Published Reviews

Wall Street Journal reviews First Girl Scout, The Life of Juliette Gordon Low by Ginger Wadsworth "...a good-looking volume, illustrated with historical photographs, set on pages that resemble pale green embroidered linen and sparkling with the force of Low's... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey by Shannon Huffman Polson In her debut, Polson offers a memoir of her journey down a river of grief, set against the sparkling beauty of the wilderness of her native Alaska..Polson shares... Read More »
MungBeing Magazine reviews "Iron" by Zarina Zabrisky "It’s rare to find so many layers in a collection of short stories that draw from so many elements such as myth, pathos, symbolism, philosophic thought, tragedy... Read More »	Dallas Morning News reviews What Happened To My Sister by Elizabeth Flock "I honestly thought Me & Emma was about as perfect a book as I could ever want to read, with absolutely no need for a follow-up. But now that I’ve read What... Read More »
The Writer Magazine reviews The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing by Martha Stockton Alderson Martha Alderson, a.k.a "The Plot Whisperer," has been a nationally recognized plot consultant for 15 years. Here she offers loads of exercises to help writers... Read More »	A Mommy's Place reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall Here’s what’s up with the BlogHer Book Club these days: My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate and David Marshall. Not so much a book to... Read More »
Angela Amman reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall Untangling the different strands of my life goals can seem daunting at times. With only so many hours in a day and so many weeks in a year, I can fall into the... Read More »	lil' Burghers reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall If you asked me what I wanted to be when I was 5, I would have said a veterinarian. When I was 18, that changed to a teacher. Now at 29, I am happy in... Read More »
Kapachino reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall I’m someone who thrives when I have goals and a plan in place to get there. Not just for the big stuff like my family, education, and career, but for little things... Read More »	Unintentially Brilliant reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall When I was in high school, we had a project where we had to make a timeline of our life. Birth to death, and everything in between. I got married, had two children... Read More »

The Washington Post reviews Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America by Jay Feldman Feldman, a freelance writer whose previous books are “When the Mississippi Ran Backwards” (2005) and “Suitcase Sefton and the American Dream” (2006), doesn’t... Read More »	The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Enchantment: New and Selected Stories by Thaisa Frank REAL, magical By Skip Horvack In an essay titled "Good Readers and Good Writers," Vladimir Nabokov argued that, while major writers are... Read More »
School Library Journal reviews Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde Gr 9 Up–When her mother chooses her boyfriend over her own daughter, Elle, 16, is moved into an apartment across Manhattan. She develops a friendship with Frank,... Read More »	The New York Times reviews Small Damages by Beth Kephart “Dreamlike” is one word for Beth Kephart’s latest novel, Small Damages, in which an American teenager is exiled to Spain after she gets pregnant. Her percolating... Read More »
Santa Cruz Weekly reviews New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011 by Robert Sward Outsider Dog Robert Sward throws his voice, and fetches it By Stephen Kessler When Robert Sward arrived in Santa Cruz in 1985, he instantly became the... Read More »	http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/pc-writers/2011/10/24/review-of-even/ reviews Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories: Volume Four: Asia and the Pacific by Michael L Schmicker Even The Smallest Crab Has Teeth: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories: Volume Four, Asia & The Pacific is the last of a series of four handsome anthologies... Read More »
CK2S Kwips and Kritiques reviews River by Skyla Dawn Cameron No one would ever guess that RIVER is a debut novel unless you told them! Skyla Dawn Cameron has perfectly captured the angst of the teenage years in a format... Read More »	Ardentdreams.com reviews "First Touch" (in the anthology I LIKE IT LIKE THAT). by 'Nathan Burgoine For Nathan Burgoine everything of importance was present in the first touch. For him, it was done in black marker – at once dazzling, fear-filled, permanent – and... Read More »
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Red Ant House by Ann Cummins Part of the pleasure of this collection is the way Cummins pushes the boundaries of language, transforming the mundane into something strikingly new. Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Rooted in Danger by Terry Odell The suspense is an ever-present force, with danger enhancing the sensual and very real romance between a most unlikely couple. Read More »