On Felon Blames 1970s Church Architecture for Life of Sin: The Ironic Catholic News, Vol I.:
Just released and now available at Amazon and Smashwords!
Nancy Piccone (Catholic Post Book group blog, Peoria IL): "Okay, now for my take. Many "news" stories in Felon, but in particular "Attendees of Flannery O'Connor Conference Meet Dire End," had me literally in tears of laughter. ... Every other story is also truly funny, so that you will be laughing out loud and the people around you will be asking, hey, what's so funny?"
Allen Henderson (It Came From Allen's Brain): "Satire Collection Sparks Intended Revolution, Author Shocked". (Trust me. It's a funny review. Go read.)
Julie Davis (author of Happy Catholic the book and Happy Catholic the blog): "you need to go buy your own copy....This is too good to keep to myself. So. Very. Funny!"
Meredith Gould (book author, blogger, tweeter extraordinaire) "Her cheerful, edgy reverence is grounded in theological smarts....Truly I perk right up whenever IC posts one of her news stories. She positions them as 'fake news' but verily some of these could be true. Lord, have mercy."
On Dear Communion of Saints: amusingly apt advice for foolish Christians:
Jeff Miller (The Curt Jester) "I think I had a grin through out reading this along with accompanying bursts of laughter....When it comes to humor the truer something is the funnier it can be. This collection is quite funny in a entertaining way while at the same time providing theological correct answers."
LarryD (Acts of the Apostasy) "Her blog is everything mine aspires to be - alternating between intelligently witty and wittily intelligent, completely faithful to the Church." [blush]
Tim Mason (Yellow Blog Journalism) "Each letter has the feel of authenticity with a very human touch where you learn that some saints do not suffer fools lightly while others are more willing to play along. In the end, all the saints point to the greater lesson that should be learned from questions such as "Why did God create Jellyfish" and my favorite, "I'm Having Problems Cooking This Thanksgiving Day Turkey. Help".... If you have a dog-eared copy of Saints Behaving Badly on your bookshelf, this is for you."
TinaMats (One More Page): "The Ironic Catholic writes in such a funny yet reader friendly way that it makes the saints feel closer and more human than they are viewed now. It’s highly unlikely that the saints would actually say these things (although we really don’t know about their sense of humor, really). I hope people won’t see this as blasphemous or disrespectful of the saints, because the point wasn’t really to capture who the featured saints are. The real point of this collection is, and I quote the author in her introduction:
I am poking fun at foolish human imperfections, many (if not all) of which are my own.Dear Communion of Saints is a good book for Catholics and non-Catholics (if only by entertainment value) alike."
Allen Henderson, It Came From Allen's Brain: Just go read the whole thing. It's a hoot.
Nancy Piccione (The Catholic Post/Peoria Book Group blog) An interview about the blogger, the blog and (at the end) the DCOS book.
Joseph O'Brien (The Catholic Times, LaCrosse, WI): "Perhaps satire's motive is best understood as the mother wisdom we are all familiar with--"If you don't laugh, you'll cry." The world is just so full f these flawed, featherless bipeds known as human beings that, like the Roman satirist Juvenal, we can't help but observe how difficult it is not to write satire. But for that reason "Dear Communion of Saints" serves as a perfect mirror for our own foibles and flaws."
Also a bunch of DCOS reviews at Smashwords.
And press releases:
