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Kendra Lund, PhD

Ghost writer, book doctor, copy editor, proofreader, writing coach, book designer, publishing consultant New Age – Spirituality – Memoir – Lifestyle – Architecture Kendra Lund, PhD, is a book doctor, book editor, author, writing coach, and publishing consultant. Kendra specializes in books on the spiritual end of the self-help spectrum, along with memoir writing and fiction. She is a passionate …

Author Interview: Clayborne Taylor, Jr., Science Fiction Series Writer

Review and interview by editor Marie Valentine From an early age, Clayborne Taylor, Jr. spent endless hours pursuing his interests in science and technology. That includes everything from hard sciences to reaching out in an effort to perceive possible technological advances in the future. Finally, electrical engineering provided the best fit to his thirst to push for advances in technology. …

Book Review: Scenic Utah by Mike Bahl

Review of Scenic Utah by Mike Bahl with author interview by Marie Valentine, Editor Mike Bahl and I became friends when I published two of his stories in a chapbook collaboration for a publishing festival in Milwaukee. I expressed admiration for Mike’s writing and offered to be his early reader and editor. He’s become one of my favorite contemporary …

Book Review: Eat Mangoes Naked

Book Review: Eat Mangoes Naked: Finding Pleasure Everywhere, by S.A.R.K. By James N. Powell Book Editor, Book Editing Associates Book-Editing.com, Editing-Writing.com First of all, my life is–most fundamentally considered–nothing but an ode to the mango, to any one of which I could hymn, while reasonably sober: Desnuda eres tan simple como una de tus manos or Desnuda eres azul como …

THE MONK: THE BEST GOTHIC NOVEL YOU’VE NEVER READ

By Sara Hopkins For years my sister and I have had a friendly competition: come Christmastime, we gift each other the most obscure yet awesome book we can find. Since we both love this tradition, we spend most of the year rummaging through used book bins and scanning Amazon.com reviews, constantly searching for that perfect novel, the one that is …

Book Review: A Hatful of Cherries by Felix Calvino

James N. Powell In the native tongue of Tahiti, ponui means “the immense night,” the magical, creative, and dark womb from whence our dreaming, our lovemaking, and our visions of spirits blossom forth. Haunting the soul of much Spanish literature dwells ponui by another name: duende. Duende is ‘aesthetic darkness.’ Lorca wrote that “duende, then, is a power, not a …

Book Review: On Thermonuclear War, by Herman Kahn

By James N. Powell Book Editor, Book Editing Associates Book-Editing.com, Editing-Writing.com My dad worked with Herman Kahn in a group that came to be known as “the megadeath intellectuals.” I have heard that Kahn was reputed to have had the highest IQ ever measured. These men were the architects of NATO’s strategic posture vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. (In their …

Book Review: The Horse, the Wheel and Language

The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, by David W. Anthony James N. Powell, Book Editor Book Editing Associates Editing-Writing.com One of the things I did in grad school was to become a Proto-Indo-European otaku, a long, lonely voyage into the dark and uncharted seas of PIE myth and …

Book Review: Pluto, Animal Lover

Book Review: Pluto, Animal Lover, by Laren Stover (Goodreads Author) By James N. Powell Book Editor, Book Editing Associates Book-Editing.com, Editing-Writing.com Some viewers of No Country for Old Men will remember it as a film they didn’t want to yield to, but couldn’t resist; a similar current of emotions kept me clawing through the pages of Pluto, Animal Lover. …

New Fiction Book Review: Prepared by Lindsay K. Mason

Prepare yourself for some morbid laughs; self-published author desired control over the product, quicker release by Marie Valentine Author Lindsay K. Mason (photo left) “Prepared,” the debut literary fiction novel from Lindsay K. Mason, features the intertwined lives of a colorful staff of morticians. If you enjoy slightly morbid human stories told with compassion and humor, this book is for …

Readings in Chinese Literary Thought | By Stephen Owen

Book review by James N. Powell One old Chinese tale tells of a Daoist hermit who was given to meditation in his small bamboo hut, concealed among waterfalls and mountain mists. One day some dour-faced Confucians do-gooders made their way to his hut, stepped inside, and saw him sitting there stark naked, absorbed in meditation in the immensity of the …

Book Review: Dancing with Statues By Caroline Doherty de Novoa

by Marie Valentine Editor and Proofreader Editing-Writing.com Book-Editing.com This novel from a unique and talented voice in contemporary literature offers a romantic cultural mingling that is at times hilarious as well as heartbreaking. The characters will stay with you long after the story ends. Part of the book’s magic is its unique combination of characters. From the big city of …

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