Saving Stanley is a terrific collection of eight interrelated stories about Daniel Brickman and his family. The stories move back and forth in time and focus on different family members…
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Review: “Saving Stanley” by Scott Nadelson
1st September 2010 by rosecityreader under Authors, Featured, Publishers, Reading, Review, Reviews, Short Stories
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New Release: “Blood, Money, Power” by Michele Marie Tate
Editors Note: If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), you can now do so on our community blog with a post similar to this. Please visit our FAQ page to learn more about adding posts to the community blog. New Release: Blood, Money, Power, [...]
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New Release: “The Pain Chronicles” by Melanie Thernstrom
Editors Note: If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), you can now do so on our community blog with a post similar to this. Please visit our FAQ page to learn more about adding posts to the community blog. New Release: The Pain Chronicles: [...]
Motivational Author Lands Book Deal and Radio Show
“I believe that you get what you focus on,” says Portlander Jenny Gallagher, life coach, yoga teacher and author. For those of us obsessed with our lame jobs or unsatisfying relationships, that’s not a happy thought. But Gallagher believes that by changing focus, you get immediate results. Gallagher self-published her first book, Four Steps to [...]
How Portland Authors Will Benefit From the New Reading Local
As we build up to the launch of the new Reading Local: Portland, we wanted to post a few examples of how this new site will benefit the different parts of our literary community. Today’s post will focus on Portland authors and how they can use the site to promote new releases, upcoming events, and [...]
Oregon Authors Make Connections and Pitch Manuscripts at Fifth Annual Thrillerfest
Eight hundred thriller writers and fans converged on New York earlier this month for the fifth annual Thrillerfest. Convening at the Hyatt at Grand Central Station, the crime writers attended panels and classes, lectured, networked, and had at least one cocktail party every night. The International Thriller Writers Association was founded in 2004, after a [...]
Review: “Angler Management” by Jack Ohman
[ Angler Management: The Day I Died While Fly Fishing and Other Essays | Jack Ohman | Headwater Books | $24.95 ] Angler Management is cartoonist Jack Ohman’s first book of essays and shows that Ohman is as funny with words as he is with pictures. In this collection, Ohman discusses the obsession that is [...]
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Interview/Book Giveaway: Winnie Mack Splashes Into Kids Lit
Are you and/ or your tween daughter in need of a good summer read? Be sure to comment with your email address at the end of this blog post for a chance to win a copy of Winnie Mack’s debut middle grade fiction book After All, You’re Callie Boone. It’s a story about 11 year-old [...]
Interview: Renée Watson Offers Hope Through the Storms
Renée Watson has been writing and performing since she was a kid at Vernon Elementary in Northeast Portland. She credits a teacher from Jefferson High School as her biggest influence to become a writer. Now, as an artist in residence in schools in the Bronx, she uses creative writing and theater to heighten social awareness [...]
Interview: Radiant Emily Whitman
There’s something luminous about Emily Whitman. At least that’s what I remember thinking when I met her at the book signing of a mutual friend last spring. Maybe it was her sparkling eyes, or the warmth and kindness in her smile that day. But after reading her debut YA novel Radiant Darkness, I suspect Emily [...]
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