Articles by Steve Semken

Update: Ice Cube Press true life murder mystery book Brother’s Blood: A Heartland Cain and Abel has been optioned by USA network’s Sirens star Michael Mosley. The book that is featured on Discovery Investigation’s television channel watch on YouTube Book available direct or through amazon.com, kindle, or nook A real-life crime drama recounted by Scott […]

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A bitter row with his father caused Henry Hollis to move north to ante-bellum New York. Years later he returns home to the rugged mountains of Tennessee on the North Carolina border, drawn by his father’s peace offering, an extensive but extremely remote tract in the highest reaches of the Quachasee watershed. […]

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Sneezing Coyotes | Salvatore Marici | $19.99 | 9781948509312 | Poetry | Travel | Interview with Writer’s Voices Read the Toasted Cheese piece  Read book review Review at Toasted Cheese Engaging interview on WVIK-NPR on Talking Art A short interesting interview with the author on Des Moines’ Culture Buzz Show Watch this interview with the […]

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Post-Modern Blues: love, lost loves, mortality, time, death, sex, connection, a soupçon of politics, the weather, and the vicissitudes of daily distraction—and yet more love, because obsessions do not change. […]

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Long time Midwest artists Craig Campbell and Priscilla Steele give us a unique, entertaining, colorful, and fascinating take on a seemingly everyday topic—devising a fully transformed adventure full of magic and charm. There are stories all around us and this one moves from the heart of creativity … […]

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