Editors

Welcome to our book review website, a project of the Story Circle Network. We love books that tell the truth about women's lives or that deliciously depict them in enlightening, entertaining novels. Take time to explore the site and let us share our favorites with you. Browse our reviews, learn more about the authors, and meet our talented review team. If you would like to contribute a review, please read our Reviewer's Guidelines. If you are an author, publicist or publisher and would like us to review a book, read Getting Reviewed. Susan Wittig Albert, Co-Editor: In 1985, I left my career as a university professor and administrator and began working fulltime as a novelist and freelance writer. For the past 16 years, I've written the China Bayles herbal mysteries, and for the past five, a series of historical fantasies called The Cottage Tales, featuring Beatrix Potter. —read more... Mary Jo Doig, Editor: As I have grown to seek and find deeper levels of my own story, I find I am also passionate about reading and nurturing other women's stories. Since 2001 I have been a SCN member, have led my internet writing circle 7 for six years, and have been editor of Story Circle Journal's "True Words From Real Women" for five years. I have found so many different ways to express my soul's longings in SCN. Writing book reviews is yet another way for I can both deepen and share my experience with a book that has been particularly meaningful to me. —read more... Barbara Heming, Distribution Editor: Ever since she learned to read, Barbara Heming has been a voracious reader. For her a snow day was a gift of time to journey into the worlds sandwiched between the covers of a book. She pursued a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature which opened doors into literature of other cultures. After moving to a remote canyon in northern New Mexico a few years ago, she turned her attention to her lifelong dream of writing fiction and has now completed a number of short stories and her first novel. —read more... Linda Hoye, Editor: I'm a Business Analyst, writer, adoptee, bibliophile, and somewhat-fanatical grandma. I recently published my memoir, Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey Through Grief to Gratitude (2012), and am a contributor to Adoption Voices Magazine. I live in the state of Washington with my husband and our two Yorkshire terriers where I'm counting down the months until I retire from corporate life and move to Canada to be closer to my grandchildren. You can connect with me on my blog, A Slice of Life Writing. —read more... Laura Strathman Hulka, Co-Editor. Born and raised in California, I spent nine years in Tennessee at the turn of the century, learning to speak Southern, and eight months in the Arizona desert, learning I really don't like heat! Presently, I live with my husband of 38 years and two dachshunds on 10 shared acres near Lake Oroville, CA. —read more... Judy Miller, Editor: Two years ago I took my husband's advice and began my writing career. It was in one of my writing classes that I came across Story Circle Network. I was drawn to the idea of women nurturing women in their quest to write and share their stories. I joined SCN almost a year ago and volunteered to become one the of the SCBR editors. —read more... Susan Schoch, Editor: As a freelance writer and editor, I specialize in memoir and personal history at my little cabin in Idledale, Colorado. The natural fit with Story Circle Network has been both motivating and fulfilling. Because I'm always discovering women's books that increase my awareness and stoke my passion for their stories, it's an honor to write reviews for SCBR and share those discoveries, and to work with the remarkable women who share my enthusiasm. —read more... Paula Stallings Yost, Editor, 2002-2008: After a twenty-five-year career in public relations and journalism in Dallas, I returned to my roots in the piney woods of East Texas, working for a while as lifestyles editor for a small-town daily newspaper. In 1999, I established LifeSketches/ Heirloom Memoirs Publishing. —read more... * Stars have posted 10 or more reviews/interviews in the past 18 months and have their own web pages. Further classifications for Stars: SuperStar (25 reviews/interviews); StarBurst (50); NovaStar (75); SuperNova (100). Editors procure / distribute books to our review team, edit reviews/interviews submitted by our review team, publicize posted reviews on our social media sites, and submit their own reviews/interviews. Associate Reviewers have posted 5-9 reviews/interviews in the past 12 months. Guest Reviewers have posted 1-4 reviews/interviews in the past 12 months. Inactive reviewers haven't submitted a review in the past 12 months. Former reviewers haven't submitted a review in the past 36 months.