Published Reviews

Publishers Weekly reviews Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains -- the Science Behind Love, Sex, and Attraction by Jena Pincott [starred review] Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? Bodies, Behavior, and Brains—the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction Jena Pincott. Delacorte, $20 (384p... Read More »	Poetry Review / Volume 98:3 /Autumn 2008 reviews But a Passage in Wilderness by Margo Berdeshevsky "...It is this ability to perceive hope in despair, joy in grief - not in the abstract but in daily lives - which infuses these poems with a rare beauty. The... Read More »
Sharp Words reviews The River, By Moonlight by Camille Marchetta Chief among [the book's] appealing elements is the sense of time and place ... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon "Doyon writes pungently, with a wry slant, and pulls no punches regarding gossip, jealousy, schadenfreude and the myriad human foibles that are the backbone of... Read More »
The Portland Phoenix reviews The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon "Doyon's writing is colorful and confident, in the way of John Irving and Richard Russo, and she is able to balance both the tragic and the comical with deft... Read More »	BookPage reviews The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon "In her striking debut novel, Stephanie Doyon, who has ghostwritten several novels for young adults, creates characters so rich that readers will automatically (... Read More »
The Anniston Star reviews The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon "Certainly one of the deep pleasures avid readers can experience is discovering a writer who has always seemed to have been a part of their lives. There's a kind... Read More »	The Boston Globe reviews The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon "...Doyon, who lives in Maine, has written several young-adult series. She bridges the gap from youth to maturity with intelligence and sensitivity. Robert could... Read More »
The New York Times reviews The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon "...Ms. Doyon's book spans decades and takes some powerful, serious turns. Without overburdening her material, she develops an array of serious acts and... Read More »	Vitesis.com reviews The River, By Moonlight by Camille Marchetta Reading a book about depression and suicide has the potential for being depressing or overwhelming. This one is filled with hope. Read More »

January Magazine reviews Runoff by Mark Coggins "[O]pens with one of the most original action sequences I’ve read ... This creative set piece and the chase that follows through the streets of Chinatown--a... Read More »	The 99th Monkey Style Weekly, Richmond, Va. reviews The 99th Monkey by Eliezer Sobel Eliezer Sobel and his wife, Shari, live in an unassuming neighborhood in the Fan. Their lawn is well-groomed, the paint isn’t peeling and you can’t smell the... Read More »
LIBRARY JOURNAL reviews DYING UNFINISHED by Maria Espinosa LIBRARY JOURNAL December, 2008 Espinosa's new novel portrays Jewish American mother and daughter Eleanor and Rosa over several decades, from the 1940s to the... Read More »	Bookslut reviews You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values by Win McCormack "You Don’t Know Me: A Citizen’s Guide to Republican Family Values by Win McCormack is really great bathroom reading. Organized alphabetically by topic, which range... Read More »
The Oregonian reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith "[Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow] can be enjoyed on its own or read simultaneously with the 1973 novel,... 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 »
nameberry.com reviews The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman My daughter got her name from a San Francisco Guardian newspaper box. Actually, she got her name from a prophetic graffiti artist who chose a Guardian newspaper... Read More »	Voices of Youth Advocates Magazine reviews Please ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King Vera Dietz likes flying under the radar. She is a straight-A student, works full-time as a pizza delivery technician, and, as a high school senior, doesn't have... Read More »
ANZ LitLovers Litblog reviews The Wedding Shroud by Elisabeth Storrs I hope that Elisabeth Storrs has written the sequel to The Wedding Shroud by the time I set off on my next long-haul flight. It’s always difficult to find... Read More »	Amazon.com reviews The Dance of the Pheasodile by Tim Hewtson le Roux In the opening scene, architect Keith McGuire wakes up to find himself swinging upside down outside the plate glass window that wraps around the lawyer's office... Read More »