About Your Review . . .

About Your Review . . . By Sheli Ellsworth As a fellow writer, I would like to give every book I read a five-star review! I love the uniqueness and idiosyncrasies of each and every one. However, as a book reviewer, I realize this system would quickly result in the...
When I Review…

When I Review…

  WHEN I REVIEW… By Jane Manaster Before I start to review a book, whether a chosen or designated one, I study the outside of it. I inspect the cover, the blurbs, the font and, lately, the trendy color of paper as it’s sometimes so muddy I can’t read the text....
When I Review…

Who Was Borges?

Who Was Borges?  Was He Not Also the Fantasy Writer Who Inspired The Borg? By Ryder W. Miller   “Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation…. We have our own homegrown Borges.”  -Ursula K. Leguin, The New...

A Writer’s Dream

  The Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) annual conference took place July 25-28, 2013, and I was a second-time attendee. The conference occurs the last weekend of July, in Seattle (a great city to visit anytime, but especially in late July). I have...