Published Reviews

Boston Globe reviews The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress by Michelle Richmond “This collection has a novel’s heft…These lives are shaped by fate and place, forces hauntingly evoked by this talented young writer.” Read More »	Seattle Times reviews The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond A harrowing, beautifully written story. Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress by Michelle Richmond “Richmond’s writing is perceptive and heartfelt, her subjects at once edgy and familiar. This is a winning debut.” Publishers Weekly Read More »	Washington Post Media Mix: A Quick Take on New Releases reviews The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond Gripping…Grade: A Read More »
New York Times reviews The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress by Michelle Richmond The stories in Michelle Richmond’s first collection spin artfully off the life of a single character…smart and adept. Read More »	GameWyrd.com reviews Rune Stryders by Michael L Fiegel There's nothing that I'm going to fault Rune Stryders on. I can go through each bit of the book and safely say "I like that". But... the pieces don't quite add all... Read More »
RPGNow reviews Ninja Burger: The RPG 2nd Edition by Michael L Fiegel Ninja Burger: The Roleplaying Game is great. I picked it up mainly out of curiousity. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down (figuratively speaking, of... Read More »	Underkoffler's Overview reviews Ninja Burger Honorable Employee Handbook by Michael L Fiegel (W)orth purchasing if you play a Ninja Burger game, or if you're the sort of person who has bought or would buy Real Ultimate Power: the Official Ninja Book. While... Read More »
Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children 1995 reviews Fernando's Gift by Douglas R Keister The author traveled "deep inside the rain forest in Costa Rica" to document the life of a family committed to saving that country's remnant of old-growth... Read More »	Booklist reviews Fernando's Gift by Douglas R Keister Ages 5-8. Set deep in the Costa Rican rain forest, this bilingual (English and Spanish) story introduces young Fernando and his family. His mother takes care of... Read More »

San Francisco Chronicle reviews Woodsburner by John Pipkin In Texas writer John Pipkin's excellent debut novel, "Woodsburner," the hardware store owner in 19th century Concord, Mass., points out the town eccentric and... Read More »	Coast Reporter reviews Fierce by Hannah Holborn "(Holborn's) imagination...runs riot with vivid and eccentric characters. (Her) scenarios vary from Monty Python to Russian tragedy. Nothing is normal in Holborn’s... Read More »
Midwest Book Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 reviews Mantids by Ron Dakron Insects were never thought of by anyone as 'sexy'. "Mantids" takes a look into the love life of the mantis, and a certain male of the species who can't seem to get... Read More »	Chroma Journal reviews A Dangerous Man by Anne Brooke Read More »
School Library Journal reviews SPLASH A Little Book About Bouncing Back by Maria S van Lieshout VAN LIESHOUT, Maria. Splash!: A Little Book About Bouncing Back. illus. by author. unpaged. Feiwel & Friends. 2008. Tr $12.95. ISBN 978-0-312-36914-9. LC... Read More »	The Good, Bad, and Unread reviews Destiny of the Wolf by Terry Spear Sandy M’s review of Destiny of the Wolf (Werewolf Series, Book 2) by Terry Spear Contemporary Paranormal Romance published by Sourcebooks Casablanca 1 Mar 09 This... Read More »
Long and Short Romance Reviews reviews Deidre's Secret by Terry Spear Deidre's premonitions are her gift, as well as her secret; because just how uncool is it to have visions? In Deidre's Secret, our heroine's second sight becomes... Read More »	Willamette Week reviews You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values by Win McCormack "...a monstrous, Muhammad Ali-like jab square to the Republican groin. Win McCormack, publisher and editor of Portland’s Tin House literary magazine, has compiled... Read More »
Armchair Interviews reviews Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai Author Kirsten Imani Kasai has created a rich world in her first book Ice Song. I found myself mesmerized by the genetic mutations that have changed the world, and... Read More »	Mark Kramer, Founding Director and Writer-in-Residence, Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism, Harv reviews Forgetting English: Stories by Midge Raymond “Midge Raymond turns her elegant, austere sentences precisely, forcing unmediated, intimate connection with readers of her exotic tales. It's nothing short of... Read More »