The Black Sheep Dances

The title alone tells me that I may be too old for this by about a decade, but I jumped into it eagerly.  And discovered I'm a lot dumbe...

This is actually the second time recently that I've read a fiction novel written by someone I'd only known as a poet, and this depar...

I've raved about Islandport Press before, and fair warning, I'm going to do it again.  I found them a few years ago when a now-defun...

Three Percent - Open Letter is the  face of  translated literature right now, and as a nonprofit publisher, they could use some $$$$.  When ...

It's just the first week in December, but everyone's putting up their "best-of" posts so I guess I had better get busy! ...

Remember Dover Publications?  They run anywhere from $1.50 to $4.00 for a paperback, and I remember depending on them in high school for Eng...

Due to popular demand, 2012 will continue the Eastern European Reading Challenge from 2011.  We've ended up with 72 participants in 22 n...

This year's Eastern European Reading Challenge hasn't yet ended, but it's time to think of next year's reading challenge.  I...

Algonquin has generously provided me with an extra copy of When She Woke , the latest from Hillary Jordan.  This futuristic novel plays on c...

Three giveaways have ended, so the winners are listed below. I'm contacting them via email... Shadows Walking:  Bev Child Wonder:  T...

"...I'd need to begin and finish before anything worthwhile came of what a woman like me could do with a cheap paintbrush, four sig...

Just to recap, there are three giveaways going on right now.  To enter any or all, leave a comment at each link.  Open to US only, blog fo...

...The conclusion of the week devoted to the new novel, Shadows Walking . "More people thinking everything is stupid or corrupt or evi...

....the last of a series of a questions I was able to ask Doug Skopp, author of Shadows Walking . Enter to win a copy by leaving a comment ...

Doug Skopp, author of Shadows Walking , has generously provided an intensive focus this week for TBSD regarding the Holocaust.  I felt his b...

Guest post by Professor Doug Skopp---- When I was writing Shadows Walking —I think I had finished the ninth draft, sometime in 2006—I trie...

By Professor Doug Skopp I am—rather, I was, before I retired in 2006—a teacher of history. The hardest part of my job was convincing my ...