Most readers have heard of tiger moms and “daddyballs”—those hyper-competitive parents who live vicariously through their children’s achievements. In What’s Yours Is Mine (Lake Union, 2025), Jennifer Jabaley dives into the intense world of Atlanta’s pre-professional ballet, where one mother takes that rivalry to a chilling—and dangerous—extreme. Fans of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere and […]
Donna Meredith interviews Elizabeth C. Garcia, author of “Resurrected Body”
August 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Introduction: So, how long have I known Elizabeth Cranford Garcia? Many years. Don’t ask how many. Let’s just say I stopped expecting the face of the person I was then to look back at me in the mirror. Or to use Liz’s metaphor, perhaps at some point I have been resurrected into a stranger’s body. […]
Deb Bowen
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Deb Bowen is co-author of A Good Friend for Bad Times: Helping Others through Grief (Augsburg Fortress Publishers). Her Crafting the Wheel of the Year (Search Press) with Claire Gelder is scheduled for release in autumn, 2025. Deb’s creative nonfiction, essays, and poetry are published in Salvation South and County Lines Literary Journal. Her current […]
August Books of Note: “Damn English!” and “When Time Was Suspended”
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Damn English! by Gary Sherbell Damn English! (Black Rose Writing 2025) by Gary Sherbell is a witty exploration of why your high school English papers were always covered in red ink. With humor and insight, Sherbell compiles a collection of homonyms, tricky spellings, and the many illogical quirks of the English language—all in one entertaining […]
“The Goddess of Weaver Street” by Joy Ross Davis
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Review by Deb Bowen Prolific author Joy Ross Davis offers readers both magical realism and a view of societal norms for upper class women during the Eisenhower era in The Goddess of Weaver Street (Wyatt-MacKenzie, July 2, 2024) Women in the 1950s and early 1960s, relegated to rigidly defined domestic roles, cherished their portable hair […]
“The Game” by Brandon Keller
July 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
In his gripping debut novel The Game: A High-Stakes Conspiracy of Power, Poker, and Profit (Black Rose Writing, 2025), Brandon Keller explores the ruthless race to control artificial intelligence—an innovation powerful enough to reshape the future. With its fast-paced plot and financial intrigue, The Game will appeal to fans of Stephen Frey’s financial thrillers and […]