Published Reviews

Books and Novels of the Ancient World (subsection of Roman Times) reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley ...I felt like I had bought a ticket to see "Gladiator" but made a wrong turn inside the cineplex and stumbled into Tarrentino's "Pulp Fiction". But as the novel... Read More »	Santa Fe Reporter reviews To The Last Drop by Andrew D Wice On July 2, the Santa Fe Reporter published the following article about me and my novel. The online version is also available -- there's a picture of me!... Read More »
Gumshoe Review reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley Stanley has given us a rich tapestry of a world with depth of color and detail that makes the Londinium of 83 A.D. come alive. Each character has a backstory that... Read More »	Criminal History reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley The plot has enough twists and turns to satisfy the most demanding mystery reader ... The writing is crisp and clean with little padding and minutiae which might... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley … takes the reader on a colorful tour of this singular culture high and low, from jails and brothels to the corridors of power. First-timer Stanley is sure-footed... Read More »	Texas Monthly reviews Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst The real-world town of Colma, California—home to about 1,600 residents and more than two million corpses in seventeen cemeteries (motto: “It’s great to be alive in... Read More »
Amazon.com reviews Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst Mix one part gritty police procedural with one part ghost story, add a splash of teen angst and a hefty dose of black humor, and you have Doug Dorst's brilliant... Read More »	Chicago Tribune Books Section reviews Virgins And Martyrs by Earl Merkel Chicago Tribune Books Section June 21, 2008 Virgins and Martyrs By E.L. Merkel(Five Star, $25.95) The third mystery/thriller from Chicagoan Earl Merkel explores a... Read More »
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Serpent Box: A Novel by Vincent Louis Carrella If atmosphere were everything in fiction, Vincent Louis Carrella's first novel might be proclaimed a masterpiece. "Serpent Box" takes readers deep inside the world... Read More »	Omaha World Herald reviews Serpent Box: A Novel by Vincent Louis Carrella Jacob Flint sneaks out in the middle of the night so that on midnight of his 10th birthday, he'll be at his tree -- the tree where his pregnant mother, seeking... Read More »

Wall Street Journal reviews DOWN AT THE DOCKS by rory nugent ...A movingly profane lament for a 'threatened species', the independent fisherman Read More »	Jessewave Book Reviews reviews The Bones of Summer paperback (US) by Anne Brooke To be honest I'm a little nervous as to whether what I'm going to write now will actually do this book justice. It was that good. So good, in fact, that I may run... Read More »
The Ottawa Citizen reviews The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki Peep, which can instantly evoke images of transparency, transgression and totalitarianism, is all about contradictions, he concludes. For good or ill, it's almost... Read More »	Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reviews The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim Kim traces courage in 'Calligrapher' Korean passage Family's story set against Japanese incursion By Geeta Sharma Jensen of the Journal Sentinel Eugenia Kim's... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin In this smartly restrained ghost story, orphan Jennie has already lost her twin brother to the Civil War, but when her brooding cousin, Quinn, returns wounded to... 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 »
Amazon.com reviews ONLY THE GOOD PARTS by daniel curzon The most amazing and saddest thing about this really fine novel is that apparently few people know about it. That is a real tragedy since ONLY THE GOOD PARTS has... Read More »	On Healthy Survivorship reviews Let My Colors Out by Courtney Filigenzi Oftentimes, insights and mantras that help adults become Healthy Survivors can help children whose parent is going through treatment, if presented in an age-... Read More »
Goodreads reviews Zaftan Entrepreneurs by Hank Quense Zaftan Entrepreneurs is an extremely funny and highly entertaining science fantasy novel by Hank Quense. This book has everything: humor, adventure, magic, war,... Read More »	420 Characters Publishers Weekly reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach By turns cheeky and cherubic, these 420-character shorts from the author’s Facebook page encapsulate in pithy form entire plotlines or character studies. Known... Read More »