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Salem West is a corn fed overachiever from the lower Midwest, who studied hard, practiced religiously, spiked her qualifying exams, and earned a graduate degree in Public Policy from Vanderbilt. She spent more than twenty-five years managing environmental, nuclear, process safety, and security groups and contracts for a bevy of Beltway Bandits in Washington, D.C. In 2011, sanity prevailed and she retired from these pursuits to found her breakout blog, The Rainbow Reader. The blog combines homespun essays with queer-centric perspectives in book reviews that cover a wide swath of literature. In 2012, she was invited to write pre-release reviews for award-winning authors, Carol Anshaw and John Irving. Hoosier Daddy: A Heartland Romance is her ...more

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What I Did On My Summer Vacation by Salem West

Photo by Couture AllureRemember when you were young, and every fall, when you returned to school, one of your very first assignments was to write an essay on what you did over your summer vacation?
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	Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan (Goodreads Author), Salem West (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	June Magee, R.N., Festival Nurse by Ann McMan (Goodreads Author), Salem West (Goodreads Author), Barrett (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons by John Copenhaver (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Salem West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Margot Douaihy (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons by Various, Salem West (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Digging for Home by Lynn Ames (Goodreads Author), Ann McMan (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Salem West (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Food Stories: An Otherworldly Feast for the Living, the Dead, and Those Who Have Yet to Decide by Salem West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christel Cogneau (Editor), Anna Burke 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hoosier Daddy: A Heartland Romance by Ann McMan (Goodreads Author), Salem West (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rainbow Reader 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars