Published Reviews

asianconnections.com reviews Buddha Baby by Kim Wong Keltner Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Dim Sum of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner Read More »
South China Morning Post reviews Buddha Baby by Kim Wong Keltner FOR YEARS KIM Wong Keltner cruised bookshops, looking for contemporary fiction featuring heroines with whose experiences she could identify. She saw countless... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews New Slain Knight: The Haunted Ballad Series by Deborah Grabien A summer holiday in glorious Cornwall turns into a ghost-plagued nightmare. Talented musician Ringan Laine and his theatrical producer and longtime lover Penny... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Still Life With Devils by Deborah Grabien Still Life with Devils Deborah Grabien. Drollerie (Ingram, dist.), $15.95 paper (218p) ISBN 978-0-9798-0810- 4 Grabien (New-Slain Knight) turns to supernatural... Read More »	The New Yorker reviews The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings Hemmings channels the voice of her befuddled middle-aged hero with virtuosity... Read More »
The Guardian reviews The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings Kaui Hart Hemmings's first novel manages to both be shockingly irreverent and funny while exerting that all-important emotional tug. Read More »	BookPage reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Kathi Kamen Goldmark has written a fast-paced, wisecracking debut novel that takes readers on the road and backstage for an intimate look at the country music... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Goldmark takes an offbeat spin through the world of country music in her charming debut...the combination of Goldmark's playful humor, her smooth prose style and... Read More »	The Christian Science Monitor reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary On Sept.12, Tamim Ansary, an Afghan American who lives in the Bay Area, listened with dismay as men and women phoned in to a talk radio show, calling for the US to... Read More »

San Francisco Chronicle reviews Woodsburner by John Pipkin 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 »	Midwest Book Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 reviews Mantids by Ron Dakron 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 »
School Library Journal reviews SPLASH A Little Book About Bouncing Back by Maria S van Lieshout 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 »	The Romance Studio reviews DANCING WITH FATE by Hywela Lyn Terpsichore/Cora fell in lust at first site with Myrddin, loved him more for saving her from the Ellylldan/Goblin fire. Seems her half brother Ares, the god of war... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Saving Angelfish by Michele Matheson Matheson's promising debut, a gritty novel from Tin House Books' New Voice Series, tells the bleak story of a wayward L.A. junkie named Max. Virtually disowned by... Read More »	Armchair Interviews reviews Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai Author Kirsten Imani Kasai has created a rich world in her first book Ice Song. I found myself mesmerized by the genetic mutations that have changed the world, and... Read More »
Mark Kramer, Founding Director and Writer-in-Residence, Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism, Harv reviews Forgetting English: Stories by Midge Raymond “Midge Raymond turns her elegant, austere sentences precisely, forcing unmediated, intimate connection with readers of her exotic tales. It's nothing short of... Read More »	About.com: Special Needs Children reviews Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter by Robert C. Rummel-Hudson "This memoir, full of fear and rage and disappointment and acceptance and advocacy and ferocious love, offers plenty of touchstones for parents who have dealt with... Read More »
HARDBOILED WONDERLAND reviews ROGUE MALES: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life by Craig McDonald "We feel we’re hanging out backstage with the bands while they compare notes on clubs, groupies and record companies. His return subjects, James Ellroy, Ken Bruen... Read More »	Tifferz Book Review reviews The Commander's Desire by Jennette Green Tifferz Take: This is an excellent read. I highly recommend this book. Green put in some surprises for the reader. I like Elwytha and I found myself falling for... Read More »