Category: Book Reviews
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Beyond the Wail is Out!
What is it about fear and the unknown that pulls so passionately at the human heart? Perhaps we are drawn not to the darkness itself, but to the resolution, the overcoming of what we most deeply dread. After all, the more terrible the struggle, the greater the victory when it comes at last. Presented in…
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Hot Steam on a Midsummer Night
Ginger’s Notes here. How about a little Sunday Steampunk! Author Scott E. Tarbet does it again with a riveting revision of his popular first novel. A Midsummer Night’s Steampunk, now a worldwide hit, is selling on Amazon.com. Watch my Author Spotlights for a special interview series with Scott. You won’t see it anywhere but here,…
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Book Review: The Toll of Another Bell
I am pleased to write to you today about an excellent book of short stories. Pleased because this book has just entertained me so well, and because my own story, Jilted River appears under this same cover. Xchyler Publishing’s new Anthology, The Toll of Another Bell, kept me turning pages all the way to the…
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Book Review: Love, Imperfectly Known
As book reviews go, I think this one is likely to be a little unfair. Concerning Love, Imperfectly Known by the Christian monk and mystic, Brother Emmanuel of Taizé: it’s hard for me to be objective about a book that I have grown to adore so personally. This disturbs me a little bit. I would…
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China Doll on LibraryThing.com
“China Doll” by Ginger C. Mann – am I allowed to call a tale that includes tragic accidents and death charming? What about one with a kindly mysterious old man who fixes toys with magic, and helps a young girl to realize her own talents in that area? I think that’s ok, right? So a…
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China Doll, Reviewed by Scott Taylor
The first review is in. Scott Taylor, writer and filmmaker, posted his independent review of China Doll on September 13, 2013. The launch of the book that features us, along with eleven other authors, is planned for October 31, 2013. Scott Taylor is one of my sibling authors, appearing with me in Shades and Shadows, a Paranormal…