Gifts of the Peramangk - go ahead, add it to your "to read" shelf now

Earlier this year, author Dean Mayes emailed me to ask if I'd be willing to read the unfinished rough draft of his latest novel and give him my honest feedback. I said I'd love to, of course. Dean and I share a publisher (Central Avenue Publishing), and have enjoyed each other's work so far. He said lovely things about my What Scotland Taught Me, and his first book, The Hambledown Dream , impressed me a great deal--it's like a deeper, grittier, more paranormal, and much more moving Sleepless i...