June 10th, 2011 
Lorna D. Keach 
Let’s be honest with ourselves; many of us do not expect great things from small press publishers. (Many of us don’t expect great things from big box publishers, but that’s an altogether different rant.) But just because we may not expect great things does not mean there’s not a ton of very talented people working [...]
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No Comments » May 14th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
I’ll admit; the first reason I wanted to read Jonathan Moon’s novel, Heinous, was because of all the cover blurbs. I’d heard about the book through various channels and I kept seeing words like “disturbing” and “mesmerizing” associated with it—along with more than one reference to one’s inner child getting brutally pummeled by the story. [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews Tags: gore, Heinous, horror fiction, horror writers, horrorcore, Jonathan Moon, more gore, novel, some gore 3 Comments » March 31st, 2011 Jessica Brown [Note: Crossposted from Defiled Curator] Seeing as how my Facebook feed is comprised mainly of fellow authors, many of them small-press or self-published (and who are, by and large, absolutely phenomenal; I could devote an entire post to just listing the excellent works of friends and associates I’ve been exposed to over the last few [...]
November 4th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
First, a word of warning; I probably shouldn’t be reviewing books. For one, I’m a Literature major, and that ruins the fun of reading much like a root canal ruins the fun of having teeth. For two, I am a miserable, mean-spirited harpy of a woman who finds very little joy in the world other [...]
July 24th, 2010 Jessica Brown “When someone you love dies, should you masturbate?” – Opening line, “Prescription for Grief” I have to admit, as I have so many times before, that I am a sucker for covers. If I’m in a bookshop and I happen to spot, out of the corner of my eye, a title I am completely unknowledgeable [...]
June 16th, 2010 Jessica Brown I’ve been a hardcore book lover since childhood. At some point, whether in childhood or my early teens, certain preferences began to rule over my choices in reading material. I found myself reading mostly horror, with a concentration on vampires, and for years that’s all I paid attention to. If I went to the local [...]
June 13th, 2010 Jessica Brown [Note: Review originally appeared on New Reads and Old Standbys in December 2009.] Sometimes you hear about a book through word of mouth, not through reviews or advertisements, and it seems so interesting that you immediately go out and pick up a copy to find out for yourself just what this work is all about. [...]
June 1st, 2010 Jessica Brown I am relatively new to this whole “urban fantasy” thing. I’ll come right out and admit that the Jim Butcher novel I’ve owed for several years is still sitting unread on my shelf (as is the Sookie Stackhouse book – hey, there’s only so much time in a day. I’ll get around to it eventually.) [...]
May 22nd, 2010 Jessica Brown I’ve been a very bad reviewer as of late. There are reasons for this, some acceptable and some not so much. On the legitimate front, I had a difficult semester with two intense lecture/lab combinations that left my daytime schedule rather full. In the evenings, I had work until bedtime. I still do, most nights. [...]
April 2nd, 2010 Jessica Brown Being a book reviewer certainly has its perks. I recently read and reviewed Jason S. Hornsby’s Every Sigh, the End, a wonderfully dense and thoroughly acidic take on both popular culture and apocalyptic paranoia. Since reading ESTE, I’d heard that he’d been working on a second novel, and had even read a free download of [...]
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