Category: Book Reviews
The Writing/Publishing Shelf reviews “Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers”
The Writing/Publishing Shelf Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers Carolyn Howard-Johnson Modern History Press 5145 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 www.lovinghealing.com Synopsis: In “Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers: The Ultimate Frugal Reference Guide for Avoiding Word Trippers and Crafting Gatekeeper-Perfect Copy”, book publicist, journalist, marketer, editor,…
Poets & Writers honors HOW DARE WE! WRITE by Sherry Quan Lee
How Dare We! Write: A multicultural creative writing discourse edited by Sherry Quan Lee was named a “Best Books for Writers” entry by Poets & Writers online magazine! This collection of essays about writing and navigating the literary world by writers of color—including Sherrie Fernandez Williams, Marline Gonzalez, Ching-In Chen,…
Tom Powers / Michigan in Books Review of U.P. Reader #4
Midwest Book Review on Up, Not Down Syndrome
Julie Summers’ Bookshelf Up, Not Down Syndrome Nancy M. Schwartz Modern History Press 9781615994632, $32.95, HC, 124pp, Synopsis: Up, Not Down Syndrome: Uplifting Lessons Learned from Raising a Son with Trisomy 21 by Nancy M. Schwartz candidly reveals to the reader the experience what it feels like to think your…
Reader Views reviews Up, Not Down Syndrome
Nancy M. Schwartz Modern History Press (2020) ISBN 9781615994625 Reviewed by Tammy Ruggles for Reader Views (05/20) “Up, Not Down Syndrome: Uplifting Lessons Learned from Raising a Son With Trisomy 21“, by Nancy Schwartz, is part memoir, part self-help, and is a book that chronicles how her world changed the…
Laurie Zelinger reviews From Depression to Contentment
In From Depression to Contentment, Dr. Bob combines his knowledge of psychology, religion, and professional clinical experience to provide the reader with a down-to-earth explanation of emotional and psychiatric disorders. His candid revelation and description of his own personal emotional struggles humanizes him so that the reader almost feels they…
Reader Views reviews Points North by Mikel Classen
Mikel B. Classen Modern History Press (2019) ISBN 9781615994908 Reviewed by Robert Leon Davis for Reader Views (04/2020) Mikel B. Classen is an explorer and adventurist specializing in exploring many places in the United States, with a specialty of visiting locales in the Michigan Upper Peninsula area. He’s visited ghost…
ReaderViews reviews Are You Rugged?
Rugged Dude Carson Modern History Press (2019) ISBN 9781615994533 Reviewed by Rachel Dehning for Reader Views (04/2020) “Are You Rugged or Unrugged?” by Rugged Dude Carson is a humorous book which includes scenarios in which you are judged as either rugged or unrugged (according to Rugged Dude Carson). Examples of…
Tom Powers reviews Points North
Points North: Discover Hidden Campgrounds, Natural Wonders, and Waterways of the Upper Peninsula by Mikel B. Classen Review by Tom Powers, Michigan in Books Yes, yet another travel guide to the Upper Peninsula, and if you’re tempted to dismiss it and say enough already, you would be wrong. This is…
Midwest Book Review features Yoga Cocaine
Tyla Taylor’s Bookshelf Yoga Cocaine Daralyse Lyons Modern History Press 9781615994854, $19.95, hardcover, 240 pages 9781615994847, paperback A powerful journey of transformation and personal evolution! Jessica is an incredible character with a powerful story. Following her journey tugged at my heart and although the subjects addressed (addiction, relapse, recovery, trauma)…
Midwest Book Review features Points North
Read the full review on Midwest Book Review blog Profusely illustrated, impressively informative, ideal for planning all manner of day trips, weekend adventures, and vacation itineraries, “Points North: Discover Hidden Campgrounds, Natural Wonders, and Waterways of the Upper Peninsula” is unreservedly recommended for personal, family, and community library Travel Guide…
Seattle Book Review features Points North
Rosi Hollinbeck from Seattle Book Review reviews Points North: “…Who needs cities when one can find an abundance of parks, museums, ghost towns, wilderness areas, hiking trails, rivers, lighthouses, and more. This wonderful book has forty destinations, each with a write-up of two to five pages that includes beautiful full-color…
Tulsa Book Review features Yoga Cocaine
Alice Berger reviews Writing For Bliss
Broadstreet Review on Yoga Cocaine
Kyle V. Hiller writes: Yoga Cocaine is an abyssal dive into imperfect meditation, spirituality as a means to recovery and self-definition, and finding the humility to reconcile strained, compromised relationships. Jessica’s unabashed rawness is both dispiriting and rewarding, honest and diverting—it’s human. I enjoyed watching her transformation unfold, even if…
Qualitative Review of How Dare We! Write
This book is a collection of stories that writers of color and LGBTQAI+ writers have experienced and are still experiencing as writers in a literary world where their voices are silenced,and their experiences are not represented. The 24 stories written in the book are interconnected, and each story shows challenges…
MyShelf review of Frugal Book Promoter
From the author’s popular “How to Do It Frugally Series,” comes this third edition of The Frugal Book Promoter, a nonfiction guide to getting no-and-low-cost publicity. As the publishing industry has changed over the years—primarily because of the internet—each new edition provides updates accordingly. This latest version of the first…
Fran Lewis reviews Yoga Cocaine
The Compulsive Reader reviews Frugal Book Promoter 3rd Ed
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball The Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher 3rd Edition By Carolyn Howard-Johnson Modern History Press 2019, ISBN: 9781615994700, I first read, and reviewed Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s The Frugal Book Promoter in 2011, when the first edition…
The Writing/Publishing Shelf reviews “Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers”

