Book in Progress #11: Marketing
Joe Taylor You think you know what you know, until you find out you don’t. I learned some lessons selling my first book, “I’m Just Lucky To Own My Own…
A Review: And it All Came Tumbling Down
review by Patricia Thrushart Most people in the United States, when they think of the nation’s oil and gas industry, immediately picture the refineries outside of Houston, Texas, or the…
Old Grimes is Dead -a Review
Title Old Grimes is Dead - Author Dennis McFadden Reviewer Carole A. Briggs The title Old Grimes is Dead comes from an old Yorkshire folk song and lines from it…
Winter 2022 Letter from the Guest Editor
From Guest Editor Karen Schubert I co-founded Lit Youngstown in 2015, pretty focused on the local community. We started a monthly reading series and sent out an invitation to Youngstown-area…
How to get Audible books without a Membership
by Fred Wilbur January 7, 2022 Say you are looking for something to listen to on that long car ride you are taking. You go to Amazon and find a book…
Living Among Ghost Towns
by Hannah Allman Kennedy Imagining and Remembering the Past In my novel, And It All Came Tumbling Down, published by The Watershed Journal Literary Group, protagonist Amy Ireland recounts childhood…
Tango Below a Narrow Ceiling (A Review)
Review by Patricia Thrushart Tango Below A Narrow Ceiling By Riad Saleh Hussein (1954 – 1982) Translated from the Arabic by Saleh Razzouk and Philip Terman The Bitter Oleander Press,…
“To Build a Fire” — A Review
"To Build a Fire" — A Review by Denny Bonavita A long half-century ago, I was captivated by the novels of Jack London. I spent teenage time fantasizing about the Yukon,…
Review of Lady Chevy: A Novel
guest blogger Karen Weyant Review of Lady Chevy: A Novel By John Woods New York: Pegasus Books, 2020 Lady Chevy is a very angry book. The characters are angry. The…
Fall 2021 Edition Letter from the Guest Editor
All of my family are from Appalachia. The 18th century origins on both sides seem to have been in Eastern Kentucky (Pike/Prestonburg) and then to have migrated North into Southern…