fiction Archives — McKenzie Lynn Tozan

There’s a New Series Coming! How Do I Submit?

Happy Sunday! I’m grateful to announce the re-launch of my Poem of the Day Series, in addition to my new arrivals, Favorite Fiction Friday and Saturday Spotlight. Read on to see how to submit!

Fiction, Reviews & Interviews

Book Review Up at BookPage!

Here is a link to my review of K. Arsenault Rivera’s THE PHOENIX EMPRESS, available now over at BookPage.

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Hello Fall! Here’s What’s Coming in October.

Hi everyone and Happy Tuesday! And HAPPY FALL! This is my favorite-favorite time of year: the weather is just how I like it, I love…

Fiction, Reviews & Interviews

To the New York Times Book Review, Domestic Violence is Never Funny: A Response Review of Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau

Readers, let me explain first that I am not one to contest reviews, whether overly positive, unconstructively negative, or anything in-between. But when a…

Reviews & Interviews

Commitment & The Portrayal of a Wife: Reading Rebecca St. James & Nancy Rue’s One Last Thing

I will not lie to you, from one reader to another, this was a difficult book and topic to trudge through. It follows the…

Fiction, Reviews & Interviews

The Two (or More?) Sides of Friendship: Reading Rufi Thorpe’s The Girls from Corona del Mar

We all have to grow up someday. And some of us are dealt a better hand than others—some during our childhood, others later in…

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Counting Down to the New Year: Five of My Favorite Books of 2014

Happy New Year, all! I hope you had a wonderful celebration of the upcoming new year and were able to spend some time recounting…

Fiction, Reviews & Interviews

The Surrealist and Bodily Nature of Grief: Reading Kristin Bair O’Keeffe’s The Art of Floating

Even when you read regularly, it takes time to find something truly great; but every once in a while, there will be a book,…

Fiction, Reviews & Interviews

A Unique Design of Women and Culture: Reading Desiree Zamorano’s The Amado Women

After reading Désirée Zamorano’s The Amado Women, many readers have claimed to have found a new story with women who are more properly, culturally…

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Joseph Conrad’s “Advice on Writing a Novel”

I. “I have not read this author’s books, and if I have read them I have forgotten what they were about.” These words are reported…

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There’s a New Series Coming! How Do I Submit?

Book Review Up at BookPage!

Hello Fall! Here’s What’s Coming in October.

To the New York Times Book Review, Domestic Violence is Never Funny: A Response Review of Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau

Commitment & The Portrayal of a Wife: Reading Rebecca St. James & Nancy Rue’s One Last Thing

The Two (or More?) Sides of Friendship: Reading Rufi Thorpe’s The Girls from Corona del Mar

Counting Down to the New Year: Five of My Favorite Books of 2014

The Surrealist and Bodily Nature of Grief: Reading Kristin Bair O’Keeffe’s The Art of Floating

A Unique Design of Women and Culture: Reading Desiree Zamorano’s The Amado Women

Joseph Conrad’s “Advice on Writing a Novel”

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