Not a WRITER is a collection of poetry by Roxana Preciado. Preciado writes in a free verse format; her words dash and weave across the page, reflecting her creative process and interior struggles. In her opening piece, The Trenches, the repeated refrain “She haunts me”...

Burnt Face: Scarred For Life by Annette Swann is a memoir about a young girl who survived third-degree burn injuries that scar her physically and emotionally for the rest of her life. One of Annette's earliest memories is that of being a happy go lucky...

Let’s begin this review of Not a Fairytale by asking if it’s not a fairytale, then what is it? Essentially, it’s a rare form of memoir, not told as a story with characters and dialogue, but as a poem based, as many memoirs are, on...

Dismantling Cinderella by Tamsen Grace is a compilation of poetry that initially takes the traditional telling of the well known fairy tale and turns it on its head. “I think the fairy Godmother should have turned that Prince back into a frog, or his head...

What can I say? Twelve by Kindra M. Austin is the most powerful thing I have read in recent memory. It may be the most powerful collection of poetry on the planet. It is real. It is honest and devoid of the pretentiousness of most...

Menu for Murder: A Jayne Stanford Mystery Book 1 is a lighthearted romantic mystery that will make you smile and have a hard time putting it down. Jayne is the main character. Her innocence and tendency to jump right into every situation without thinking it...

Hood Educated is Roxana Preciado’s honest and passionate poetry collection that reveals her struggles, pain, courage and healing process. It is a collection about loneliness, brokenness, hopelessness yet defying all odds to become much more than you thought was possible. The collection is powerful and...

MOMcarcerated is a humorous fiction novel about aging written by M.R. Abbott. Hedwig Elisabeth Dorner, or Mom, was a sprightly and relatively agile woman of seventy-six years, who still loved to take care of her garden, itself a glowing testament to the skill and green...

Reimagining Adoption: What Adoptees Seek from Families and Faith by Sally Ankerfelt, M.Div. and Gayle H. Swift, CPC throws light on how children thrive in their adoptive families. This book will help readers understand how to become better Christian parents, how to clarify Christian adoption...

Talking about a matter as complicated as adoption is never easy, but being an adoptee and a teenager at the same time can be overwhelming. Authors Gayle and Casey Swift, with illustrator Wesley Blauvelt, will be helpful to many young readers with their amazing work...

Gary McDougall’s Don’t Tell Me There Ain’t No God reads in such a way that you are immediately invested in who this man is and what is transpiring on the page. One of the quotes that really painted a picture for me of what life...

What You Need To Know About Narcissists: Why Cartwheels In Bed And Circusworthy Stunts Won't Matter by Serena Prince gives good insights into Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Abuse. She speaks about her life with a husband who was a Malignant Narcissist and how she...

Trauma For Sale by Roxana Preciado is a very intimate collection of poetry that comes with full-color artworks and personal photographs of the author. Having gone through numerous traumatic experiences in her life, she has finally conquered her demons and is making a beautiful life...

Cult Fiction by K. Gordon Neufeld is a semi-biographical, creative memoir that covers the author’s development as a writer over almost two decades while he was involved with the Unification Church, a cult-like offshoot of Christianity led by an enigmatic leader named Sun Myung Moon....

Prophet and Loss: Stories of Extreme Beliefs has been cleverly titled by K. Gordon Neufeld. The first account, the title story, opens with a flashback to a woman following a man who acknowledges her only to insist she keeps up with him, despite her desperate...

Beto refuses to wear a guayabera to the wedding he has coming up, saying that he has better shirts he would rather wear. He and his Mami go back and forth, Beto refusing to have anything to do with the shirt and Mami trying to...

Gaslighting by Deborah Vinall is a self-help book providing a step-by-step guide to identifying and dealing with being gaslit in relationships and, ultimately, how to recover from emotional abuse. She starts by helping the reader determine whether they are experiencing gaslighting by asking specific questions...

In Invisible Tears, an autobiography by Iram Gilani, the author’s early childhood shifted with her mother’s grief over the son she lost. She was sent to live with a family that couldn’t have children of their own while her mother was carrying another child. This...

Little Boy, I Know Your Name: A Second-Generation Memoir from Inherited Holocaust Trauma by Mitchell Raff is an insightful, heartwrenching story of the author's life. Mitchell's father and mother both endured the unspeakable evils perpetuated on the Jews during the Holocaust. This left them ill-equipped...

Mr. Kerfuffle Lost His Duffle by R.W. Starr is a delightful and charming story about a friendly ogre with big dreams. Mr. Kerfuffle proves that not all ogres are the same as he works to care for the forest and all his friends. But as...