Published Reviews

Tertulia Magazine www.tertuliamagazine.com reviews DYING UNFINISHED by Maria Espinosa Maria Espinosa’s fourth novel Dying Unfinished can be easily misclassified as a prequel to Longing (Arte Publico, 1999). The same cast of characters plays out in... Read More »	Amazon reviews Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money by Christy Heady The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money shows that any numbskull can master personal finance. In this second edition, a father-and-daughter writing team... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater As a young child, freelance writer Chater learned from her parents that the reforms of Vatican II brought “the Smoke of Satan” into the Roman Catholic Church. Then... Read More »	Washington Post reviews Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman "The plot of Small Crimes is a thing of beauty: spare but ingeniously twisted and imbued with a glossy coating of black humor. Zeltserman takes up all the familiar... Read More »
Chicago Tribune reviews 14 by JT Ellison Fans of intelligently written, intricately crafted thrillers should definitely check out J.T. Ellison's latest Taylor Jackson novel, "14." This sequel to 2007's "... Read More »	CHICAGO TRIBUNE reviews TOROS & TORSOS by Craig McDonald "The second novel from Craig McDonald may be even more extraordinary than his critically acclaimed debut "Head Games," which was a 2008 Edgar Award finalist for... Read More »
Book Divas reviews The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King "In all honesty, The Dust of 100 Dogs can be summed up on one word: spectacular. I am not kidding when I say this novel blew my mind." Read More »	Foreign Service Journal reviews Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq by Robert Earle Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist’s Pursuit of Peace in Iraq Robert Earle, Naval Institute Press, 2008, $34.95, hardcover, 288 pages. This firsthand... Read More »
E!Online reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker Ovenman by Jeff Parker is a brilliant addition to the growing genre of serious slacker literature. Parker's When Thinfinger is a direct descendant of Ignatius J.... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Parker's hilarious debut introduces to the world pizza-slinging, skateboarding, tattooed anti-hero When Thinfinger.... the narrative is full of surprises, dark... Read More »

LibraryThing &c reviews Walking The Dog by Charles Davis “I got a copy through the Early Reviewers group, and raced through this while traveling over the weekend. It's a series of interconnected short stories set on the... Read More »	The Times Literary Supplement reviews The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot S. Mifflin An important and engrossing book, which reveals as much about the appetites and formulas of emerging mass culture as it does about tribal cultures in nineteenth-... Read More »
Four Rooms reviews Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey by Diana Raab Read More »	http://www.milorambles.com/2010/11/15/no-cry-for-help-by-grant-mckenzie-book-review/ reviews No Cry For Help by Grant McKenzie "One of the most frenetic, atmospheric and imaginative books I’ve read this year. “No Cry For Help” by Grant McKenzie is one of the quickest page turners I have... Read More »
Larissa's Reviews reviews Dreaming of the Wolf by Terry Spear So Awesome! This is exactly what i love the most about long term Paranormal Romance series, getting to revisit groups of... Read More »	Associated Press reviews BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD by Sean Chercover [Chercover's] varied life experiences no doubt contribute to the gritty romanticism with which he portrays both his characters and the Chicago streets they inhabit... Read More »
Booklist reviews JANEOLOGY by Karen Harrington From Booklist in the Feb 15 issue College professor Tom Nelson has it bad in the wake of a devastating tragedy: the death of his son at thehands of his own wife,... Read More »	Western New York Heritage magazine reviews Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier by Kevin H Siepel Kevin Siepel set himself the difficult task of transforming the journal entries into a biography and setting that personal story, in context, within the larger... Read More »
COUNSELLING TODAY, Newsletter of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors reviews THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to New Love by Gloria Lintermans The Healing Power of Love is a companion book to The Healing Power of Grief. It is a collection of stories about new loving relationships after the death of a... Read More »	The New York Observer reviews This One Is Mine by Maria Semple At the beginning of Maria Semple’s debut novel, This One Is Mine, multimillionaire L.A. music executive David Parry checks his brokerage account and finds it “up... Read More »