Category: Books & Reading

Today, I’m one of the stops on the virtual book tour for Parable of the Brown Girl by Khristi Lauren Adams. I’ll be sharing an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book. Celebrate the Brown Girl and All Her Complexities! Youth Advocate and Minister Gathers Personal and Insightful Stories about…

Aurea Mediocritas: A Book of Short Stories Short Stories Date Published October 2019 Publisher: Page Publishing The term, Aurea Mediocritas, refers to the golden mean, a balance between two extremes. ­ e characters in “Queerious”, faced with insurmountable odds in a society unaccepting of same-sex relationships and the hidden secrets…

Where did you grow up/live now?I was a shy, nerdy girl who was too smart — and, as the daughter of immigrants from Chile and the Philippines, a complete oddity in the Indiana town where I grew up. So I left early and headed for college in California. Then I…

Abbigail Rosewood’s debut novel, If I Had Two Lives, has earned impressive early reviews from media including The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review of Books and Foreword Reviews, follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life as an immigrant in the United States – and…

Jordan Zucker’s debut cookbook, One Dish – Four Seasons: Food, Wine, and Sound – All Year Round is a fun resource for home chefs. Zucker takes a single, base recipe, then varies it seasonally based upon which ingredients are available. Each dish has four variations, and is paired with a…

In Confessions of a Plastic Surgeon, Thomas T. Jeneby, M.D., or “Dr. J.,” takes readers behind the scenes of his successful plastic surgery practice and tells all, everything you want to know about plastic surgery and few things you’d rather not know (or see – there are photos). Not only…

Kelly Watt, award-winning short story author, has a new novel, Mad Dog. Her stories have been published internationally, anthologized, and longlisted for CBC Radio’s Short Fiction Contest in both 2015 and 2017. Recently, Ms. Watt answered some questions to share with readers of this blog. Mad Dog tells the story…

There are two worlds in Dorothea Benton Frank’s By Invitation Only: The world of a young married couple and the world of a well-to do family and the worlds of a South Carolina Peach Farm and a high society area of Chicago. Diane and Susan’s children are marrying, but they…