Kate Padilla

Kate Padilla

Kate Padilla is an author, poet and artist. Her book, Apples Rot on the Ground (May 2020), is a collection of gut-wrenching poems detailing the racism and bigotry that existed for Hispanic families in early New Mexico & Wyoming.
Review: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

Review: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

Review: The Invisible Hour, Alice Hoffman, Atria – Author Alice Hoffman offers us a timely, and harrowing, historical fantasy in her novel, “The Invisible Hour,” which harkens back to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 classic, “The Scarlet Letter.”

Book Review: Charles Portis, Collected Works

Book Review: Charles Portis, Collected Works

Book Review: Charles Portis, Collected Works, Editor, Jay Jennings, Library of America – The Library of America offers homage in a new collected works edition to American author Charles Portis, whose notoriety springs from his novel, “True Grit,” that was transformed into a popular 1968 feature film starring John Wayne.

Book Review: Where Waters Meet by Zhang Ling

Book Review: Where Waters Meet by Zhang Ling

Book Review, Where Waters Meet, Zhang Ling, Amazon Crossing – “Where Waters Meet” is a multiplex novel that resembles pieces of a puzzle on a table. Award-winning Chinese author Zhang Ling, in her first English work

Review: The Boy Behind the Door by David Tabatsky

Review: The Boy Behind the Door by David Tabatsky

Review: The Boy Behind the Door, David Tabatsky, Amsterdam Publishers – Another book about the holocaust? Yes, so as not to let the horrors fade away, “The Boy Behind the Door,” offers us a true account of how Salomon Kool survived the holocaust.

Review: Hotel Laguna by Nicola Harrison

Review: Hotel Laguna by Nicola Harrison

Review: Hotel Laguna by Nicola Harrison, St Martin’s Press – Nicola Hansen’s historical fiction, “Hotel Laguna,” set in 1945, highlights the creation of the “Pageant of the Masters” in southern California where well-known artworks are recreated live, with people in costumes.

Review: Side Effects of Wanting by Mary Salisbury

Review: Side Effects of Wanting by Mary Salisbury

Side Effects of Wanting, Mary Salisbury, Main Street Rag Publishing – Mary Salisbury’s short stories focus on human frailties in such an intimate manner it is almost as if the reader is observing, perhaps through a peephole, into her characters’ consciousness.

Review: Hollow Beasts by Alisa Lynn Valdés

Review: Hollow Beasts by Alisa Lynn Valdés

Review: Hollow Beasts, Alisa Lynn Valdés, Thomas & Mercer – Like famed Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me Ultima, known as the “godfather of Chicano literature,” and who also developed the “Sonny Baca mysteries,” Alisa Lynn Valdés, recognized as “godmother of Chica Lit,” has debuted her first thriller in the series, Hollow Beasts.

Review: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig

Review: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig

Review: Deep As the Sky, Red as the Sea, Rita Chang-Eppig, Bloomsbury Publishing – Pirate Shek Yeung, a ruthless killer with no qualms about beheading anyone who challenges her authority, co-commands a fleet of 20,000 junks (three-mast sailboats) across the South China Sea.