A memoir is difficult when the subject is an unexceptional person whose life had few interesting aspects. This would have been a fine short story. “Mommy, am I a real Korean?” her daughter asks her at age five. She thought about it. She had been adopted by a white family after her Korean parents gave … More All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir, by Nicole Chung [Review]
I read this book as part of a reading group and I’ll say up front that this is not my usual genre. There are eight stories in the volume. Six involve a female protagonist who seeks and finds love. One is a cautionary tale from the perspective of an 18-year-old girl about the perils of … More Lightning in the Snow, short stories by Virginia Babcock [Review]
Lethal Voyage is nominated for the 2021 RONE Award (Review Of Novel Excellence), sponsored by InD’Tale Magazine. The contest has three stages. The first stage is to get an excellent review from the magazine’s editorial staff. Lethal Voyage received a 5-star “Crowned Heart of Excellence” rating from InD’Tale’s editors. “Filled with action, drama, and surprising … More VOTE! for Lethal Voyage for the 2021 RONE Award.
On April 22, Lethal Voyage was named a Finalist for the 2020 CLUE Award for Thriller & Suspense fiction, awarded annually by the Chanticleer Book Review Lethal Voyage will now be considered for the best-in-category 1st place award (Police Procedurals), one of the 5 categories within the CLUE — and the overall CLUE Award, which … More Lethal Voyage named FINALIST for the 2020 CLUE Award!
“You think you can guess where a book is going? Good luck. This is one of the most original plots I can remember.” The mind sleuth series from Bruce Perrin is filled with original plots, psychological investigations, and richly drawn characters. They are also exceptionally well-written, making them a pleasure to read. The Mind … More From the Mind of a Witch, by Bruce Perrin [Review]
Every Jets fan needs to own this book! … More Beyond Broadway Joe: The Super Bowl TEAM That Changed Football, by Bob Lederer [Review]
Bruce Perrin’s next installment of his Mind Sleuth series, Mind in the Clouds, asks the philosophical and psychological question: how much control should we let artificial intelligence have over important decisions — like on the battlefield? When the protagonist, Sam “Doc” Price, faces existential peril at the mercy of an IA-powered autonomous war drone, the … More Mind in the Clouds, by Bruce Perrin [Review]
The Chanticleer Book Review has announced the last cut of nominees for the 2020 CLUE Award (for mystery/suspense/thriller novels) — the Semi-Finalists. Although both Deadly Enterprise and Lethal Voyage were named to the Short List, only Lethal Voyage survived the cut to the Semi-Finalist list. The finalists for each of the five sub-categories within the … More Lethal Voyage named a semi-finalist for the 2020 CLUE Award
Righteous Assassin, book #1 in the Mike Stoneman Thriller Series, was a Semi-Finalist for the 2019 CLUE Award. Both Lethal Voyage and Deadly Enterprise made the Short List for the 2020 award (I just got in under the submission deadline for the newer book). Only Lethal Voyage advanced to the Semi-Finalist group for the 2020 … More Lethal Voyage named CLUE Award Semi-Finalist
This novella introduces the Galactic Culinary Society, a multi-species organization dedicated to exploring the galaxy looking for unique food experiences. Here, the search is for the legendary edible sonnets of Umami – poetry you can taste – which hasn’t been experienced in two hundred years. Our hero, Jeane Oberon, is a human who must match … More The Secrets of Umami (The Galactic Culinary Society) by D. R. Schoel [Review]
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