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May 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
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“The Cheese Biscuit Queen Kiss My Aspic!” by Mary Martha Greene
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Are you hungry? Because if you are, Mary Martha Greene will send you straight into the kitchen with her new book, The Cheese Biscuit Queen Kiss My Aspic!. You’re probably not going to get past the first couple of recipes in this book before you have to gather your ingredients and make one of them. […]
Mary Ellen Thompson interviews Mary Martha Greene, author of “The Cheese Biscuit Queen Kiss My Aspic!”
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Introduction: I have known Mary Martha Greene for years and have consumed more of her famous cheese biscuits than I care to admit. If there is a cocktail party in the lowcountry of South Carolina that doesn’t have a plate of her cheese biscuits—well, I won’t cast aspersions. Mary Martha’s newest book, The Cheese Biscuit […]
“Good Eye, Bad Eye” by Jeanne Malmgren
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Readers of Jeanne Malmgren’s engaging memoir, Good Eye, Bad Eye, will find the universal themes and the clarity of her writing style appealing. From her personal story of trauma following a childhood eye injury, life truths emerge as Jeanne struggles to find her way in the world. This is not another poor-pitiful-me memoir. Instead, it […]
Donna Meredith interviews Sara Warner, author of “Horse People”
May 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Introduction: While I haven’t met Sara Warner in person that I can recall, she did live in Tallahassee for a time, as do I, so I have been aware of her as a writer. I recall meeting her husband Pete LeForge, who is also a writer, at an event sponsored years ago by the Leon […]
May 2025 Books of Note: Jim Melvin’s “Do You Believe in Magic?” and Jack Woodville London’s “Dangerous Latitudes”
May 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Do You Believe in Magic? (Green Bird Publishing 2025) by Jim Melvin is a highly imaginative fantasy novel starring three thirteen year olds who find themselves transformed from middle school outsiders into leaders with special powers when they travel through a portal into a parallel world. Billed as “Book One of the Dark Circle Trilogy,” […]