Excellent Women, Anne Sexton, and a Doll; Her Kind

918studio releases Throne fiction debut: Her Kind LECLAIRE, IOWA — March 18, 2013 — 918studio announced today the release of a debut novel from author, professor, and small press publisher, Robin Throne. Her Kind, a novel was inspired by Anne Sexton's famous poem of the same name, and is an epistolary novel of an unassuming matriarch who chronicles a family migration from England to the new England to Iowa, and the settlement of the lost river village of Parkhurst (now part of historic Le Claire). Throne was also named the recipient of the fourth David R. Collins' Literary Achievement Award March 16 at the Midwest Writing Center's Literary Banquet at the Outing Club in Davenport. Past recipients have included notable local authors, Sean Leary, Michael McCarty, and Connie Corcoran Wilson. Her Kind, a novel is available for purchase at the Midwest Writing Center, Artswork in Le Claire, The Book Rack in Davenport and Moline, Book World in Southpark Mall, and Prairie Lights in Iowa City. The Kindle version is available from Amazon.com. Past releases from 918studio have included Nancy Ann Schaefer's In Search of Lode (2012), The Legend of Tug Fest and other LeClaire Ghost Stories (2012), Jane VanVooren Rogers' How to avoid being and other paths to Triumph (2011), and Ellen Tsagaris' Sappho, I should have listened (2011). For more about 918studio, visit www.918studio.net

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: The Laugh of the Medusa and Erzebet Bathory

Below is an editorial from my blog on Erzebet Bathory Medusa the Gorgon.  Two not-so excellent women, yet maybe more excellent than we know.


An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: The Laugh of the Medusa and Erzebet Bathory: Of Medusa:   Medusa is of course, the Greek myth’s female monster with wings, scaly body and claws, and snakes for hair.   She is morta...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: With Love from Tin Lizzie; A History of Metal Doll...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: With Love from Tin Lizzie; A History of Metal Doll...: See Below: Results 1-1 of 1 User Review - Flag as inappropriate We all have our own personal history shaped by the dolls that were p...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: With Love from Tin Lizzie; A History of Metal Doll...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: With Love from Tin Lizzie; A History of Metal Doll...: See Below: Results 1-1 of 1 User Review - Flag as inappropriate We all have our own personal history shaped by the dolls that were p...