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Sep 2010
 A Twisted Ladder is nominated for the Southern Independent Booksellers award for fiction!

Jul 2010
Read Vince Liguamo of Dark Scribe magazine interviewing Rhodi Hawk.

Apr 2010
 Here's what Alan Kelly of Pretty Scary has to say:

A Twisted Ladder is a complex, intelligent, creepy slice of Southern Gothic literature where myth and science, nightmare and daylight, magic and the monstrous collide.
Read the full interview.

Jan 2010
Rhodi Hawk talked with Sherry Lee Alexander at the WRBH radio studio in New Orleans.  WRBH has been reading A Twisted Ladder over the airwaves for their "Book off the Shelf" daily program.

Listen to the full interview with Sherry Alexander. 

Oct 2009
 Elaine Lamkin of Dread Central magazine reviewed A Twisted Ladder and later interviewed Rhodi Hawk.

This book, a classic example of Southern Gothic literature, is chock-full of the weirdness that makes the South so fascinating: family curses, voodoo, insanity, decaying plantations, “ghosts”, and a female protagonist who is trying to make sense of it all before she succumbs to her family’s penchant for schizophrenia.

In an interesting blend of horror and medical science (neuroplasticity anyone?), first-time author Rhodi Hawk gets it so right.

Read the full review and the accompanying interview.

 

Sep 2009
Rhodi Hawk is interviewed on Night Fright Radio.  You can download the show for an entertaining listen.
 

Sep 2009
A Twisted Ladder reviewed by RT Book Reviews:

Hawk takes readers on a ride that doesn't stop until its chilling conclusion.
Read the full review.

Sep 2009
 Nice review of A Twisted Ladder in the September issue of Rue Morgue magazine:

This Southern Gothic family saga, Rhodi Hawk's first novel, is an intense and brilliant psychological thriller with supernatural elements.
Read the full review.

Sep 2009
 Del Howison, horror industry phenom and owner of Dark Delicacies in Burbank, gives a glowing and HIGHLY ENTERTAINING review of A Twisted Ladder in his article "A Twisted Talented Novel" for L'Ecran Fantastique magazine.  Fantastique is widely circulated in France and Great Britain, and as of recently, is available in the US, too.  Here's a snippet:

Pacing her prose like a thriller writer yet filling it with the subtleness and intrigue usually reserved for the finest of literary fiction, Rhodi has managed to remake the Southern Gothic by using characterization and psychological terror as the cornerstone of her creepy and very disturbing first novel.

Ladies and gentlemen, the above quote is probably the tamest sentence in the entire review!  You'll want to read the full article.

Aug 2009
 Jessica Moyer's review of A Twisted Ladder in Booklist:

Hawk’s use of the New Orleans and bayou settings is masterful...She builds the tension and paces the plot so perfectly that 500-plus pages seem to fly by. Recommend this one not only to those who enjoy thrillers set in New Orleans, but also to fans of Larry Brown or even Anne Rice.
 

Read the full review.

Aug 2009
 Bev Vincent's review of A Twisted Ladder in Onyx Reviews:

Rhodi Hawk's clever debut is a fine entry in this field, bringing to mind Michael McDowell's Blackwater series... A Twisted Ladder is a thoroughly contemporary novel blending credible medicine and science with the arcane lore of voodoo.

Read the full review.

Jun 2009
 Tor/Forge unveiled A Twisted Ladder to publishing industry professionals at Book Expo America,  Read Lucinda Dyer's article in Publishers Weekly BEA Show Daily.

Apr 2009
 Writers Digest profiles Rhodi Hawk in the "First Impressions" column by Jordan Rosenfeld.
The Haps 

Sep 24 2010
SIBA conference in Daytona, FL, where A Twisted Ladder is nominated for the Southern Independent Bookseller's award for fiction.

Sep 25 2010
Rhodi Hawk will be a guest on the Marc Bernier Show, on his Saturday feature, BookMarc.

Sep 2010
A Twisted Ladder re-released in mass market paperback