Smoke by William Sanders
reviewed by Rich Horton
This mystery novel features a Cherokee woodcarver from Oklahoma named Hosea Smoke. He is spending a week at a small college in Oklahoma City, at a Native American art fair, exhibiting his carvings. Among the other exhibitors is a rather obnoxious man named Esau Brown, suspected by many of faking his claims to Indian ancestry. When Smoke and his nephew Mason Littlehorse discover the dead body of Esau Brown, there are plenty of suspects, including a man who was trying to get him thrown out of the exhibition for being a phony Indian, his ex-wife, and possibly even Justin Hatner, the very rich oilman who had earlier felt defrauded by Brown.

Are We Having Fun Yet? by William Sanders
reviewed by Lisa DuMond
This collection is the closest thing to an evening spent drinking beers and getting to know the real man. The dry wit, the intelligence, the unshakable pride, and the humility are waiting for you in every word. This is more a friend than a book, an introduction to one of the genre's very best.

The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan by William Sanders
reviewed by Lisa DuMond
This is most likely unlike any novel you've come across lately. Forget the fact that it sways between science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This is a story of horrifying truths, deadly lies, and people pushed aside since long before current memory.