Published Reviews

New York Times Book Review reviews Music Through the Floor by Eric Puchner How exhilarating to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner…The nine stories in his debut collection are…... Read More »	http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/32/725/critical_praise.html reviews Flash House by Aimee Liu "Set in tumultuous post-WWII Asia, Liu's third novel is an espionage thriller that traces a woman's efforts to find her husband after he disappears into the... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Cloud Mountain by Aimee Liu Warner Books, which has been highly successful with such bittersweet romances as Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County and Nicholas Sparks's The... Read More »	The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol. 297 No. 18, pp. 1955-2044 reviews Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu With uninhibited truthfulness Aimee Liu reveals incidents in her own life which propelled her into anorexia... She believes the greatest asset any of us possess is... Read More »
PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books reviews Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu Liu's book, Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, immediately grabbed our attention because it focuses on life after a person overcomes an eating... Read More »	For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance Story Circle Book Reviews reviews For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance by Aimee Liu For Keeps is not an easy book to read. It is not about pretty women with perfect bodies who find easy acceptance in a beauty-obsessed culture. No. It is an... Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews It's My F---king Birthday by Merrill Markoe "Funny in a sly, true, painful way." Read More »	The New York Times reviews What the Dogs Have Taught Me by Merrill Markoe Merrill Markoe has a keen eye for the little lunacies of modern living. Hers is a special talent, desperately needed these days. Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel by Merrill Markoe There was a time when Merrill Markoe worried that Stupid Pet Tricks, the goofy segment she created for “Late Night With David Letterman,” would be the sum total of... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond A complex and nimbly fashioned first novel. Read More »

Publisher's Weekly reviews Every Little Thing In The World by Nina de Gramont Sixteen-year-old Sydney has just learned that a casual fling has left her pregnant (“I hadn't felt like I knew him well enough to remind him about the condom issue... Read More »	AOL's Gadling Travel reviews The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India by Shelley Seale Author Shelley Seale’s discovery of this human tragedy led her life in a whole new direction, and it is this that gives the book its impetus. Besides her personal... Read More »
News Bureau, University of Illinois reviews The Fall of Augustus by Sarah U. Wisseman "Wisseman teaches an anthropology course and is director of the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials at the University of Illinois. And... Read More »	BC Blogcritics reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild The idealist in me wasn’t entirely certain that our society needed even a tongue-in-cheek primer on how to end a marriage. Yet, if one looks objectively at the... Read More »
Kim Hess Divorce Guru Turning Challenges into Triumphs reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild Many people have told me I seem really cheery for a divorced person. Why wouldn’t I? Divorce has treated me well. It was being unhappily married that made me... Read More »	Baltimore City Paper reviews Baked by former member Los Angeles crime novelist Mark Haskell Smith has always harbored a comically ludicrous streak. From his 2002 debut Moist (in which a tattoo on a woman’s severed... Read More »
East Bay Express reviews Some, like elephants by Laura Glen Louis "She prefers to write in bed, but the beds in which Laura Glen Louis dreamed up the lines in her haunting debut poetry collection 'Some, like elephants'; her 2001... Read More »	Being Alison reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera Right from the start of the book you will be on the edge of your seat. It’s filled with surprises, energy and great dynamic. Henry describes location and fight... Read More »
Amazon.com reviews The Dance of the Pheasodile by Tim Hewtson le Roux I won't go into the plot here, others have already done that. What I will say is I really enjoyed reading this. I was there with Keith trying to deal with his... Read More »	Missio Amazon.com reviews Missio by Tim Hewtson le Roux "I have become a bit obsessive about how many Hull trawlers went down over the years. They say that it was more dangerous to be a trawlerman than a miner." So... Read More »