Reprinted with permission, a fabulous review from The Canadian Book Review. One great thing about being active on social media and discussing books is that you discover authors and publishers that you never would have without it. Recently I was contacted by Five Rivers and given the opportunity to review a couple of their titles. When I was browsing through their catalog I came across a book that I knew I just had to read,…
Last week Dr. Judith Miller, associate professor of English language and literature at Renison University College posted a review to her entire mailing list regarding Alicia Hendley’s novel, A Subtle Thing. With Dr. Miller’s permission, we reprint that review here. Alicia Hendley’s novel, A Subtle Thing, is a wonderful thing. Well-written, compelling, a good read. What more could a person ask for? In addition, reading this novel is a learning experience. We spend time in…
Mind Fog Reviews, a subsidiary of Author Meeting Place, recently reviewed Nate Hendley’s Al Capone: Chicago’s King of Crime. In Al Capone: Chicago’s King Of Crime we follow one of the most famous mobsters, Al Capone, from his humble beginnings to the mobster that he became. I, of course, had heard of Al Capone as a child but never knew what drove him to become the man he was. I think that those that enjoy…
The following review appeared yesterday in the Kitchener Waterloo Herald. We thought we’d share the good news. By Jon Fear, Record staffA Subtle Thingby Alicia Hendley(Five Rivers, 200 pages, $25 softcover)Depression can be a painful, soul-destroying burden. And one of the ironies, says Beth, the young woman who tells her own story in this often instructive novel, is that as you wind your way deeper and deeper into self-destructive behaviour, your best friends and family…
Midwest Book Review has given five star ratings to Lorina Stephens’ And the Angels Sang, and From Mountains of Ice. And the Angels Sang is an anthology of short, speculative fiction stories author Lorina Stephens has penned over the course of twenty-five years. Some were previously published in periodicals or writers’ workshops; all offer snapshots of the human condition. From the titular story of how a pious man perceives angels even as he suffers unspeakable…