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Book Review of Curse of the Maestro by US Review of Books (Walker)

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  GT Walker's book, Curse of the Maestro , recently received a great review from US Review of Books. "Readers with a darker sense of humor and a love of imaginative, even silly predicaments will be smiling throughout this riotous read." Read the whole review HERE . Book Description: A psychopath's scented love letters. Neo-Nazi music journalism. The museum guestbook, right beside a lifelike diorama of musicians in their natural habitat. This collection of hybrid fiction is all that remains of the Stonehaven Symphony Orchestra. In the aftermath of their fiery tour bus mishap,  Curse of the Maestro  documents the lives, loves, and musical pursuits of tuxedo-clad misfits in their own words, a shameless allegory for the performing arts today. Characters from the gamut of racial and sexual orientations drive these short stories, unreliable narrators exploring the secret trenches of high art. Fearless readers will embark upon an almost archaeological excavation of these art...

See What US Review of Books Says about The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired!

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  "With a touch of humor and admirable self-awareness, ...  James offers up a quirky, sardonic guide for navigating the workforce and life as an independent, outspoken, middle-aged woman. " The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired  by Kelly James received a great review from US Review of Books. Read the full review  HERE . Book description: You're 52. Divorced. Single mom to a teenaged son and a tween daughter. Happily self-employed but worried about the cost of health insurance, the inevitable impact of perimenopause on your body, and whether you should keep dating a sexy plumber who's sweet and funny but lives an hour away and doesn't seem that into you. So, after 22 years of fulltime freelancing, you take a day job as a tiny, creaky cog in the corporate American machine where you're decades older than most of your coworkers - and you write about it. The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired: A Year in Corporate America is an entertaining, midlife memoir that shares wh...

US Review of Books Critiques Kelly James' Book, The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired

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  Kelly James, author of the newly released, popular book  The Book That Almost Got Me Fired , was recently US Review of Books. Says the reviewer, Joslyn Vann, " James offers up a quirky, sardonic guide for navigating the workforce and life as an independent, outspoken, middle-aged woman."  Read the full review HERE . #3 ON AMAZON'S LIST OF HOT NEW RELEASES FOR NEARLY A MONTH Book description: You're 52. Divorced. Single mom to a teenaged son and a tween daughter. Happily self-employed but worried about the cost of health insurance, the inevitable impact of perimenopause on your body, and whether you should keep dating a sexy plumber who's sweet and funny but lives an hour away and doesn't seem that into you. So, after 22 years of fulltime freelancing, you take a day job as a tiny, creaky cog in the corporate American machine where you're decades older than most of your coworkers - and you write about it. The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired: A Year in Corp...

Oldies (before this blog existed) But Goodies (really good to know): Book Review of Lessons of Labor (Aziz) from US Review of Books

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Because we had published a number of very good books before starting this blog, books that to this day have a growing fan club, we consider it important to share some "oldies but goodies" with our readers. Today's oldie-but-goodie is a review of Lessons of Labor (Julia Aziz) from Readers' Favorite. Says USR:  Aziz's lessons touch the lives of every woman, no matter their walk in life. Read the review here:  Book Reviews - The US Review of Books: Professional Book Reviews . For more posts by and about Julia and her book, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date)   Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC?  We help writers become award-winning published authors. One writer at a time. We are a family, not a factory. Do you have a future with us?...