Published Reviews

Sunset Magazine reviews Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas R Keister Keister has done for cemetery exploration what Audubon did for birding. Read More »	Absinthe Literary Review reviews below the low-water mark by Ryan Masters below the low-water markRyan MastersPudding House PublicationsJohnstown, OH29 pp. $8.95 Seawater runs through Ryan Masters new chapbook below the low-... Read More »
Children's Literature reviews Mouth Moths, More Classroom Tales by Douglas Evans Kids and teachers alike will recognize most (if not all) of the students starring in each chapter of this funny collection of classroom tales. ...Funny and easy to... Read More »	$math.gif$ Book List reviews Math Rashes, and Other Classroom Tales by Douglas Evans Gr. 2-4. Homework makes no sense to Hari. Consequently, he eagerly trades one of his five senses to a gnome for doing his lessons. That arrangement works well--... Read More »
Monterey County Weekly reviews The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets by Ryan Masters Masters put out a call for poetry and got 800 submissions. Of those, he took almost a hundred, and with Aptos-based publisher Susana “Suki” Wessling, of Chatoyant... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans From Kirkus Reviews: An endearingly eccentric family settles into the elevator and hearts of the patrons and employees at the San Francisco Hotel in this over-the-... Read More »
Book List reviews MVP: Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans BOOKLIST, Dec. 1, 2004Adam Story longs to see the world, but he never imagines he will get the chance. Then, on his twelfth birthday, a mysterious stranger, Prince... Read More »	New York Times Book Review reviews Classroom at the End of the Hall by Douglas Evans From New York Times Book Review: The custodian at the W.T. Melon Elementary School tells some tall tales about ghosts and mischief in the building ... believe them... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Classroom at the End of the Hall by Douglas Evans Starred review*--Peculiar happenings are the norm in the classroom that serves as the setting for this droll collection. Occasionally reminiscent of Louis Sachar’... Read More »	Pacific Church News reviews Write For Life: Healing Body, Mind and Spirit Through Journal Writing by Sheppard B. Kominars Read More »

Gather reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear To Tempt the Wolf, Terry Spear’s newest entry in her werewolves series, fulfils all expectations. Only Terry could create such a completely believable world, with... Read More »	EW, PW, The Independent reviews A Richer Dust by amy l. boaz “Based loosely on D.H. Lawrence's 1924 pilgrimage to Taos, N.M., where he hoped to create an artists' utopia, Amy Boaz's diamond-cut debut, A Richer Dust, follows... Read More »
Moms for Books reviews Legend of the White Wolf by Terry Spear Legend of the White Wolf is not your typical romance novel, even though it starts out to be one. This is what is called an "Urban Fantasy" and it definitely... Read More »	Sia McKye's Thoughts...OVER COFFEE reviews Legend of the White Wolf by Terry Spear Anyone who knows me, knows I love animals. God knows, I have enough of them, including the privilege of having had Micah, a grey wolf, from pup to death (12 years... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler "clever, funny story...with excitement, suspense, and delightfully good humor." Read More »	The Guardian reviews Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler "highly diverting" Read More »
School Library Journal reviews An Apple Pie For Dinner by Susan VanHecke Told with folkloric flair, this scrumptious tale is perfect for reading aloud to a broad range of ages… Every library will want a copy. Read More »	Livejournal book reviews reviews Painting from Life by Anne Brooke Painting from Life is a story of obsession, like it should be when you are talking of art, since only a work born from an artist who suffered to create it is... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Chicago Sun-Times reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Jeffrey Zaslow's name is familiar to lots of Sun-Times readers. From 1987 to 2001, he wrote a column that more or less replaced legendary advice giver Ann Landers... Read More »	The Girls From Ames BARNES & NOBLE Review reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow What's so special about the 11 women who grew up together in Ames, Iowa, who are the subject of Jeffrey Zaslow's The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-... Read More »