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Sweta Vikram on “Write Speak Play”
Carolyn Wilhelm reviews I Miss the Rain in Africa
Enlightening, emotional, eye-opening, extraordinary book The author was first offered Belize for her Peace Corps Volunteer work, but ended up going to the north of Uganda at the mere age of sixty-four. Brave is an understatement, and I cannot imagine a more difficult assignment (although there are many war-torn areas…
Carolyn Wilhelm reviews U.P. Reader #5
U.P. Reader — Volume #5: Bringing Upper Michigan Literature to the World Mikel Classen and Deborah K Frontiera Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com 9781615995714, $17.95 paperback, $28.95 hardcover, 308 pages B09253976L, $5.95 Kindle The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is also known as Upper Michigan or the UP, with people native to…
Carolyn Wilhelm reviews Carnival Lights
Title: Carnival Lights By: Chris Stark Publisher: Modern History Press Author Website: https://www.christinestark.com/ ISBN-10: 1615995781 ISBN-13: 978-1615995783 Price: Hardcover $37.95, Paperback $24.95, Kindle $6.95 Page Count: 268 Formats (HC, PB, Kindle) With good reason, two teens run away from a reservation and get jobs at the Minnesota State Fair. Although the…
Book Launch Virtual Event with Christine Stark and Mona Susan Power
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to A Book Launch Virtual Event with Christine Stark and her new book, Carnival Lights and Mona Susan Power and her new book, A Council of Dolls. Chris Stark is an award-winning writer, organizer, and researcher with Ojibwe, Cherokee, and European ancestry. Her…
R.B. Simon, author of THE GOOD TRUTH, and Chris Stark, author of CARNIVAL LIGHTS!
A Room of One’s Own welcomes local poet R.B. Simon, author of The Good Truth, and Lambda Literary Award finalist Chris Stark, author of Carnival Lights, for a virtual conversation on Crowdcast! “The Good Truth, the fiercely validating debut from R.B. Simon, is a blazing manifesto of claiming identities within…
Introducing Superior Tapestry
By Ernest Dempsey Historical fiction is not always about wars and dynasties or romance tales set in times of kings and knights. Sometimes it’s more about the story of a place seen through the eyes of characters. In Deborah K. Frontiera’s Superior Tapestry: Weaving the Threads of Upper Michigan History…
Mining Your LinkedIn Network with Sweta Vikram
Randi-Lee Bowslaugh reviews Yoga Cocaine by Daralyse Lyons
This is not the type of book I would normally pick up but I loved it and wanted to see how the main character’s life would end up. I am happy to say that I have not had to deal with drug addiction but I still felt a deep connection…
Reader Views reviews More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie
Reviewed by Jen Oliver-Rigsby for Reader Views (5/2021) “More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie” is a collection of stories from real EMS, ER, paramilitary and firefighter responders telling their sides of dealing with traumatic cases. The stories range from veterinary to medical to behavioral health trauma. Each story discusses how…
Up Bow, Down Bow – Official Book Trailer!
Meet the Author! Chris Stark reading from Carnival Lights, featuring dialogue with Julian Aguon
From 4-30-21, a virtual event featuring Anishinaabe author, activist and teacher Chris Stark, with comments and dialogue with Chamorro author, activist and attorney Julian Aguon, honoring the publication of Chris’ forthcoming novel, “Carnival Lights”, a novel about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. Co-sponsored by Repair & the UCLA American Indian…
Reader Views on More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie, 2nd Ed
www.readerviews.com Providing book by book publicity for Indie Authors since 2005. More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie: My Life as a Nurse Paramedic Sherry Jones Mayo Modern History Press (2021) ISBN: 9781615991419 Reviewed by Lily Andrews for Reader Views (04/2021) A thoughtful look at the lives of emergency service personnel…
Bob Rich reviews Compassion Michigan
Bob Rich reviews Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips
Review by professional editor Bob Rich, PhD Think of this little book Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers as an amusingly annotated dictionary of samples of likely word confusions. To expand: It is little (my apologies short; an illegitimate word substitution not in it): less than 60 pages. It…
LB Sedlacek reviews Septuagenarian
Creative Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World
*Time sensitive! Starting soon! Creative Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World an 8-week multi-genre creative writing class with Anya Achtenberg March 24 through May 12 For writers of fiction, memoir/creative nonfiction, poetry, essay, hybrid forms, for an extraordinary expansion of creativity in writing as one writes more…
Patricia Byrnes on the Donna Seebo Show
On March 2nd, 2021, The Donna Seebo Show hosted Patricia Byrnes to talk about her memoir “TRISH“. Patricia Byrnes’s life began with being reared by deaf parents during an era when the deaf community was shunned rather than supported. Poverty, alcoholism, incest and poor parenting were the underpinnings of Patricia’s…
Reader Views on “The Great First Impression Book Proposal” by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Reviewed by Chelsy Scherba for Reader Views (02/2021) Carolyn Howard-Johnson helps writers tackle the most challenging step to becoming a published author: the book proposal. “The Great First Impressions Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book to an Agent or Publisher in Thirty Minutes or Less”…