SLR Contributor Allen Mendenhall Interviews Ace Atkins SLR: What I suspect everyone wants to know is, how do you stay so prolific? How do you write so much, so quickly? AA: I’m very fortunate to be a full-time novelist. I’ve been writing full time since 2001 and that gives me the freedom […]
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
October 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Silver Sparrow is one of the most unique and creative stories to hit shelves this year. The daughter of a polygamist, Dana Yarboro is convinced she is second best. Forced to live a secret life much less posh than her half sister, Dana watches her father’s other daughter from the distance and examines the “silver […]
Meet Stephen Wetta, Author of October Read of the Month: If Jack’s in Love
October 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
EXCITEMENT!!! That’s what we feel about Jack Wetta’s debut novel, If Jack’s in Love, and we are certain that after you read the following interview by SLR contributor Rhett DeVane, you’ll be laughing so hysterically you will order this Read of the Month immediately. SLR: Is there an intended message in If […]
October Read of the Month, If Jack’s in Love by Stephen Wetta
October 1, 2011 by 1 Comment
Click to Buy If Jack’s in Love by Stephen Wetta Reviewed by Rhett DeVane The transition between tormented boyhood and teenage angst is difficult enough for young genius Jack Witchner. Add in a shiftless redneck father, a bullying dope-smoking older brother, a meek homely mother, and a family home that is an eyesore […]
Green Gospel, by L.C. Fiore
September 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Green Gospel by L.C. Fiore Reviewed by Donna Meredith Other writers have tried to take us into the minds of domestic terrorists, most recently Pearl Abraham, with American Taliban, John Updike, with Terrorist, and David Goodwillie, with American Subversive. Although these novels focus on attacks inspired by al-Qaida, the FBI lists […]