Star Reviewers
Star Reviewers are successful members of the publishing and writing communities who have agreed to share some of their knowledge with members of the site. Writing members who receive and give consistently good feedback and whose work shows promise are selected to receive a Star Review.
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Currently Active Star Reviewers
Paul BagdonPaul Bagdon has published 30 novels, his latest, Partners (Dorchester/Leisure) was released last month. He is an instructor at the Writers Digest Online Workshop and his critiques and reviews of manuscripts provided to him by Writers Digest have appeared dozens of times in the last few years – the latest in the March issue of the magazine. He enjoys working with writers and several of his students have sold novels, short stories, and articles. |
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Terri Brown-DavidsonDr. Brown-Davidson is a member of the full-time fiction and poetry faculty at Gotham Writers’ Workshop, where she teaches the Master Class in Fiction and--in the collaboration between GWW and Zoetrope: All-Story--Zoetrope Basic Fiction, Zoetrope Advanced Fiction, and the Zoetrope Master Class in Fiction. She is also an assistant editor at Zoetrope: All-Story and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and eight Pushcart Prizes for her fiction and poetry, including, most recently, by In Posse Review for a novel excerpt on Diane Arbus. |
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Maria GanadoMaria Ganado received her tertiary education at the Universitites of Malta, Cambridge and Heidelberg. She was the first woman to be appointed a Full-Time Lecturer at the University of Malta where she lectured in English Literature. She has published five volumes of verse – three in Maltese (Izda Mhux Biss, Skond Eva & Fil-Hofra Bejn Spallejha - the first winning the National Book Council’s Prize in 2002) and two in English, (Ribcage & Cracked Canvas) and has been translated from Maltese into English, French, Italian and German, and from English into French, Greek and Spanish. Her work has been extensively published in England, France, Italy and Cyprus, and she has been invited to symposia, readings, book fairs, festivals in Cyprus, Wales, Germany and Italy. In 2000, she received a national award, the MQR, for Service to the Republic. |
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Aury WallingtonAury Wallington is the author of the young adult novel Pop!, due out from Razorbill Books next spring, and four books in the series adaptation of The O.C. She was the winner of the 1999 MTV Fiction contest. Aury's television writing credits include Sex and the City, Veronica Mars, and Pure Sunshine, a pilot she wrote for Sony Television. She is currently writing for the new CBS comedy Everything I Know About Men. |
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Ian HockingIan Hocking's short fiction has been published widely. His first book, Déjá Vu, was published by the UKA Press in early 2005. The book has been described as 'a solid technothriller' by SFX and as 'showing quiet skill' by The Guardian. Screenwriter Ian Watson called it 'gripping, fascinating and powerful'. Ian Hocking recently completed his second novel and is now working on a sequel to ´Déjá Vu. Ian maintains a website here. |
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Debra HamelDebra Hamel is the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece published by Yale University press and now available in paperback. The Sunday Telegraph calls Trying Neaira a "gripping story of politics, sex and sleaze in ancient Athens...." while The Erotic Review writes that Hamel "turns one of antiquity's more fibrous epochs into a lively and witty slice of history, and gives us a story of cupidity, greed and obduracy, spiced with sexual morsels." She is also the founder of the highly regarded book sites book-blog.com and buyafriendabook.com. |
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Diana LaurenceDiana Laurence is the author of SOULFUL SEX: EROTIC TALES OF FANTASY AND ROMANCE, which was an EPPIE 2005 finalist for best e-book anthology. Soulful Sex has also spent over a year in the top ten ebook romances on Amazon.com, and the expanded paperback version received four stars from Romantic Times BOOKclub. Diana a monthly columnist for two websites: eCataRomance, for which she writes "The Life of e," about epublishing, and Novelspot, for which she writes "Explorotica," about erotica. Diana also operates the Blog "Erotica with Soul, Musings on the healthy and spiritual experience of the erotic." Visit Diana's website. |
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New Star Reviewers are being added constantly so check back to view the list. |
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