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No Sweat has painted a portrait of a man caught in the web of his times, a victim turned survivor, a player in the eponymous reality show of hand-to-mouth grubbing and a victor who has circumvented conventionality and apparent destiny to become a psychical congregate of paradoxical array. More than just being entertained, I learned from this book and felt immersed in its singular culture, as though I had spent years exploring his world. It has the distinguishing earmarks of a masterpiece-vibrant plot, memorable characters, bucolic setting, with the personal touch of the sensitive diarist. H is an intuitive and imaginative author par excellence. I give this new work by No Sweat my highest recommendation, both as a licensed therapist and voracious reader. I look forward to seeing future offerings by this exciting new author. Sara L. Griffith, LMFT

The poems in Poems Are Dangerous Necessities tell two stories in one. As a novel, it depicts two main characters, an artist, Modigliani, who writes poetry about his first love, Anna Akhmatova, and creates art inspired by their love affair that began when her husband Nikolai Gumilev took her to Paris on their honeymoon. The second character is a poet who wants to be an artist. He begins to paint after he discovers Modigliani's nudes, his women who would seem unshapely were they clothed.

Directionally Challenged knows where it is going. The poems flow from gentle observations of people, beauty and the world to cancer, infidelity, and drug abuse then on to a goodbye to a beloved family member. Directionally Challenged will take you places. Open it up and enjoy the ride.

Journeys is a novel about a young man who goes to Nashville before the Civil War to buy a horse for his father. It is also a story about the horse and a young slave woman. The young man, Cry, gets recruited by General George Thomas. As a member of General Thomas' intelligence network, Cry gives the reader an accurate, historical account of one of the most successful Generals of that conflict.

"You can tell that Darlene Franklin-Campbell is a poet right from the get-go. Her descriptions are so evocative they just sing off the page. This bittersweet tale of a poor Kentucky family and their loves and losses is told by Nochipa (Chippie) whose father is Mexican and whose mother is white. Racial tensions from both within the family and in the wider community run high. But somehow the family survives and comes through it all despite the odds. I Listened, Momma isn't the sort of novel where everything is all tied up at the end with a pretty little bow. A cousin is suspected of causing a death but escapes the justice he probably deserves. Central characters pass away. This isn't a sugar-coated reality, but authentic and honest; something of a modern day Little Women. If the quality of the story-telling alone wasn't sufficient to persuade you that this book is worth buying, all author proceeds are being donated to Relay for Life in honor of her own father...." --- Kate Blackman Editorial Services

Travis Blair is a Texas poet. His third book of poetry is full of Texas characters, places, and culture. Reviews of Hazy Red and Diesel Grey are positive and highlight the poet's use of language, images, and feelings.

Kenneth Croslin has written his family's personal stories in this collection that covers 100 years from 1910 until 2010. These stories present a look at the cultural and historical dynamics of a Kentucky sharecropper's family during America's Great Depression, as well as the war years that preceded and followed it.

BLACK BLUEGRASS is a 104 page collection of 12 short stories which are primarily based in Kentucky. "Two of the stories are set in Madison County." "One, entitled, Miracle on East Irvine, concerns the death of three men who supposedly freeze to death. The other, FORT BOONESBOROUGH, involves No Sweat's imaginary excavations conducted there. Several of the stories are set in Estill County and one is in Jessamine County, The only story not set in Kentucky is one about a Kentucky hillbilly living on an island in the Bahamas called, Eleuthera. All his works are unadulterated fiction."

To read these poems, is to experience in often violently powerful and unexpected language the reality of being a woman, mother, daughter, and lover in this age of inequity masquerading as opportunity. As readers despite the often-dark universe in which we are submerged, certain characteristics emerge that let us know that hope is out there. Mathew Retoske

Poetry from Appalachia, rural Kentucky, and the region, sprinkled with the mix of national and international seasonings.

Dorothy Sutton's previous books of poetry are Backing Into Mountains (Wind Publications, 2009) and Startling Art (Finishing Line Press,1999), nominated for a Pushcart Award. Her work appears in such noted journals and anthologies as Poetry; Norton Critical Edition: Darwin; The Hudson Review; Poetry Ireland Review; Poetry Wales; Southern Review; Antioch Review; Prairie Schooner; Virginia Quarterly Review; and Quadrant (Australia), among many others. She has given scores of poetry readings across the U.S., and in Ireland.

A manual for Principals and Education Administrators that will help them keep new teachers in the classroom and out of court.

McLaughlin's poems are places with felt presences in them. Her poems' evocative imagery, her masterful concreteness invites you into them, and the poems engagingly haunt you after you have read them and think you have put them away. You haven't. Everett Hoagland, former Poet Laureate from New Bedford, MA

James De Forest's novel is magical and romantic. Dancer is protected by his mother, a Shaman's daughter who is the tribal Keeper of Legends. She knows what is happening to Dancer during the war in Vietnam, on a college campus, during emergency surgery, and on the basketball court. She protects her son through others.

For his second collection, At the Foot of a Mountain, Kevin J. McDaniel's speakers wrestle with what feel like traumatic moments, moments (big or small) in a person's life when he or she believes an "entire mountainside" will come crashing down, as the speaker laments in the chapbook's title poem, "At the Foot of a Mountain." Nevertheless, by the end, readers are encouraged by the speaker's hope in a rebirth: "but I know spring/will come again on wings/of a gentler breeze that uplifts/saplings rooted sideways/in moonmilk underground."