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If you love reading, you should join the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club. Check them out at the link below. Free to readers! The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club – Starring the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Just One Look is Dani Marek’s story of love. loss, grief, and letting go. Sublime Book Review: “Easley writes a thoroughly gripping story, set in the sixties and seventies, of a woman’s loss and grief, and how, after a series of trying events, she learned how to heal her heart again.” Diane Donavan, Reviewer at Midwest Book Review: “Set against the backdropRead More →

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Reviewed by Heather Brooks “Did John die for nothing? What did it matter? Dead was dead.” Thirteen-year-old Dani Marek swears she’s the exception to the rule about teenage puppy love. Fifteen-year-old John Nagy roots her to the floor with his first kiss and, for the next six years, holds her heart firmly captive with his Tennessee drawl, his lopsided grin, and his gentle charm. To his parents’ delight and her parents’ grudging relief, their love turns out to be the real deal, as, six Christmases later, John pops the question. But instead of her dreams, Dani’s worst fears come true when John is killed inRead More →

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Excerpt from Tammy Ruggles’ Review Just One Look by Joanne Kukanza Easley is a powerful work of literary fiction about grief and what comes after. This moving and multi-layered story centers on Danielle Marek, who is thirteen and in love. It’s Chicago, 1965, and for her, it’s true love, not puppy love. Vietnam crushes her dreams of a life with John, and she spirals down a path of self-destruction with men, but her way leads to a terrible end. She finds herself a young but rich widow raising a baby on her own. Is she able to rise above her loss and find herself again?Read More →

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In 1965 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Dani Marek declares she’s in love, and you best believe it. This is no crush, and for six blissful years she fills her hope chest with linens, dinnerware, and dreams of an idyllic future with John. When he is killed in action in Viet Nam, Dani’s world shatters. She launches a one-woman vendetta against the men she seeks out in Rush Street’s singles bars. Her goal: break as many hearts as she can. Dani’s ill-conceived vengeance leads her to a loveless marriage that ends in tragedy. At twenty-four, she’s left a widow with a baby, a small fortune, and a ghost—makeRead More →