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Oct 2, 2021

Wagon trains west: Marjorie Thelen’s Wings of the Dawn, a novel of mixed-race women on a journey to California

Nicole Duval is a high-class lady with a past. She is octaroon — a woman of one eighth negro blood — in New Orleans of 1853. She gains her freedom from slavery, sells out, and heads west to escape her past and the threat of being re-enslaved. In Independence, Missouri…

Westward Expansion

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Wagon trains west: Marjorie Thelen’s Wings of the Dawn, a novel of mixed-race women on a journey…
Wagon trains west: Marjorie Thelen’s Wings of the Dawn, a novel of mixed-race women on a journey…
Westward Expansion

8 min read


Sep 25, 2021

Don Van Landingham’s Corruptacy

What inspired you to write this book? People in general and the news media have long looked on accountants as humans without feelings, wearing eye shades and being parasites on society. When, finally, there was a movie and a book about accountants (The Accountant) he was featured as having a…

New Book Release

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Don Van Landingham’s Corruptacy
Don Van Landingham’s Corruptacy
New Book Release

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Jul 29, 2021

Modern, queer, politically savvy Where The Vile Things Are: Marcus James’ new take on classic French novel Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Set against the backdrop of San Francisco during the presidential elections, we follow Nathan Valmont and Oliver Merteuil as they set out on their respective paths of conquest and revenge in this daring and imaginatively faithful but no-less transgressive adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ iconic epistle; Les Liaisons Dangereuses. …

LGBT

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Modern, queer, politically savvy Where The Vile Things Are: Marcus James’ new take on classic…
Modern, queer, politically savvy Where The Vile Things Are: Marcus James’ new take on classic…
LGBT

26 min read


Jun 21, 2021

Let us (not) make a bond of love: Jennifer Militello’s The Pact

In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and the reptile house of a local zoo, poems comparing a romantic affair to the religious cult at Jonestown and a mother’s…

New Poetry

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Let us (not) make a bond of love: Jennifer Militello’s The Pact
Let us (not) make a bond of love: Jennifer Militello’s The Pact
New Poetry

7 min read


Jun 17, 2021

Jenny Dalton’s Of Butterflies and Bullies: Nostalgia, frenemies and confidence

Jenny Dalton was born in 1970 and grew up in Indianapolis, IN. She earned a B.A. in English Literature and History from Indiana University-Bloomington and since graduation, she has earned post-graduate certificates in several fields of interest. She is curious and often transforms her life in various ways. Jenny has…

Girls

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Jenny Dalton’s Of Butterflies and Bullies: Nostalgia, frenemies and confidence
Jenny Dalton’s Of Butterflies and Bullies: Nostalgia, frenemies and confidence
Girls

9 min read


May 11, 2021

A poet and musician processes history: Ken Waldman’s Trump Sonnets

Ken Waldman combines Appalachian-style string-band music, original poetry, and Alaska-set storytelling for a performance uniquely his. Nine CDs include two for for children. Eighteen books include a kids’ book, a memoir (about his life as a touring artist), fifteen full-length poetry collections, and a hybrid book that’s part creative writing…

Donald Trump

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A poet and musician processes history: Ken Waldman’s Trump Sonnets
A poet and musician processes history: Ken Waldman’s Trump Sonnets
Donald Trump

8 min read


May 4, 2021

Shawn Rubenfeld’s The Eggplant Curse and the Warp Zone

Failed academic Joshua Schulman is in a bad way. Grieving his mother’s death and the end of his marriage, he turns his avocation of retro video game collecting into a full-blown addiction. When a prep school in Eastern Iowa recruits him for a teaching job on the strength of a…

New Book Release

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Shawn Rubenfeld’s The Eggplant Curse and the Warp Zone
Shawn Rubenfeld’s The Eggplant Curse and the Warp Zone
New Book Release

4 min read


Apr 28, 2021

Diane Brazil’s Shadow Valley

Diane Brazil is a seasoned technology and business journalist and author of Shadow Valley, a novel inspired by real events and real people that tells the story of how the technology industry became “un-unionizable.” Here’s an interview with her about Shadow Valley: How realistic is this story? Is this really…

Silicon Valley

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Diane Brazil’s Shadow Valley
Diane Brazil’s Shadow Valley
Silicon Valley

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Apr 26, 2021

Ron Blumenfeld’s historical mystery The King’s Anatomist

“In his imaginatively woven historical mystery, Ron Blumenfeld explores the life of the pioneering anatomist Andreas Vesalius amidst the turbulence of 16th-century Europe. Readers will enjoy a finely-tuned story infused with doses of Renaissance anatomy and art that highlight the groundbreaking achievements of Andreas Vesalius in these two linked disciplines…

Renaissance

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Ron Blumenfeld’s historical mystery The King’s Anatomist
Ron Blumenfeld’s historical mystery The King’s Anatomist
Renaissance

4 min read


Apr 24, 2021

Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories: Greg Roensch’s digestible flash fiction tales

Greg Roensch’s flash fiction has appeared in Dream Noir, 365 Tomorrows, Defiant Scribe, Potato Soup Journal, The Potrero View, and elsewhere. He’s written five books for young adults, including biographies of Bruce Lee, Vince Lombardi, and Rickey Henderson. Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories is his second…

Flash Fiction

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Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories: Greg Roensch’s digestible flash fiction tales
Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories: Greg Roensch’s digestible flash fiction tales
Flash Fiction

4 min read

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Lois Lane Investigates Authors

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