ForeWord Magazine—A Compelling Novel

Another positive review, this one published in ForeWord Magazine, which reaches 26,000 librarians and book buyers. Here’s what ForeWord had to say about Tracks: A Novel in Stories in the July/August issue.


“Like a collection of one-act plays, each scene is a tightly scripted vignette highlighting the life of a single character. And while each chapter of the novel is a standalone story, characters have roles to play in several. “The author has a knack for easily and quickly evoking a sense of place, here deftly describing the seasonal life in Baltimore's Inner Harbor: "In the humid days of summer, descending from the hill into the harbor was like sinking into a familiar hot tub."


“The literary device of having the principal characters launched on a journey is well established, calling to mind examples as divergent as Chaucer and Zane Gray. If not done well it can be a cliché. Goodman handles the device deftly and the result is a compelling novel.”


Read the full review of Tracks in the online version of ForeWord Magazine below.

http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/tracks/

Tracks Author Published in Pedestal Magazine

Have a fetish for good literary magazines? Then you may already be a regular reader of The Pedestal Magazine. If not, you should give it a read.

The Pedestal Magazine is available online, and it’s free. As an online magazine that actually pays for all its content, The Pedestal is a cut above some of the other online journals.

Goodman's story, “Fetishes,” was published in a recent issue of The Pedestal Magazine. The flash fiction appears in issue 59.

As guest fiction editor Charles Rammelkamp said in his introduction, it’s not easy to be put on this pedestal. “It goes without saying that the competition was stiff, with around five hundred submissions for only a few slots and so much good work; it was kind of like college applications at prestigious universities.”

Where’s the frat party?

Check out The Pedestal Magazine issue 59 online.
www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?cat=419

Or go directly to “Fetishes.”
www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=12183