s San Francisco private investigator Miranda... Read More »	CC Chronicles reviews The Chimera Seed by Matthew Tully "What would you do if you had discovered and controlled the fountain of youth? That is the question Michael must face when he inherits his father's business. With... Read More »
AOL's Gadling Travel reviews The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India by Shelley Seale Author Shelley Seale’s discovery of this human tragedy led her life in a whole new direction, and it is this that gives the book its impetus. Besides her personal... Read More »	Sacramento Book Review reviews CHANGE YOUR MINDSET NOT YOUR MAN, Learn to Love What's Right Instead of Trying to Fix What's Wrong by Sally B. Watkins Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man by Sally B. Watkins, a clinical social worker, is a rich investigation into the minds of women. Written in simple terms, it is... Read More »