Stories have tremendous power to provide a sense of belonging to a people, a culture, and a place; narrative provides a context in which a strong sense of personal and community identity can be formed. Even people who live at the margins... Read More

*And the eagle flies with the dove / And if you can’t be with the one you love / Love the one you’re with —*Crosby Stills Nash & Young The second book in the Rob Grant Trilogy features a lead character in the process of finding... Read More

The Road to Edens Ridge by M.L. Rose (Iroquois Press 978-1-59652-484-2) tells two stories of love. Lindsey Briggs has left her fiancé at the altar and her home in Maine to become a country music star in Nashville. While playing a show... Read More

Humans have been interested in making more than one copy of an image since we dipped our hands in ochre and pressed them to the wall of a cave. “The demise of pictures in single copies” writes Richard Benson “is one of the first... Read More

It is obvious that poet Paul L. Shriver loves words. He loves the sound of them and what they can do but most of all Shriver loves to play with words and he does this very well. There is variety here to satisfy most every taste and... Read More

Combining the mystery of a ghost ship with the romance of the open sea Edward Muesch weaves an intriguing story about two men’s journeys to find adventure and true love in his novel "Land of Men". Muesch winner of a 2007 Indie... Read More

A follow-up to the well-received Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing also edited by Raphael Kadushin "Big Trips" doesn’t suffer from sequel-itis that peculiar malady that can strike a sec-ond volume of a strong anthology. Rather than... Read More

Tecate, a Mexican border town near San Diego, really exists. In the hands of Reveles, however, it’s also a state of mind. "Guacamole Dip", his second book focusing on life in Tecate, is a collection of seven short stories about the... Read More