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 […]
Meet Lynne Bryant, Author of Catfish Alley
July 15, 2011 by 1 Comment
At SLR, we like to cover both new releases and old. Every now and then, a good one slips through the cracks. This summer, we’ve spent a little time working our way through the Slush Pile..and look what we found! A can’t-miss read by debut novelist, Lynne Bryant. Recently, SLR contributor Rhett DeVane had the […]
Catfish Alley, by Lynne Bryant
July 14, 2011 by 4 Comments
Click to Buy Catfish Alley by Lynne Bryant Reviewed by Rhett DeVane Far too often, novels set in the South settle for clichéd one-dimensional characters: vapid belles, ignorant or radical African-Americans, belligerent white males incapable of change. This is not the case with Lynne Bryant’s Catfish Alley. From the first page, the author […]