A spotlight on WEATHER WOMAN and SINKING ISLANDS by Eugene Weekly’s Slant column!
Date: September 7, 2021
News & Reviews
News:
Jennifer Risher talks about her book WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH and her #HalfMyDAF challenge in a Q&A with the National Center for Family Philanthropy
Date: September 7, 2021
Jen Risher is the author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth, and co-founded the #HalfMyDAF initiative in response to the pandemic. In this blog, Jen shares her […]
Ellen Meeropol writes about Cai Emmons’ astonishing journey after ALS diagnosis
Date: September 7, 2021
Novelists are, by definition, imaginative people, but there are a limited number of ways to promote a new novel. We rely primarily on readings and events to transform our words […]
“A LITTLE ARRHYTHMIC BLIP”: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Features an Excerpt from Beth Gilstrap’s DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES
Date: September 1, 2021
Today, we’re pleased to present an excerpt from Beth Gilstrap’s forthcoming collection Deadheading and Other Stories. Set in the Carolinas, Gilstrap’s fiction explores questions of gender, class, and geography, offering […]
Jaye Viner Interviewed by Authors Answer
Date: September 1, 2021
Born a missionary kid in Kobe, Japan, and homeschooled on the American Great Plains as part of an evangelical community, Jaye Viner straddles many worlds and too many personal interests. […]
Character Interview: Jane from JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner Provides Interview
Date: September 1, 2021
Jane is a Los Angeles nurse who grew up in a Christian cult that puts celebrities on trial for their sins. Daniel is a has-been actor whose career ended when […]
Jaye Viner Features Novel JANE OF BATTERY PARK in Crime Reads Listicle “8 Thrillers About Women Breaking Free and Taking Charge”
Date: September 1, 2021
In storytelling, we are in the middle of what I call the ‘age of the “strong woman” character’. If asked, probably everyone has a slightly different idea of what exactly […]
Crime Reads Lists Jaye Viner’s JANE OF BATTERY PARK for 10 Books Coming Out This Week!
Date: September 1, 2021
Crime Reads posted their picks for what books to look out for on their publication date, and add to their TBR pile!
The Writer’s Almanac features Kim Dower’s Poem from A SLICE OF MOON
Date: September 1, 2021
“…and that’s only the beginning. I hear other junk food is at risk: brownies, pastries, name it, they’re removing it, the only chance fifth graders have at happiness.”
Pittsburgh City Paper features M. Soledad Caballero, author of I WAS A BELL
Date: September 1, 2021
“Calling America home comes with its own host of terrors for immigrants, especially those fleeing their countries of origin. From being referred to with often derogatory terminology to having to […]
Reviews:
Joanne Skerrett’s ISLAND MAN featured in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: June 22, 2023
A man revisits his unconventional relationship with his father. This book begins in the wake of loss as narrator Hector Peterson points out that he and his father, Winston Telemacque, […]
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND reviewed by Colorado State University
Date: June 12, 2023
Many of the poems in Bell’s second full-length book explore suffering and sadness through a very personal lens: terrifying moments of objectification and sexual violation; the desolation and isolation that […]
Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER featured in Soapberry Review
Date: June 6, 2023
In this work of poetry, Vuong unbinds what gets lost while carrying the aftermath from Vietnamese voices that have been longing to breathe after the disruption from wars, migration, and […]
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason featured in Review 31
Date: June 6, 2023
A strong poetic sensibility is combined with a successful conversational style in several insightful accounts of familiar situations, like seeing people in airports that one thinks one knows (‘Long Haul’), […]
The Seattle Times recommends Amber Flame’s APOCRIFA among ‘5 new books from LGBTQ+ authors to read this Pride month’!
Date: June 6, 2023
As we enter another Pride month, it feels as though 2023 has been one of the toughest legislative years for LGBTQ+ folks in a long time. As we witness and […]
Peninsula Clarion’s Off the Shelf recommends H Warren’s BINDED!
Date: June 6, 2023
I’ve always found poetry a bit intimidating. Sometimes I think I know where one is going, then out of nowhere I’m thrown for a loop and left puzzled with a […]
Kirkus Reviews features Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS!
Date: June 5, 2023
The illegitimate daughter of a white mother and a Jordanian father, Halaby, author of two novels and two collections of poetry, felt that she was a “fiction…squished between other people’s […]
Ann Poore reviews Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES for 15 Bytes!
Date: June 1, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by Katharine Coles – who might be a witch (IMHO) given the ready way she connects with animals (including her parrot Henri, pronounced […]
VerseCurious reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: June 1, 2023
I review Phuong T. Vuong’s A Plucked Zither, from Red Hen Press (June 6, 2023). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/versecurious/donations
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND receives a Starred Review from Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 23, 2023
Francesca Bell (Bright Stain) writes poems that chime like the bell of her own name: bright but resonant, sharp but still familiar, lush and likely to echo long after its […]