Viewpoints
Join us weekly for Viewpoints — a variety of blogs surrounding the books we review.
Mental Wellness
Category: Self-Help, Health & Fitness
Bruce Genaro is a freelance writer living in Northern California. He received his BA from Dominican University, magna cum laude, and is a graduate of the University of San Francisco’s MFA writing program. He writes articles, short stories and essays that have appeared in various journals, literary magazines, websites, blogs, and newspapers, including the San Francisco Observer and The Huffington Post. He is a regular contributor of book reviews for both the Sacramento and the San Francisco Book Review. He can be reached at bgenaro@gmail.com
Dear Hoops
Category: Relationships & Sex
Hello there, book people! I’m Hoops and I’m here to help. Well, I’m here to try to help, at least. For the past four years I’ve been doling out advice on the interwebs that’s just a little bit different than our friend Dear Abby used to give. You see, unlike most of the experts, PhDs, so-called relationship experts you might usually see writing a column like this, I’ve actually been in a relationship or two and instead of basing my advice on scientific studies and experiments, I like to use a little thing called common sense.
Oh, and I have a penchant for telling it like it is too. You’ll find no sugar-coating or mollycoddling (I’ve always wanted to use that word professionally!) in the advice I give. I tell it like it is from the “unique” perspective of an enlightened modern, Neanderthal-like man. Scared? Don’t be. Somehow it all seems to work out in the end. It’s an advice column like no other, and I truly hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do writing it. And if you feel the need for a little armchair psychology to help with a relationship problem you’re having, just shoot me an email at dearhoops@gmail.com and I’ll do my darndest!
Click HERE to enter the world of Dear Hoops…at your own risk.
Greene Ink
Categories: Home & Garden, Writing
Meredith Greene has been a reviewer for SBR/SFBR since April of 2009; a wife of thirteen years, mother of four and self-published novelist. She, nevertheless, finds time for poetry, blogs, home projects, and gardening.
Come on over and read what Meredith has to say about home, gardening, and other general musings in her SBR column Greene Ink.
Visit Meredith’s website www.BelatorBooks.com.
Amanda and the Ferocious Feast
Category: Cooking
Kidnapped by gypsies at an early age and subsequently abandoned by the gypsies, Amanda Mitchell spent her formative years moving cross-country, from Los Angeles, California, to southern Florida to northern Wisconsin. All of these moves taught her what was really important: clothes, toys, even siblings could be replaced once you moved into your new house, but nothing could take the place of a well-loved book. Amanda’s father blames his chronic back problems on the boxes of her books he personally carried up and down dozens of flights of stairs during Amanda’s childhood.
All this reading eventually led to some writing, which eventually led to a weekly humor column for a regional Wisconsin newspaper. (To this day, no one’s really sure how that happened.) Amanda’s since given up the column, though she still writes from her new hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Through Amanda’s love of cooking, she came to write Amanda and the Ferocious Feast for SBR.
Email Amanda at theferociousfeast@gmail.com
Dominique James: The Pictorialist
Category: Photography
Dominique James, one of the most prolific SBR and SFBR reviewers, is an experienced commercial and fine art photographer currently based in New York City. For more than 25 years, he has worked on a variety of high-profile photography projects on film and digital imaging. Of special interest is his ongoing series of personal works that explore the varied aspects and dimensions of both contemporary color and black-and-white digital fine art photography. While in Asia, he established an important professional career by photographing countless famous personalities. In addition, he has done numerous commercial, advertising, entertainment and fine art photography. To date, he has presented more than 50 one-man and group photography exhibits. While he is best known for his portraiture, his scope of work is includes fashion, product, food, travel, landscape, architectural, interior, and adventure photography. His specialization today covers digital photographic imaging, digital imaging post-production management, visual conceptualization and designs. Dominique James is an international Apple Certified Professional and Apple Certified Trainer for Aperture 2. He is also an Epson Stylus Pro Photographer and a Nikon Pro Photographer in Asia. Visit the fine art photography website of Dominique James at Zatista.
Jump to Dominique’s weekly SBR column The Pictorialist.
Email Dominique at dominiquejames@mac.com.
The Critical Eye
Category: The Life of a Book Reviewer
Ross has always dabbled in the publishing arena, having been the owner of one of the most successful comic book chains in the country. His love for books led him to create his dream book review publication, where he is the co-publisher and senior editor. And, let’s not forget the most popular hat he wears: “Hey, Heidi…I have an idea.” As the senior editor for SBR and SFBR, Ross juggles about 300 new books coming in each week — getting them out to reviewers, herding the cats, and interfacing with all the publicists/publishers.
Ross will occasionally open this weekly column up to select staff reviewers, who will write about their experiences on being a professional book reviewer.
You can reach Ross at ross@1776productions.com.
