Elisabeth Rhoads

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Elisabeth Rhoads is the author of Haggard House and numerous short stories. She holds a BA in Theatre and is the Vice-President of the California Writers Club, Orange County branch.

Originally from Michigan, she now lives in California with her husband, and enjoys learning Japanese, fermenting foods of all types—although mainly kombucha—and pretends to enjoy exercise-related activities, such as kayaking and running.

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Jana Brooke Wallack’s “Naked Girl,” is equally heartbreaking and hope-making. From the opening in the Prologue, until the last line, you can’t help but identify with, and feel for, the characters—Sienna and Siddhartha—as they grow up in such chaos an ...more
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Carla Fountain's book about her odyssey around the world on bicycle was such a lovely read. Carla has that rare gift in writing of being able to place you in the scene, without overly describing it.

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I loved these stories by Lisa Cupolo. They tug at your heartstrings, and leave you sometimes sad, sometimes hopeful, sometimes longing.

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Stories that Resonate

This is a beautiful collection that sometimes resonates so much, you feel as if they’re real. From the minute details that place you in the scene, to the banter between characters, you feel like a fly on the wall during moments
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Poetic and Yearning—For Something That’s Been Lost…Or Never Really Was

I loved Crissy Van Meter’s CREATURES. The island setting, the vivid characters, and the inter-spliced second person narratives, are just part of the novel’s charm. Beyond that is
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