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4.5-STAR REVIEW: YONAH AND DEVORAH’S TRAVELING MUSIC THEATER by Suze Leonie

Literary Fiction Amy Wilson - 23 April 2025

Publication Date: October 1, 2024 When famous new media artist Eli Schmidt inherits a mysterious chest from his emotionally detached grandmother that he is instructed not to open, he can't curb his curiosity....

3.5-STAR REVIEW: GROOMED by Jody Paschal

Fiction Amy Wilson - 7 April 2025

Publication Date: November 29, 2024 Groomed is a dark comedy coming-of-age story about Myles "Mylo" Gunn, a middle-aged man turning 50 during the 2020 global pandemic and #MeToo Movement. With nothing but downtime with...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: I SEE YOU’VE CALLED IN DEAD by John Kenney

Comedy/Humor Amy Wilson - 3 April 2025

Publication Date: April 1, 2025 The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life’s story. Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live....

5-STAR REVIEW: HOW TO KILL MEN AND GET AWAY WITH IT by Katy Brent

Mystery Amy Wilson - 13 June 2023

Publication Date: October 12, 2022 Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone. I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE CONNECTION GAME by S.S Turner

Fiction Amy Wilson - 6 April 2023

Publication Date: March 21, 2023 Benny Basilworth makes connections. A rare intellect, he sees things that others don't see and draws conclusions that others completely fail to grasp. He has the kind of...

4.5 STAR REVIEW: MERMAID CONFIDENTIAL by Tim Dorsey

Book Reviews Amy Wilson - 6 January 2022

Serge Storms: Book 25 Publication Date: January 25, 2022 Serge A. Storms gives condo living a try in this latest acid-splashed Florida crime caper from the “insanely funny” (New York Times Book Review) Tim Dorsey. Serge A. Storms...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE LAST SPEAKER OF SKALWEGIAN by David Gardner

Dark Humor Amy Wilson - 10 November 2021

Publication Date: September 8, 2021 Professor Lenny Thorson lives in a defunct revolving restaurant, obsesses over word derivations, and teaches linguistics at a fourth-rate college with a gerbil for a mascot. Lenny's thirty-four...

GUEST BLOG: The Dying Languages Around the World by David Gardner Plus Giveaway!

Dark Humor Dayna Linton - 1 November 2021

The hero of my novel, The Last Speaker of Skalwegian, is an unworldly linguist who gets pulled into helping document the language with its last speaker. But doubts arise about the validity...