Month: December 2017

“Grist Mill Road” by Author Christopher J. Yates started off as a dynamic, powerful, intense and captivating novel.  The genres for this book are Psychological Thriller, and Mystery and Suspense. The timelines for this story are 1982  and  2008.  Hannah, Matthew and Patrick start off as young teenagers when a suspenseful terrible crime happens. Twenty

My Review of “The Promise Between Us” by Barbara Claypole White WOW!  I appreciate that Barbara Claypole White, Author of “The Promise Between Us” has written such a powerful and descriptive novel about mental illness. The genres for this book are Fiction and Women’s Fiction, but Barbara Claypole White describes   mental illness in such

My Review of “The Road to Bittersweet” by Donna Everhart WOW!  Kudos to Donna Earhart, Author of “The Road to Bittersweet” for such an incredible, heartwarming and emotional journey. It was really difficult for me to put “The Road to Bittersweet” down, because I just had to see what happened. I love the author’s description

My Review of “Between Me and You” by Allison Winn Scotch Kudos to Allison Winn Scotch, Author of “Between Me and You’ for such an enjoyable and heartwarming novel.  The genres of this story are Fiction and Contemporary Fiction. The timeline of the story is within a twenty year period, going back only if it

My Review of “Match Made in Manhattan” by Amanda Stauffer Kudos to Amanda Stauffer , Author of “Match in Manhattan” for such an entertaining, witty and unique story. The blurb for the story states” The Awkward, Romantic, and Cringeworthy  Struggles of Trying to Find The One in the Digital Dating Age.” The genre for this

  Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative account of a young woman reckoning not just with the unforgiving landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence to wisdom. For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and

My Review of “The Girls in the Picture” by Melanie Benjamin, Random House Publishing Group, Ballantine, January 2018 I enjoyed reading “The Girls in the Picture” by Melanie Benjamin. The genres for this novel are Historical Fiction, and Women’s Fiction. This is a story that starts in 1914 when silent movies were so important. This

Kim Michele Richardson HOME ABOUT BOOKS NEWS TOURS CONTACT Kim Michele Richardson – photo Andrew Eccles NY   JOURNEY TO INDIE BOOKSTORES             ~~~ I love exploring my birthplace in my writings; the beautiful, brutal and mysterious Kentucky land and its people. I have traveled to mostly every corner and nook of Kentucky and

HOME BOOKS SHORT FICTION BLOG ABOUT NEWS AND EVENTS The Last Suppers Set in 1950s Louisiana, Mandy Mikulencak’s beautifully written and emotionally moving novel evokes both The Help and Dead Man Walking with the story of an unforgettable woman whose quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her

ABOUT REVIEWS ORDER CONTACT ABOUT – ABOUT THE NOVEL — EXCERPTS — ARTWORK – ABOUT JOAN – EVENTS – IN THE NEWS REVIEWS ORDER CONTACT ABOUT JOAN WINNER, 2017 POETS & WRITERS MAUREEN EGEN WRITERS EXCHANGE AWARD Named by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of “5 more over 50” writers to watch, author Joan