Excerpt from Unsettled: A Novel by Patricia Reis

SIOUX CREEK FARM, IOWA  December 31, 1899  An excerpt from Unsettled by Patricia Reis Careful not to disturb her sleeping husband, Letty inched noiselessly out of bed, wrapped her shawl around her nightgown, and tiptoed barefoot down the stairs. Her nerves were too jumpy for sleep. In the kitchen, she adjusted the wick in the kerosene lamp to give just … Read More

The Holy Grail of Stories About the Orphan Train: The Mothers Left Behind

In October, a woman in 1859 mourning attire will be getting off the trains in Newburgh, Albany, and Buffalo, New York, for a series of in-person and livestreamed events about the Orphan Trains and the mothers left behind. The event is coordinated in partnership libraries, bookstores, and historical societies throughout New York State.  Author Julia Park Tracey is on a … Read More

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