Today, I will focus on WI authors. Mostly because a donation from Liam Callanan just landed on my doorstep! Below are the authors and their titles that have some in so far. (Click on author name for full bio or cover image for a full book description) Have you read these authors or their books?
Dwight Allen: moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1991, and for a couple of years wrote for Isthmus, Madison’s alternative newspaper, as well as other publications. In 2004, I was a visiting writer at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and taught a course in fiction writing.

A review in The New Yorker (May 19, 2003) described Judge this way: “Slight, dishevelled, almost totally without guile, eighty-two-year-old Judge William Dupree, of Louisville, departs this world leaving behind only the shimmer of his beneficence. His death leaves his family–his hypochondriac wife and his peripatetic sons–at a loss. Without the love that he steadily, but unobtrusively, supplied, his sons go haywire: the elder leaves his amiable wife for an aspiring ventriloquist, and the younger, a struggling writer, returns home, where he falls into the arms of his father’s law clerk. Allen’s preoccupation with ardor in all its forms brings Walker Percy to mind, and his lovely, elegiac book shows how easily even the most well-made life can unravel.”

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Carole Barrowman: was born and raised in a small town just outside of Glasgow, Scotland, and is now an English Professor at Alverno College and crime fiction columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.


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Liam Callanan: teaches in the English department of UW-Milwaukee, and coordinates their Ph.D. program in creative writing.

By life’s midpoint, Emily has seen three husbands, dozens of friends, and hundreds of students come and go. And now her classroom, long her refuge, is proving to be anything but.
Though her popular, occasionally irreverent church history course is rich with stories of long-dead saints, Emily uneasily discovers that it’s her own tumultuous life that fascinates certain students most. She, in turn, finds herself drawn into their world, their secrets, and the fateful choices they make.
A novel of mystery and illumination, calling and choice, All Saints explores lives lived in a fragile sanctuary—from Emily and her many saints, to a priest facing his own mortality and a teenager tormented by desire. Told with grace and compassion, this is a spellbinding novel of provocative storytelling.
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Alison Chambers: majored in political science and history, earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the UW-Milwaukee. She enjoys keeping her hero and heroine in dangerous and exciting situations against a backdrop of exotic settings, lost treasure and unsolved historical mysteries and conspiracies.

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Susan Firer: is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UW-Milwaukee. Her teaching interests are in Creative Writing, Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Whitman's Tradition and Contemporary American Poetry.

Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: Wild and freely imaginative poems by this Whitman- and Neruda-influenced poet who celebrates the life of the Milwaukee area where she lives and grew up.


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Martin Hintz: has been a freelance writer since 1975, after seven years with The Milwaukee Sentinel as an editor and reporter. He and his wife, Pam Percy, also write the bi-monthly Boris & Doris On the Town column for the Shepherd Express.


Got Murder? The Shocking Story of Wisconsin's Notorious Killers: Ah, Wisconsin . . . land of beer, cows, and the Green Bay Packers. And also the home of Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, and a host of other bloodthirsty maniacs. Got Murder? goes behind the bucolic Dairy State image to reveal shocking acts of mayhem in the dark corners of Wisconsin history, and asks the troubling question: Is it something in the cheese?
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Jeff & Chad Koser: Jeff has more than thirty years of experience in consulting, executive sales management, business strategy, and business development in various industries. Chad analyzes his clients' solution offerings to identify how they drive value for their customers.

If you are like most salespeople and you waste 85 percent of your energy on prospects that are poor fits for your product or service, company, or sales strategy, your best chance to improve your sales, build a stable of happy customers, and have a life outside of work is to find your Zebra and develop a method for selling to it. We will show you how!
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The horrific murder and suicide leave the community reeling. Speculation about Raymond's motives run rampant. Political scandal, workplace corruption, financial ruin, adultery, and jealousy are all cited as possible catalysts. But in the end, the truth behind the day's events died with those two men. And for Gene and his friend, the tragedy is a turning point, both in their lives and in their friendship.
Nearly forty years later, Gene's friend, a writer, revisits the tragedy and tries to unravel the mystery behind one man's inexplicable actions. Through his own recollections and his fiction--sometimes impossible to separate--he attempts to make sense of a senseless act and, in the process, to examine his youth, his friendship with Gene, and the love they both had for a beautiful girl named Marie.
Spare, haunting, lyrical, Sundown, Yellow Moon is a piercing study of love and betrayal, grief and desire, youth and remembrance. Using a brilliant evocative fiction-within-fiction structure, Larry Watson not only brings to life a distinct period in history but, most affectingly, reveals the interplay of memory, secrets, and the passage of time.
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Ned Weaver, an internationally acclaimed painter, is famous in Door County, Wisconsin, for his luminous work—and for his affairs with his models. His wife, Harriet, has learned to accept these dalliances in the belief that his immense talent will ultimately make up for his shortcomings as a husband.
Sonja Skordahl, a Norwegian immigrant, came to America looking for a new life. Instead, she married Henry House, only to find herself defined, like so many other mid-twentieth-century women, by her roles as wife and mother. As circumstances and destiny land Sonja in Ned’s studio, she becomes more than his model and more than an object of desire—she becomes the most inspiring muse Ned has ever known. When both Ned and Henry insist on possessing her, their jealousies threaten to erupt into violence, and Sonja must find a way to placate both men without sacrificing her hard-won sense of self.
With the stark, lyrical prose that Larry Watson is known for (“as fresh and clear as [a] trout stream” —The Washington Post Book World) and vivid characters who seem to breathe on the page, Orchard explores the lives of four very different people bound together by beauty, art, obsession, and betrayal.
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In a series of episodes dating from 1899, Watson invites us to get to know the Hayden family intimately. From the story of patriarch Julian Hayden as he carves a new life out of the Montana wilderness, to the struggles of Gail Hayden, Sheriff Wesley Hayden's spirited wife and moral compass, we learn the stories behind the story of Montana 1948.
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