Published Reviews

Calico Reaction reviews Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland The reviews below will focus on each individual story, and in some cases, there will be spoilers. On the whole, I can say that Pelland has a clean, crisp style... Read More »	The Fix reviews Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland Jennifer Pelland’s first collection, Unwelcome Bodies, is a compendium of dark tales that are truly speculative. Each one embraces a cosmic “what if”—many of the... Read More »
KIRKUS REVIEWS reviews WHEN THE COWS GOT LOOSE by Carol Weis Similar in premise to Tres Seymour's Hunting the White Cow (1993), but far from that tale's delicate serenity, this wild romp pits young Ida Mae against no fewer... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Rewind, Replay, Repeat: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Jeff Bell FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Bell's memoir is a revealing look at life with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that goes to often hysterical lengths to convey... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews Consumption: a novel by Kevin Patterson "'In this powerful first novel, a beautiful Inuit woman spends her teen years in the 1960s in a Montreal TB sanitarium, learning French and mathematics from... Read More »	Lambda Book Report reviews Biting the Apple by Lucy Jane Bledsoe At first I thought that Lucy Jane Bledsoe's new book, Biting the Apple, was released at the wrong time of the year. Dipping into the first pages, I imagined I was... Read More »
Literary Pride reviews Reap the Whirlwind by Josh Aterovis There is great romance here, and the religious elements, to me at least, made the book extremely readable—to the point that I could not stop reading once I began.... Read More »	Literary Pride reviews Bleeding Hearts by Josh Aterovis Aterovis manages to give us real characters, the kind that we can identify with, even if the storyline may seem to be a bit unusual. As Killian Kendall matures and... Read More »
Rainbow Reviews reviews Bleeding Hearts by Josh Aterovis This is an astounding and award winning piece of gay literature. The reader is taken on a roller-coaster ride of romance, murder-mystery, thriller, comedy as well... Read More »	The New York Sun reviews Killer Year: Stories to Die For by JT Ellison When reading mysteries (or maybe anything, for that matter), whether for fun or because it's part of the job (some job!), it's easy to fall into the fuzzy womb of... Read More »

InDenverTimes.com reviews Shimmer by Eric Barnes Eric Barnes is completely fearless. His debut novel, Shimmer, is an insightful and incisive rendering of the kind of high-tech confidence man that it’s impossible... Read More »	Front page of book reviews Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony "A scathing, satirical and often shocking trip through "the other war" in Iraq—the war within the U.S. Army, and within a soldier’s soul. Michael Anthony’s memoir... Read More »
Too Shy to Stop reviews Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond by Jane Satterfield In her newest book Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond, poet and essayist Jane Satterfield writes, “What surprised me most when I settled... Read More »	Poets' Quarterly reviews Paternity by Scott Owens Overall, this is a very hopeful book, despite the represented father’s own dysfunctional childhood. The issue of abuse is no surprise in Scott Owens’ work. His... Read More »
http://www.gayalliance.org/emptycloset/2010/07/book-review-blood-strangers/ reviews BLOOD STRANGERS: A Memoir by Kathy Briccetti Blood Strangers does what I had previously thought impossible of a memoir. It tells a story that is simultaneously heart-wrenching and heart-warming, profound and... Read More »	CR's Kwips and Kritiques reviews Wolf Fever by Terry Spear Carol and Chaz have fantastic chemistry, and the tension of the desire they are fighting alongside the deadly spreading disease in their midst adds page-turning... Read More »
Goodreads reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline Anya’s War is a tender coming-of-age tale of a Jewish girl whose family escaped to Shanghai from the impending Nazi takeover of their home in Russia. Fourteen year... Read More »	RAGMAG, An International Magazine of Culture and Art reviews Hystera by Leora Skolkin-Smith “Someone once said that literature is either weighty and wise or interesting and captivating. Skolkin-Smith puts this to rest in HYSTERA. Lilly is a student in... Read More »
Gypsy Escapades Kirkus Reviews reviews Gypsy Escapades by William Jackson An American graduate student in India teams up with an intelligence agent and others to prevent a crisis that could spark bloody chaos. When Jill Rothchild, an... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress by Michelle Richmond Remember this name: Michelle Richmond...impressive talent and emotional range...Richmond writes with grace, calm, a refreshing sense of playfulness Read More »