Category: Reviews/Interviews

Book Review of Mama’s Madness – Billy Ray Chitwood

Chitwood’s novel tells the story of Tamantha Preen, a fictional character based on a real person who terrorized her family in northern California.  Tamantha had a real or imagined depraved upbringing, and she is hell bent to pass depravity on. She murders two daughters and seems determined to make it three if her daughter Tammie […]

Harlie’s Book Blog – Review of A Bridge to Treachery

This is a review of  A Bridge to Treachery that appeared in Harlie’s Book Blog in December 2012. Review: OH. MY. WORD.  I’m in love.  Lou Christopher is one of the most intriguing, intense and focused men that I have read this year.  *sigh*  After years in the military he starts working as an investment […]

Author Interview – Howard Waxman

In another post I reviewed Venceremos, a novel based on 1960s radicals.  I have asked the author, Howard Waxman to tell us about the work, his background, his methods, and his thoughts. Blurb Brooklyn-born Jay Cardinale, Vietnam War hero turned deserter, has fled to a commune in Canada. Aching to get back home he gets […]

Treachery Character Interview – Maggie Christopher

Lou Christopher’s wife Maggie plays a big role in my novel A Bridge to Treachery. It’s a role that grew exponentially from the moment she was given her own POV, because she provides a relentlessly practical approach to solving dilemmas at the same time that she  holds on to her love for Lou.  Maggie has […]

Review of Venceremos by Howard Waxman

Venceremos by Howard Waxman My rating: 4 of 5 starsI discovered Venceremos in the Book Section of the Portland Press Herald.  Howard Waxman is from Bath, a neighboring town. Most of all though, I was attracted to the novel because of its subject matter – the late 60’s early 70’s years when young men had […]