"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Carole McDonnell's short stories and essays appear online and in print, in speculative fiction, ethnic, and Christian publications. She lives in New York with her husband, two sons, and their pets. Wind Follower, published by Juno Books in June 2007, is her first novel.
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Book Review: A Deep Dark Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Deep Dark Secret is not exactly an answer to secular YA books on sexual molestation in the religious community. But it definitely contributes to the conversation.
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Book Review: The Last Woman Standing by Tia McCollors
With the exception of speculative fiction, Black Fiction as a whole is divided into fairly raunchy stuff and fairly pious stuff.
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Interview with Sylvia Kelso, Feminist Speculative Fiction Novelist: One Year Later
"The themes of my stories are usually quite different…though I have to take care, as books proliferate, that I don’t get repeating situations or characters."
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Titles for Change: Three New Christian Books to Help You Keep Those New Year Resolutions
Chantal Hobbs, Karen Scalf Linamen and Ellie Kay will help readers improve their lives, regardless of faith.
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Book Review: The Road to Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
After a harrowing childhood of whippings, cruelty, and abuse, the author’s “grandfather” a Muslim man who has been abusing her, sells her into a brothel.
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Interview with Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Gay Activist and Author of So Many Ways To Sleep Badly
All of my work is about trying to fight against cultural homelessness, trying to create some sense of hope in a world that really isn't very hopeful.
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Book Review: Seaborn by Chris Howard
"Seaborn" is no regular fantasy about mermaids. It is an epic, created with a linguist’s, a sociologist’s, and a poet’s touch.
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Summer 2008 Political Fiction, Real World and Otherwise
Why do these books have politics as a subtext? Maybe because it's a political year - or maybe some strange force led me to them.
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Book Review: Sleep Before Evening by Magdalena Ball
So often angsty teenagers are clichéd or unlikable or they just seem plain unreal. Here, however, the author does a good job.
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Book Review: The Hidden Dangers of Soy by Diane Gregg
The book is filled with well-researched articles, website resources, and much anecdotal evidence.
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