Published Reviews

Grasping For the Wind: book reviews, fantasy, and life's little jottings reviews Sails and Sorcery by Danielle Ackley-McPhail A few other notable authors who I had not heard of before, but whose stories I enjoyed Renee Stern (Hostage), Chris Stout (a chilling tale called The Medusa),... Read More »	The Fantasy Review reviews Sails and Sorcery by Danielle Ackley-McPhail If you enjoy any combination of short stories, nautical fantasy and new authors then I would suggest checking out this new anthology. Read More »
The Fix, Short Fiction Reviews reviews Sails and Sorcery by Danielle Ackley-McPhail In “Consigned to the Sea” by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Sionna and her daughter, Kate, have been captured by North Sea pirates who want Sionna to show them a course... Read More »	Wild Violet Vol VI, Issue 3 - Mortal Coil reviews Bad-Ass Faeries by Danielle Ackley-McPhail The editors of Bad-Ass Faeries have collected stories about faeries much edgier than the sparkle-winged Tinkerbelles who dominate popular culture, returning the... Read More »
The Huntress Reviews (cross posted on Amazon.co.uk) reviews Bad-Ass Faeries by Danielle Ackley-McPhail So here are nineteen Faery tales which in no way resemble the cute little faeries of our childhood. Some stories are written better than others, but all of them... Read More »	Small Press Reviews reviews Bad-Ass Faeries by Danielle Ackley-McPhail If we were to randomly approach a person on the street, say a construction worker or a no-frills politician, and ask that individual what characteristics a faerie... Read More »
The Harrow: Original Works of Fantasy and Horror, Vol 10, No 7 (2007) reviews Bad-Ass Faeries by Danielle Ackley-McPhail Standout stories include Elaine Corvidae's "Hollow Dreams," in which Pook runs with a group of homeless kids, empowered but haunted by his halfbreed... Read More »	Tangent Online reviews Bad-Ass Faeries by Danielle Ackley-McPhail "At The Crossroads" by Danielle Ackley-McPhail is one of the true gems in Bad-Ass Faeries. Lance is a half fae, half human motorcycle gang leader. His... Read More »
Horror Reader reviews Bad-Ass Faeries by Danielle Ackley-McPhail If the title brings to mind Tinkerbell with twice as much 'tude and heavy armaments, and you've got this anthology in a nutshell....Overall, I'd have to say this... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger "In a way, Dermaphoria is the literary equivalent of the cult film Memento... reminiscent of William Gibson's work, but Clevenger has his own attitude and a... Read More »

420 Characters The Onion reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach The old adage that a book shouldn’t be judged by its cover doesn’t hold true for 420 Characters. As a formal experiment, its packaging helps define how it... Read More »	Authonomy reviews The Dance of the Pheasodile by Tim Hewtson le Roux The first two chapters are the funniest start to a book I have ever encountered (well, I may exaggerate, but it felt like it). It keeps it up too. When our hero... Read More »
Thisisull reviews The Dance of the Pheasodile by Tim Hewtson le Roux With his sixth novel, Hull native Tim Roux, is certainly one of the city's most prolific writers. A committed champion of all things East Yorkshire, the... Read More »	The Psychologist, Vol. 22 reviews Dasha's Journal: A Cat Reflects on Life, Catness and Autism by T.O. Daria Dasha, the feline narrator, is a witty cat-scientist. Her research focuses on Alex, an autistic boy, whose family has learned the hard way how best to accommodate... Read More »
Women Writers reviews What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward The reader realises soon that not for nothing do fat yellow and black bees crawl over the fruit on the cover of Lockward’s book. In a poem entitled, “Invective... Read More »	3cr radio 855 Melbourne reviews Eating Steve: A Love Story by J Marc Schmidt "This is a fun book... very engaging, beautifully funny. Recommended." Read More »
Hillcrest Congregational Church News reviews The Social Cause Diet: Filling Up with Satisfying Acts of Service by Gail Perry Johnston Does volunteering for social causes improve your health? This is the contention of Gail Johnston and her new book “The Social Cause Diet.” As she states “adding... Read More »	Quill and Quire reviews Valley of the Lost by Vicki Delany Delany has a lot of plot and atmospheric elements to balance, but she does so with relative ease. The focus doesn’t waver from the main investigation, and the... Read More »
E!Online reviews The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin Lucy Corin's The Entire Predicament. These stories take about 10 seconds each to get their hooks in you for life. Do those hooks hurt? Of course they do, in all... Read More »	The Agony Column, Bookotron.com reviews Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai Kasai's prose is up to the challenge of a setup reminiscent of the genre-changing classic by Ursula K. Leguin, 'The Left Hand of Darkness.' 'Ice Song'; is a... Read More »