In September of 2017, Intoxic was in the running for Underground Book Reviews Pitch Perfect award. I was thrilled with the honor of being...

We've been at our current school for two years now. It's the longest my kids have been in a single system. My oldest started school...

We had safe travels back from Illinois, and while we had a happily exhausting trip, it's always good to be again at the Beech House. I...

When you come home, you have the pleasure of running into people you haven't seen in a long time, and you also hear the stories that have...

We arrived in Charleston on Tuesday in the mid-afternoon after spending a pleasant last morning visiting with my mother near Springfield....

I didn't manage an indie book for this week. We are gearing up for the holidays and time is hectic. I doubt I will do any official...

I have a natural interest in history and when I was in high school I did a lot of reading about World War II. I have uncles who had...

Celadon by Ian Haight is a collection of poems that I suspect will walk with me for many years. Haight is masterful in his creation of...

By nature I am a fan of fables, fairytales, and legends so when I came across John Lubans' Fables for Leaders, there was no way I could...

I had the pleasure of meeting JD Jordan at the Dekalb Author Expo a couple of months ago. There were upwards of 40 local authors there...

I have a book that I was planning to review for you today, but I'm afraid I won't do it justice, yet. So instead of giving you a review,...

T.L. Curtis is a poet who started her career as a mental health therapist and is very versed in the variables that play a role in the...

Tom Hoffman’s Orville Mouse and the Puzzle of the Last Metaphonium was a joy to read. Hoffman opens with a dream sequence that sets the...

I'm a transplant to the South. I was raised in East Central Illinois in the heart of farm country. I have had the opportunity to live...

I read The Fall by Silvia Cristina Valentini in one sitting. It’s a novel based on true events and through most of the novel I was...

I made a return visit the the sci-fi / fantasy realm with this weeks read. Xenosaber, Fury of the Stars by Jedaiah Ramnarine is a fast...

David Allman is one of the first indie published writers I met last year when I started promoting Intoxic. We met at a local book...

Nancy O’Hare’s Dust in My Pack is part of a new generation of travel books. This book, and others like it, is an adventure log, a...

Jack Meacham’s new book, Talking Sense About Politics, How to Overcome Political Polarization in Your Next Conversation, is an...

I would like to preface this review by telling you that I read this book twice. It was good, very good in fact, and it is profoundly...