Excerpt from These Broken Roads by Donna Marie Hayes

The Eyes of Handsome Men 2016 An excerpt from These Broken Roads by Donna Marie Hayes I check my reflectIon In my powder compact. I am pleased with the golden-brown glitter eye shadow, cat-eye in- spired liner, topped off with a delicate, pink-colored lip gloss. People hurry along the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the biting January cold as … Read More

Excerpt from The Rotting Whale by Jann Eyrich

The Rotting Whale: Chapter 1 Excerpt from The Rotting Whale by Jann Eyrich Hugo Sandoval, San Francisco’s quixotic native son, stared out his kitchen window for reassurance. It calmed him to watch the dawn grace the little white houses of the City below, its gentle whispers of light bleeding through the fog, creating shad- ows on the eastern face of … Read More

It’s PUB day for The Rotting Whale, the first in the Hugo Sandoval Eco-Mystery Series!

Introducing Hugo Sandoval and a New Eco-Mystery Series When the natural and built world collide, the Earth needs a good building inspector San Francisco (September 26, 2023) — The novel, The Rotting Whale by Jann Eyrich, published by Sibylline Press, is the first in the new Hugo Sandoval Eco-Mystery Series. The series introduces San Francisco’s eccentric building inspector Hugo Sandoval, … Read More

Excerpt from Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir

A Day on the Bay Excerpt from Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir by Susannah Kennedy The Bay brings wind and sea lions and crabs, blues and grays, weighted-down Chinese freighters plowing under the bridges, and the iconic dooooop foghorn from Alcatraz. Fishermen may earn their success by knowing what is under the water—the currents and the poisons. But in my … Read More