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Jeremy C. Shipp Recommends Their Top 5 Books with Whimsical Settings
by Jeremy C. Shipp In The Merry Dredgers, my protagonist Seraphina infiltrates a community of cultists living in a shadowy fever dream of an amusement park. Follow Seraphina into the park entrance, and you’ll spot a wolf-themed roller coaster to your right, resting on the blackened earth, curled up like a dead snake. To your […] More
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in Collection, Fiction, Literary, ReviewsIndependent Book Review: No God Like the Mother by Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher
Starred Review – NO GOD LIKE THE MOTHER by Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher is a raw look at those crucial moments when the realities of life are laid bare. Check out what Erica Ball has to say in her review of this Forest Avenue Press book.
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Foreword Reviews: In My Dreams Starred Review
The nature of dreams is explored in this book of few words with stunning illustrations. A young girl describes the strange nature of her dreams, ever-changing apart from the last one that brings her back to consciousness. The dreams are illustrated in grayscale pencil apart from a single element on every page—a pink umbrella, a school of orange fish—until the girl peels back the corner of her dream and lets in the light and colors of the day.
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Review of The Merry Dredgers by Jeremy C. Shipp
We recently dove into the dark whimsy of “The Merry Dredgers” by Jeremy C. Shipp, and it was a delightful and enchanting read! The story centers around Seraphina, a “princess-for-hire” (and petsitter and whatever other side job she can find on her freelance app). She gets a series of postcards from her free-spirited sister, telling […] More
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in Articles, Excerpt, InterviewsQ&A with Samara Breger & Excerpt from A Long Time Dead
Calling all Twilight fans who can’t get enough! Samara Breger’s A Long Time Dead (Bywater Books, May 16, 2023) is a lush, tongue-in-cheek Victorian romance about the lengths two women will go to secure a love that cannot die. We are pleased to share this Q&A with the author, along with an excerpt from her book. What inspired you […] More
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Excerpt from The Lioness of Leiden
by Robert Loewen My wife’s mother, Hetty Kraus (1920-1994) was a student at Leiden University when the Third Reich invaded the Netherlands on March 10, 1940. She soon joined the Dutch resistance and somehow survived. That story is told in my upcoming novel, The Lioness of Leiden (Greenleaf Book Group). After my retirement from law […] More
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The Hamilton Review of Books: Indie Bestsellers List: Feb 2023
The Hamilton Review of Books’ Independently Published Bestsellers List: February 2023
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Amanda Traylor shares her playlist for Lost Sierra
by Amanda Traylor Lost Sierra is set in a rural small town in the Northern California Sierra Nevada mountains. I grew up in Northern California in the Bay Area and let me tell you, the two regions are like different states entirely. The Sierras are isolated, rural, stupefying in their majestic beauty, inspiring and somewhat […] More
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Independent Book Review: The Pause and the Breath
[Starred Book Review] THE PAUSE AND THE BREATH by Kwame Sound Daniels is a tender perspective of a singular yet universal human experience. Check out what Samantha Hui has to say about this Atmosphere Press poetry collection.
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2022 Foreword Indies Finalists
These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The finalists of the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
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