where the writers are

Published Reviews

BP Cover.gif
Publishers Weekly reviews
The story fascinates even as it repels.
Read More »
BP Cover.gif
Heat (UK) reviews
And now for something completely different…If you're tired of fluffy chick lit and fancy a trip to the dark side, the debut novel from poet Martha O'Connor is a...
Read More »
BP Cover.gif
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer reviews
O'Connor nails the intense, us-against-the-world, overcooked emotion that defines the friendship of teen girls and the druggy delirium of first, sexual love. She...
Read More »
BP Cover.gif
Cosmopolitan reviews
A sizzling page-turner.
Read More »
BP Cover.gif
The Newark Star Ledger reviews
You have now entered a Chick-Lit-Free Zone,' warns this debut novel on Page 1. And it's true: There's nothing pink and frilly about this tale of three high-school...
Read More »
BP Cover.gif
Tatler (UK) reviews
Don't disbelieve the hype. [The Bitch Posse] is good a debut as it's cracked up to be... It's edgy, smart and sexy, like its heroines... What could have been just...
Read More »
BP Cover.gif
The Chicago Tribune reviews
The Bitch Posse is a riveting and emotionally charged read. No fluff here.
Read More »
BP Cover.gif
Marie Claire (UK) reviews
An angsty, serious novel of lost dreams and sexual damage.
Read More »
BP Cover.gif
Washington Post Book World reviews
The Bitch Posse is compulsively readable because things just keep getting worse for these girls... O'Connor scatters delicious and slightly macabre details of the...
Read More »
New Slain Knight
Green Man Review reviews
New Slain Knight is set in Cornwall, same setting as Charles de Lint's The Little Country, a place haunted by a long and misty past of history and myth where time...
Read More »
Breaking Out of Bedlam
Boston Globe reviews
“Leslie Larson gives an 82-year-old assisted living resident an unforgettable voice: caustic, profane, searingly honest….Cora Sledge is an unlikely heroine. She’s...
Read More »
BLOOD STRANGERS: a memoir
Edge reviews
impressive memoir...this book, "quiet" by industry standards, is more gripping than most big press memoirs that are efficiently marketable with the one-line blurb...
Read More »
The Flag Keeper
Good Family Reads reviews
A very easy to read format, a few long words that are very well explained will not only entertain but teach kids of all ages. I was very happy that the Flag Facts...
Read More »
DreamingWolf_R4 1.jpg
Darhk Portal reviews
Okay,  apparently the book gods saw me in my distress over my dilema with the less than hotness level in the recent books...
Read More »
Eating Steve
Playback: STL reviews
Eating Steve is certainly the sweetest little zombie book I've ever read. Schmidt tells a very realistic coming of age story while using the idea of a zombie and a...
Read More »
woodsburner.jpg
San Francisco Chronicle reviews
In Texas writer John Pipkin's excellent debut novel, "Woodsburner," the hardware store owner in 19th century Concord, Mass., points out the town eccentric and...
Read More »
Mantids, a new novel by Ron Dakron
Midwest Book Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 reviews
Insects were never thought of by anyone as 'sexy'. "Mantids" takes a look into the love life of the mantis, and a certain male of the species who can't seem to get...
Read More »
A Dangerous Man: gritty gay fiction from Anne Brooke
Chroma Journal reviews
Read More »
SPLASH!
School Library Journal reviews
VAN LIESHOUT, Maria. Splash!: A Little Book About Bouncing Back. illus. by author. unpaged. Feiwel & Friends. 2008. Tr $12.95. ISBN 978-0-312-36914-9. LC...
Read More »
Deidre's Secret
Long and Short Romance Reviews reviews
Deidre's premonitions are her gift, as well as her secret; because just how uncool is it to have visions? In Deidre's Secret, our heroine's second sight becomes...
Read More »