Published Reviews

Booklist magazine reviews Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison Starred Review If one looked at only Robison's impish sense of humor (he once ordered a blow-up sex doll to be delivered to his junior-high-school teacher—at... Read More »	Publishers Weekly online and print reviews Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison Starred Review. Robison's thoughtful and thoroughly memorable account of living with Asperger's syndrome is assured of media attention (and sales) due in part to... Read More »
San Antonio Express-News reviews The United States of Appalachia by Jeff Biggers When the hit TV show “Lost” ended last spring, the writers had reintroduced to the American vocabulary the pejorative use of a word that had, thankfully,... Read More »	Mystery Scene Magazine reviews Lost Dog by Bill Cameron ... Cameron's ability to make readers feel for both speaks volumes; his ability to keep readers in suspense as they come closer to a final meeting makes him... Read More »
Fiction Nation reviews Lost Dog by Bill Cameron ... Took me a while to decide how I felt about this book, until I realized I'd been holding my breath for several pages. Its damaged characters and cold locale... Read More »	Roundtable Reviews reviews The First Mother's Fire - Book One of The Soulstealer War by W.L. Hoffman Clocking in at fewer than three hundred pages, THE FIRST MOTHER’S FIRE is a quick read and never overstays its welcome like more than a few ponderous fantasy books... Read More »
GUD Magazine reviews The Cure by Anthony Marais Marais’ “The Cure” is an elegantly erudite novel with compelling prose. It recounts a man's mental journey, far from home; Robert has distanced himself from... Read More »	The Charlotte Observer reviews Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient Maya by Char Solomon If you're in a women's book club that needs a good selection for March - Women's History Month - consider "Tatiana Proskouriakoff." The title is a... Read More »
American Book Review reviews A Gesture Through Time by Elizabeth Block In the enduring materiality of its presence and its playful formal invention, Gesture sets itself apart as an enduring piece of metafiction. Read More »	Booklist reviews In the Sierra Madre by Jeff Biggers The Sierra Madre is familiar to readers because of B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and John Huston's film version of the novel, which starred Humphrey... Read More »

Publishers Weekly reviews ROGUE MALES: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life by Craig McDonald “A fascinating follow-up to the 2006 Art in the Blood dialogue with leading crime writers, this collection by journalist and fiction writer McDonald (Head Games)... Read More »	Long And Short Reviews reviews DANCING WITH FATE by Hywela Lyn “Dancing With Fate” is a simple love story, made very intriguing with magical characters. Hywela Lyn wrote a beautiful and touching story of undying love and... Read More »
BookIdeas.Com reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley Equally satisfying are the glimpses that the author provides into Roman life. Many scenes are set in Arcturus's household, for instance "a good opportunity for us... Read More »	POST NO ILLS Magazine reviews ]Open Interval[ by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon a voice that is fascinated by the flexibility of language, and the ability to move freely, mutate even, into versions of self Read More »
New York Times Book Review reviews Woodsburner by John Pipkin “I once set fire to the woods,” Henry David Thoreau laconically confided to his journal in 1850, six years after he torched approximately 300 acres of Concord... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Woodsburner by John Pipkin An inglorious episode in the life of 19th-century author and environmental saint Henry David Thoreau is the subject of Pipkin’s impressive debut novel. In 1844, a... Read More »
Bermudaonion's weblog reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Since The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas is full of characters and is told in a non-linear fashion from different points of view, I had... Read More »	http://www.internetreviewofbooks.com/aug09/brief_reviews.html reviews Shimmer by Eric Barnes “Eric Barnes colors his characters with nuance and complexity. … [F]ast-paced and exciting, and above all, thought provoking.” Read More »
Waging Peace blog at timesunion.com reviews The Evolution of Shadows by Jason Quinn Malott Malott’s novel is a sparely written and stark depiction of three people and a nation confronting the horrors of war. Read More »	Long and Short Romance Reviews reviews The Dragons of Hazlett by Michelle L. Scott This is the biggest surprise I’ve read so far as a reviewer. I absolutely could NOT put this book down! ...I definitely recommend this author – and anything else... Read More »