This book was reviewed for Netgalley McNicoll’s Sam Giancana looks at the tumultuous life and ignominious death of one of Chicago’s top Mafia men. Born to Sicilian immigrants, Giancana grew up in the Patch, and it wasn’t long til he was running with a street gang. He wanted more though. Giancana wanted to be […]
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Book Review: Ghosts from Our Past by Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews Yates’ and Gilbert’s Ghosts from Our Past is a collaboration of love from two young physicists in training. The book is (now) organised into three broad parts. ‘Our Stories’ focused on the authors’ histories and how they became interested in the paranormal, […]
Marie Benedict’s Top 6 Historical People to Meet
As a writer of historical fiction, somedays I feel like an archaeologist, cobbling together an understanding of a past person or place from an amalgam of letters and artifacts and abandoned spaces. Using my own mixture of logic and fiction, I fill in the blanks between the signposts left by history. But, of course, sometimes […]
Book Review: The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews, and Netgalley The Other Einstein, by Marie Benedict, is a look at lost dreams, failing hopes, and ‘what ifs’. What if Mileva, little known first wife of Albert Einstein, had never forsaken her path, and graduated with a physics degree as she had […]
Book Review: Skeleton Keys by John Klann
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Do the dead still walk amongst us, sharing their old homes, or jobs, with coworkers. John Klann has set about to explore that very question. Skeleton Keys is a collection of terrifying, true tales of workplace hauntings. Most are recounted from the person to whom they happened. […]
Book Review: Blood Transparencies by Randy White
This book was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review Blood Transparencies, an autobiographical poetry collection by Randy White, is an eloquent and poignant look at a life via verbal snapshots. These precious pearls shaped in words are beautiful, drawing forth emotion and resonant memory from the reader. There were several times I had […]
Book Review: The Devil’s Prayer by Luke Gracias
This book was reviewed via Netgalley The Devil’s Prayer by Luke Gracias is a brilliant series of nested stories recounting two generations of one young woman’s family. The mother who disappeared for decades, only to turn up dead in Europe. The two orphans raised by their grandma when their mother vanishes. The history […]
Book Review- Jekyll Island Chronicles (graphic novel)
This book was reviewed via Netgalley The Jekyll Island Chronicles by Nedvidek, Cromwell, and Lowe tells the behind the scenes story of an alternate history in which the titans of industry and science come together to do far more than craft the Federal Reserve. Meeting on Jekyll Island, off the coast of Georgia, […]
Slang of a Bygone Era- Mediaeval
Slang, colloquialisms, idioms. These are the myriad vagaries of language, accenting and highlighting culture and subculture. These are the things that make word-play fun, and enhance your writing. Below are 13 slang words from Mediaeval times for your enjoyment! Try using some in your own works! Example sentences courtesy of the Jericho crew. 1. Basta […]
Book Review- The Ashes of Waterloo by Olivia Andem
Reviewed for Reader’s Favourite Andem’s Ashes of Waterloo isn’t my typical fare. I’m not the biggest fan if historical romance (or romance in general), but I’ve been working to expand my reading horizons. I do greatly enjoy historical fiction in general, and this book provided a great story. The title is what captured my attention […]