The Writing/Publishing Shelf Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers Carolyn Howard-Johnson Modern History Press 5145 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 www.lovinghealing.com Synopsis: In “Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers: The Ultimate Frugal Reference Guide for Avoiding Word Trippers and Crafting Gatekeeper-Perfect Copy”, book publicist, journalist, marketer, editor,…
Poets & Writers honors HOW DARE WE! WRITE by Sherry Quan Lee

How Dare We! Write: A multicultural creative writing discourse edited by Sherry Quan Lee was named a “Best Books for Writers” entry by Poets & Writers online magazine! This collection of essays about writing and navigating the literary world by writers of color—including Sherrie Fernandez Williams, Marline Gonzalez, Ching-In Chen,…
Tom Powers / Michigan in Books Review of U.P. Reader #4
Midwest Book Review on Up, Not Down Syndrome

Julie Summers’ Bookshelf Up, Not Down Syndrome Nancy M. Schwartz Modern History Press 9781615994632, $32.95, HC, 124pp, Synopsis: Up, Not Down Syndrome: Uplifting Lessons Learned from Raising a Son with Trisomy 21 by Nancy M. Schwartz candidly reveals to the reader the experience what it feels like to think your…
Reader Views reviews Up, Not Down Syndrome

Nancy M. Schwartz Modern History Press (2020) ISBN 9781615994625 Reviewed by Tammy Ruggles for Reader Views (05/20) “Up, Not Down Syndrome: Uplifting Lessons Learned from Raising a Son With Trisomy 21“, by Nancy Schwartz, is part memoir, part self-help, and is a book that chronicles how her world changed the…
Laurie Zelinger reviews From Depression to Contentment

In From Depression to Contentment, Dr. Bob combines his knowledge of psychology, religion, and professional clinical experience to provide the reader with a down-to-earth explanation of emotional and psychiatric disorders. His candid revelation and description of his own personal emotional struggles humanizes him so that the reader almost feels they…
Reader Views reviews Points North by Mikel Classen

Mikel B. Classen Modern History Press (2019) ISBN 9781615994908 Reviewed by Robert Leon Davis for Reader Views (04/2020) Mikel B. Classen is an explorer and adventurist specializing in exploring many places in the United States, with a specialty of visiting locales in the Michigan Upper Peninsula area. He’s visited ghost…
ReaderViews reviews Are You Rugged?

Rugged Dude Carson Modern History Press (2019) ISBN 9781615994533 Reviewed by Rachel Dehning for Reader Views (04/2020) “Are You Rugged or Unrugged?” by Rugged Dude Carson is a humorous book which includes scenarios in which you are judged as either rugged or unrugged (according to Rugged Dude Carson). Examples of…
Tom Powers reviews Points North
Points North: Discover Hidden Campgrounds, Natural Wonders, and Waterways of the Upper Peninsula by Mikel B. Classen Review by Tom Powers, Michigan in Books Yes, yet another travel guide to the Upper Peninsula, and if you’re tempted to dismiss it and say enough already, you would be wrong. This is…
Midwest Book Review features Yoga Cocaine
Tyla Taylor’s Bookshelf Yoga Cocaine Daralyse Lyons Modern History Press 9781615994854, $19.95, hardcover, 240 pages 9781615994847, paperback A powerful journey of transformation and personal evolution! Jessica is an incredible character with a powerful story. Following her journey tugged at my heart and although the subjects addressed (addiction, relapse, recovery, trauma)…
Midwest Book Review features Points North

Read the full review on Midwest Book Review blog Profusely illustrated, impressively informative, ideal for planning all manner of day trips, weekend adventures, and vacation itineraries, “Points North: Discover Hidden Campgrounds, Natural Wonders, and Waterways of the Upper Peninsula” is unreservedly recommended for personal, family, and community library Travel Guide…
Seattle Book Review features Points North

Rosi Hollinbeck from Seattle Book Review reviews Points North: “…Who needs cities when one can find an abundance of parks, museums, ghost towns, wilderness areas, hiking trails, rivers, lighthouses, and more. This wonderful book has forty destinations, each with a write-up of two to five pages that includes beautiful full-color…
Tulsa Book Review features Yoga Cocaine
Alice Berger reviews Writing For Bliss
Broadstreet Review on Yoga Cocaine

Kyle V. Hiller writes: Yoga Cocaine is an abyssal dive into imperfect meditation, spirituality as a means to recovery and self-definition, and finding the humility to reconcile strained, compromised relationships. Jessica’s unabashed rawness is both dispiriting and rewarding, honest and diverting—it’s human. I enjoyed watching her transformation unfold, even if…
Qualitative Review of How Dare We! Write

This book is a collection of stories that writers of color and LGBTQAI+ writers have experienced and are still experiencing as writers in a literary world where their voices are silenced,and their experiences are not represented. The 24 stories written in the book are interconnected, and each story shows challenges…
MyShelf review of Frugal Book Promoter

From the author’s popular “How to Do It Frugally Series,” comes this third edition of The Frugal Book Promoter, a nonfiction guide to getting no-and-low-cost publicity. As the publishing industry has changed over the years—primarily because of the internet—each new edition provides updates accordingly. This latest version of the first…
Fran Lewis reviews Yoga Cocaine
The Compulsive Reader reviews Frugal Book Promoter 3rd Ed

Reviewed by Magdalena Ball The Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher 3rd Edition By Carolyn Howard-Johnson Modern History Press 2019, ISBN: 9781615994700, I first read, and reviewed Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s The Frugal Book Promoter in 2011, when the first edition…