All Blog Posts Tagged 'Press' (65)

ISBN 978-0-8143-3412-6

Rating: 3 - Pretty good…

re-demp-tion [re demp shuh`n] noun 

1. an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed.…

Coming September 2011 from Texas Christian University Press

By C.W. Smith

TCU Press 268 pg

978-0-87565-437-9

Submitted by Taylor Made Press

Rating: 4

You know when some horrible accident occurs and you can't look away? Something that commands your reluctant…

Submitted by TCU Press

Rating: 4.5

Home Truths is Gerald Duff's memoir of a boyhood spent on the Gulf Coast and deep in the piney woods of East Texas. I am a native Texan and I…

The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars

By Sylvia Longmire

St. Martin's Press 246 pgs

978-0-230-11137-0

Rating: Yeah....Okay + 1/2

As an introduction to the subject of Mexico's drug wars, Cartel does a good job. It tells you who they are, what they do, and how they do it. The book reads like a textbook and the…

By Dave Kuhne

Ink Brush Press pgs162

978-0-9835968-1-3

Rating: 3.5

The Road to Roma is a slim collection of short stories by Dave Kuhne, Associate Director of the William L. Adams Center for Writing at Texas Christian University. Mr. Kuhne is also the editor of descant, TCU's literary journal. Each story in Roma evokes Texas unerringly, from the Valley to Austin in the 70s and (although never identified) what can only be the flagship…

By Marc Schuster

The Permanent Press, 176 pgs

978-1-57962-263-3

Rating: 3.5

The Grievers by Marc Schuster is a short novel about how a group of friends responds to the suicide of one of their own. And it's much funnier than it sounds. Our protagonist is Charley Schwartz, one of a group of men who attended the same…

By Gerald Duff

moon city press, 315 pgs

978-0-913785-34-8

Rating: 4

Gerald Duff has mad skills. Blue Sabine is lyrical, it reads like poetry but in a good way. This is the story of the Holt family as they relocate from Louisiana to Texas after the Civil War and unto the present day, told by the voices of its women, who have always been the strength of Texas. Everybody knows that, right?

Don't come to Blue…

By Steve Sherwood

Texas Review Press, 214 pgs

1-881515-68-0

Rating: 3.75

Hardwater has so much going on it can be difficult to keep track. In this case, that's not a bad thing. Peter Hoback is a newspaper editor in Hardwater, Wyoming, a small town that has seen better times, before the uranium mines closed. Pete fled Denver for Hardwater with his son Bart following the violent death of his wife at the hands of a psychopath. And wouldn't you know…

Okay, maybe not me (that sounds needy), but I do have something for you to listen to. http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2013/02/listen-to-me.html

K.R. Jordan announces her first solo release...

Riftglade!

I have known K.R. (River) for a number of years now, and I have to say…

Book…

Writers are, by nature, creative people. We sit around daydreaming of plots, characters, heroes and villains. But, what happens if you think up a terrific marketing idea yet don't follow through?

Too much work? Okay, it might take some effort. Afraid it won't work? Can't know unless you try. Think people will reject it? Maybe. Or, maybe you'll break new ground.

Scenario: The blog over at my publishing house was lacking. Nobody seemed to be following. I posted a…

Hunter's Blood by Rue Volley

My rating: 5 of 5 Hearts



I was given the opportunity to read this Wicked installment before it was published.. But I did buy the Published Version as…

My latest novella, Music For Her Soul, will be released by Amira Press on August 10, 2012! I am very excited by this piece because I had the opportunity to work with a group of readers prior to submission and I have a work that does my heart proud. 

Blurb: Single mom Lena Spencer is…

That's right, Set Free: An Amish Journey has come to an end. Allan's story comes to its conclusion with Trestle Press's latest release - Volume 9 - Humbled.



As a bonus, Trestle has decided to include the short epilogue of Volume 10 with Volume 9 for free. What do you think about that? I think it's great!…

Today is the day! Calendar Girl was officially released by Amira Press at 7:00 AM CST. Yes, I was watching the clock tick over on my computer when the website was updated.

While I have interviews scheduled over the next few weeks to talk about the book and my writing, I wanted to take a few moments right now to mark this occasion – my first published work!

I tell my kids that nothing should stop you from dreaming dreams. I’m glad I finally took my own advice, even if it took me…