Published Reviews

The Urbanite reviews The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems by Ned Balbo With sly rhymes and sudden insights, the poems in The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems weave stories of heroes and monsters into the author's complicated... Read More »	Mojo (UK) reviews Becoming Jimi Hendrix by Brad Schreiber "By remaining focused on Hendrix-as-musician, BECOMING JIMI...is one of the most intelligent and revealing biographies of an unsurpassable giant." Read More »
Nguoi Viet Newspaper/Orange County reviews East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres by Andrew Q Lam Monique Truong and Andrew Lam answering questions from the audience aftera reading event recently organized by the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters... Read More »	Guitarist magazine (UK) reviews Becoming Jimi Hendrix by Brad Schreiber “There’s much here for aficionados to dissect. Especially interesting is the focus on how Hendrix absorbed the stylistic tricks of the R&B circuit he sought to... Read More »
ReThinking Schools reviews By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives by Judith Tannenbaum Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Crown of Dust by Mary Volmer "Volmer's distinctive, beautifully written debut is set in the California gold rush country in the mid-19th century, when tensions and fortunes were as volatile... Read More »
About.com: Breast Cancer reviews Let My Colors Out by Courtney Filigenzi Have you ever had a purple day? Felt orange, yellow, or red? Children can match colors with emotions and use those colors to express emotions when words won't... Read More »	Howard County Times reviews Killer by Dave Zeltserman As "Killer" opens, Leonard March is one of the most hated men in Boston. Arrested for murder, Leonard cut a deal to inform on a mob boss. Assured of a lenient... Read More »
The Boston Globe reviews Killer by Dave Zeltserman Dave Zeltserman is at it again writing about ex-con antiheroes with the kind of panache that would make Jim Thompson, king of the psycho killer novels, proud. In... Read More »	Bookreporter.com reviews The Caretaker of Lorne Field by Dave Zeltserman If you see Dave Zeltserman, tell him he owes me a night’s sleep. Zeltersman is arguably best known for his fine works in the crime fiction genre, novels and short... Read More »

Mike Snider’s Formal Blog at the Sonnetarium reviews Sad Jazz: Sonnets by Tony Barnstone "Antonyms" is the most technically interesting of the death/breath poems. It's built like Herbert's "Easter Wings," starting with a pair of... Read More »	Los Angeles Times reviews The Marriage of True Minds by Stephen Evans When a novel opens with the scene of an indoor pool filled with lobsters and enough ice to keep them alive, and the environmental attorney who rigged this stunt in... Read More »
People reviews The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond A gripping tale... Read More »	Smoky Mountain News reviews Emeralds in the Snow by Maggie Bishop Smoky Mountain News Enterprise Mountaineer. Review by JC Walkup Obsession begins and drives this tale of gems and greed set in these Western North... Read More »
USA Today reviews Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst In the same way Buffy the Vampire Slayer mixed high school and bloodsuckers, Doug Dorst combines cops and ghosts in his Alive in Necropolis. The result is a... Read More »	Seattle Peak Oil Awareness reviews The Long Descent by John Michael Greer The Long Descent is one of the most highly anticipated peak oil books of the year, and it lives up to every ounce of hype. Greer is a captivating, brilliantly... Read More »
Reviewing The Evidence reviews In Cold Daylight by Pauline Rowson This is a fast-paced and enjoyable book with many twists and turns. Adam's investigation is turning over rocks, and there are surprises under them. The characters... Read More »	Travel The Ages reviews The Writer's Guide to the Courtroom: Let's Quill All the Lawyers by Donna Ballman "Ms. Ballman, has a clear understanding of what it would be like to have to research a topic from scratch and write a fiction book because she gives the right... Read More »
http://www.sfpoa.org/journal/84/2012-04-01/silence-mockingbirds-memoir-murder reviews A SILENCE OF MOCKINGBIRDS: The Memoir of a Murder by Karen Spears Zacharias I strongly recommend this book to everyone in the San Francisco Criminal Justice system. It's not a long book, approximately 300 pages. We have a... Read More »	Marie Claire (UK) reviews The Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor An angsty, serious novel of lost dreams and sexual damage. Read More »