Published Reviews

Lambda Literary Review reviews 98 WOUNDS by Justin Chin Justin Chin stitches together a collection of stories in 98 Wounds (Manic D Press) that are visceral, unsettling, overwhelming, disturbing, poetic, beautiful,... Read More »	Pirene's Fountain reviews For One Who Knows How to Own Land by Scott Owens I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on “reverse regionalism” (a concept I coined with the confidence and confusion of a young intellectual) in the poetry of... Read More »
The Midwest Book Review: Small Press Bookwatch reviews Gates of Eden by Charles Degelman Gates of Eden Charles Degelman Harvard Square Editions ISBN: 9780983321637 $14.95 www.harvardsquareeditions.org War is not to be waged lightly. Gates of Eden is a... Read More »	The Japan Times reviews My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa by Elizabeth McKenzie My Postwar Life: New Writings From Japan and Okinawa, edited by Elizabeth McKenzie. Chicago Quarterly Review Books, 324 pp., $19.95 (hardcover) The first entry in... Read More »
The Sunday Telegraph (Australia's largest newspaper) reviews The Raven's Heart by Jesse Blackadder Jesse has all the hallmarks of a great historical fiction writer, achieving a fine balance of thoroughly researched atmospheric detail and suspenseful story... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews A Nest in Springtime by Belle Yang Chinese Lessons in Board Books by Julie Danielson on May 25, 2012 \| Posted in Children's I don’t write often enough about board books for... Read More »
Library Journal reviews The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian "Bohjalian powerfully narrates an intricately nuanced romance with a complicated historical event at the forefront. With the centennial of the Armenian genocide... Read More »	Amazon Review reviews Dream Chaser, A Novel That Reaches Beyond the Veil of Time by Christina Greenaway I was drawn into DREAM CHASER by a quick glance at the prologue, set in August 1944. As a WWII buff, I enjoyed Ed, a daredevil RAF Spitfire pilot,... Read More »
Amazon Review reviews Dream Chaser, A Novel That Reaches Beyond the Veil of Time by Christina Greenaway Christina Greenaway comes at us with great writing skill. Her characters are vivid, distinct and interesting. She weaves a story about success, fame and spiritual... Read More »	Amazon Review reviews Dream Chaser, A Novel That Reaches Beyond the Veil of Time by Christina Greenaway Dream Chaser's characters intrigued me. Sara Jensen is a brilliant, driven woman who has risen to the top of her field in advertising. We meet... Read More »

Stride Magazine reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover Poems in Spanish is haunted by a ghostly presence throughout, whether it be of the poet's dead father or a kind of landscape of the mind, which is also, one feels... Read More »	NY Daily News reviews Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary by Maya Gottfried "Gottfried... based her poems on real-life animals that reside at Farm Sanctuary, one of the nation's leading animal protection organizations." Read More »
Midwest Book Reviews reviews Ghost Orchid by DK Christi GHOST ORCHID by D.K. Christi L&L Dreamspell P.O. Box 1984 Friendswood, TX 77549-1984 www.lldreamspell.com ISBN 9781603181365 Mel, consumed by her love for a... Read More »	Women's Voices for Change reviews The Edge of Maybe by Ericka Lutz The Edge of Maybe speaks to those spaces in-between, both geographically and spiritually, that we mostly don’t think exist in the certainty of youth. In... Read More »
New York Times reviews The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress by Michelle Richmond The stories in Michelle Richmond’s first collection spin artfully off the life of a single character…smart and adept. Read More »	Sun Sentinel (Florida) reviews Depth of Deception (A Titanic Murder Mystery) by Alexander Galant "Alexander Galant has created a thrilling murder mystery: One with countless cliffhangers and suspense, but no foreshadowing that could hint to what will... 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 »	The Reno News and Review reviews Grind by Mark Maynard I really liked this collection, and I’ve got to add it to my “local must reads” list. I don’t want to make too much of it, but I’ve really noticed an uptick in... Read More »
Vinography - www.vinography.com reviews The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn Siler "With stellar reporting and clear, enjoyable writing Julia Flynn Siler... describes the long rise and sharp descent of California's most iconic vintner," writes W... Read More »	The New York Times reviews Odd Duck by Cecil Castellucci What makes for a good old ordinary duck? Is it eating “everyday duck pellets”? Checking out “A History of Good Ducks” from the library? Theodora thinks so, and... Read More »