The Doll Factory Locus Award Nominee for Best Collection (2007) sometimes a finger must be

sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand

Reed Brennan arrived at Easton Academy expecting to find an idyllic private school experience -- challenging classes

a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life

she “can help motivate even the most determined homebody to get out and try something new” ( Chicago Tribune )

The Doll Factory Locus Award Nominee for Best Collection (2007) sometimes a finger must beThe Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession. London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to