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On first meeting Deborah Smith Parker, you might take her for a CEO rather than an astrologer. She dresses in business clothes and talks with enthusiasm about her public policy work that involves providers and advocates of group homes for people with disabilities
Book Review
By Glenda Winders
Katherine Hon bills her first novel, “Coming of Age Song,” as a “history, mystery, romance,” but even that description doesn’t tell the whole story of this exhilarating romp of a tale. It’s also a thriller, a philosophical treatise and a study of difficult relationships. Best of all for local readers, most of the story takes place in San Diego
By Glenda Winders
SDUN Book Reviewer
Roger Conlee would have you believe there isn’t much similarity between him and Jake Weaver, the protagonist in his third novel, “The Hindenburg Letter” (Pale Horse Books). He admits he knows how to stand up for himself, as Jake does when he is verbally attacked by a military officer during a visit to the White House. And he acknowledges he was a newspaperman for many years, starting after graduation from San Diego State University at the evening Tribune in the 1960s and then moving on to the Chicago Daily News
Most people remember hearing about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana on the news and dismissing it as “crazy.” For anyone born later, it’s a historical reference so obscure that when they thoughtlessly use the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid,” they don’t even realize the painful connections
The idea of writing a book to explain what the Bible says about homosexuality came to Linda Patterson after a Christian minister at a gay pride parade bellowed through a bullhorn to her and her friends that they were all going to hell