Published Reviews

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind reviews All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison So we come to the last of the Killer Year debut authors with a book out, and J.T. Ellison makes her mark right away. Taylor Jackson and John Baldwin have a... Read More »	Library Journal reviews All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison With this debut thriller, Ellison puts her mentoring by Lee Child to good use. A serial killer named the Southern Strangler is making the rounds of several... Read More »
BookPage reviews All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison Taylor Jackson and Whitney Connolly are two sides of the same coin. While both are beautiful blondes from the wealthy Nashville neighborhood of Belle Meade, the... Read More »	TIME Magazine Europe reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Thus begins Dan's career in journalism — and Geling Yan's shark-fin-sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China. Read More »
The Guardian (UK) reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Isabel Hilton is entertained by Geling Yan's satirical take on contemporary China... ...Yan is not nostalgic for the years of socialism: her earlier work has been... Read More »	The New York Times reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Yan's use of shifting perspectives -- including that of the narrator herself, who confesses her ''surprise'' at the unpredictable behavior of her imagined... Read More »
New York Times reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Geling Yan’s sly comic novel about the excesses — culinary and otherwise — of modern life in the Chinese capital... Although it may seem fantastical, her fiction... Read More »	The Economist reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan There is no single authentic voice of Chinese fiction. And that may very well be a good thing. ONE clear fact emerged from the controversy over Gao... Read More »
Contemporary Literature - Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2006, pp. 570-600 reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Although the name Yan Geling may mean very little to U.S.-based academics, Yan is often commended by scholars in mainland China and Taiwan as one of the most... Read More »	City Pages reviews White Snake and Other Stories by Geling Yan In Yan's stories it is the small kindness, the brief, tender moment, that surmounts the walls. At these times her characters, no matter how recalcitrant, breathe... Read More »

Daily Variety - Bags and Boards reviews Egg Story by J Marc Schmidt "Schmidt, an Australian creating his first comics work, has created a sweet, silly and funny story about growing up. His art is simple (eggs with smiley faces) and... 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 »
The Dallas Morning News reviews Woodsburner by John Pipkin In September 2003, Harper's magazine ran a "Harper's Index" item that read: "Estimated acres of forest Henry David Thoreau burned down in 1844 trying to cook fish... Read More »	North Shore Outlook reviews Fierce by Hannah Holborn "the collection of varied tales (has) tragedy and violent drama crackling with comedic noir and irony that borders tenderly-spun farce." Read More »
The Actuary magazin reviews Restitution by Eliza Graham Restitution is set mainly in the Second World War and follows Alix, an aristocratic young girl, on a journey of love and betrayal. It has all you would want in a... Read More »	Darque Reviews reviews Destiny of the Wolf by Terry Spear Destiny of the Wolf follows Lelandi’s search for answers in the death of her sister Larissa. With a heavy dose of suspense, Ms. Spear weaves a romantic paranormal... Read More »
Gather reviews Destiny of the Wolf by Terry Spear Terry Spear’s wolves are neither wild not tame. They live in small towns, keeping their identity secret from their human friends, running hospitals, schools,... 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 »
Self-Publishing Review reviews The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks The Brightest Moon of the Century follows Edward from childhood, soon after his mother died, through high school and sullen adolescence, to college alienation and... 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 »