News Coverage + Book REVIEWS
Los Angeles Daily News, How Long Beach’s Brown Paper Press provides a platform to marginalized voices, Sept. 17, 2022
NPPA, New book show humanity of California’s Roma, December 2022
Publico, Portugese newspaper features Hidden, Nov. 23, 2022
Mutha Magazine, Excerpt of Crybaby, Oct. 20, 2022
California Sun, Feature of Hidden, Oct. 19, 2022
Huck Magazine, A glimpse inside California’s Romani communities, Oct. 14, 2022
Just a Good Conversation Podcast, Interview with Cristina Salvador Klenz, Oct. 7, 2022
Tasteful Rude, Review of Crybaby, Oct. 4, 2022
The Bay Area Reporter, Crybaby in Book Roundup, Oct. 4, 2022
Los Angeles Daily News, How Long Beach’s Brown Paper Press provides a platform to marginalized voices, Sept. 22, 2022
Publisher’s Weekly, Review of Crybaby, Sept. 14, 2022
All About Photo, Hidden: Life with California’s Roma Families, Sept. 12, 2022
Foreword Reviews, Review of Crybaby, August/September 2022
The Gay & Lesbian Review Magazine, The Problem With Adoption and the Case for Doing it Anyway, Aug. 26, 2022
OC Register, When should you stop reading a book?, Aug, 5, 2022
Compulsive Reader, Review of Crybaby, June 2022
Long Beach Post, ’Hidden: Life with California’s Roma Families’ opens door to unknown community, April 5, 2022
Press-Telegram, Stunning photography book features lives of Romani-Americans, April 1, 2022
Bildersturm, Feature of Hidden, March 2022
Foreword Reviews, Review of Hidden, March-April, 2022
The Upgrade by Lifehacker, How to Talk to Kids about Religion, Oct. 27, 2021
Shepherd, The Best Books for Finding Your Own Philosophy of Life, August 2021
MADE by Millworks, Meet the Maker: Brown Paper Press, April 3, 2021
Independent Book Review, Review of Trove, Aug. 4, 2020
The Salem News, Author’s memoir leads to jewels in Stage Fort Park, July 27, 2020
Entropy, Review of Trove, March 6, 2020
The Debutante Ball, Interview with Sandra Miller, Jan. 18, 2020
Huffington Post, I Survived Conversion Therapy; Here’s What an Effective Ban Must Do, Jan. 15, 2020
Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, Interview with Sandra A. Miller, Jan. 9, 2019
Charles Adler Tonight, Conversion Therapy Could Soon Be on the Way Out Federally, Dec. 17, 2019
The Calgary Star, Modern Conversion Therapy: What is It, and How Hard Will It Be to Ban?, Dec. 8, 2019
Rose City Reader, Review of ParentShift, Oct. 26, 2019
Boston Globe, Essay by Sandra A Miller, Oct. 27, 2019
Kirkus Reviews, Review of Trove, Sept. 19, 2019
TheNerdyGirlExpress, Review of Trove, Oct. 10, 2019
Boston Globe, Buried Treasure Awaits, Sept. 22, 2019
Write the Book, Interview with Sandra Miller, Sept. 16, 2019
Deborah Kalb Blog, Q&A with Sandra Miller, Sept. 16, 2019
Boots & Armchairs: A Treasure Hunters Podcast, Interview with Sandra Miller, September 2019
Midwest Book Review, Review of Trove, September 2019
Rose City Reader, Review of Trove, September 2019
Arlington Advocate, Arlington author has buried treasure somewhere in New England, Aug. 26, 2019
CBC News, Conversion therapy survivor describes therapy as ‘torture,’ July 13, 2019
Janette Fuller Blog, Review of Trove, July 31, 2019
Midwest Book Review, Review of ParentShift, June 2019
The Atlantic, Ask a Professional Negotiator: How Do You Reason With Kids?, June 13, 2019
Tools and Tactics for Writers, Writing ‘Trove,’ a Memoir, May 7, 2019
Press-Telegram, Three Long Beach Parents Share Universal Truths About Kids, May 6, 2019
Parenting Beyond Belief Webcast/Podcast, April 13, 2019. Dale McGowan and Janet Heimlich talk with Wendy Thomas Russell about ParentShift
OC Family, What happened when I tried a 'Parent Shift' on my kids, April 2019.
Broadway World, Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company Presents Reading of Gajdics' INHERITANCE OF SHAME, March 2, 2019
Lez Spread the Word, In “Treatment”, Jan. 14, 2019
BBC News, Thousands of Canadians have signed petitions to ban conversion therapy, Dec. 21, 2018
CBC News, Boy Erased: Film shines light on conversion therapy for LGBT youth, Nov. 9, 2018
Flare, Conversion Therapy Is Harmful and Wrong—So Why Is It Still Legal in Canada?, Nov. 1, 2018
The Drew Marshall Show, PubCrawl, Interview with Alan Chambers and Justin Lee, Oct. 27, 2018
Vancouver Writer’s Fest, Facebook Interview, Oct. 20, 2018
PBS NewsHour, Now Let Me Explain: Timeouts, Nov. 14, 2017
Minorities in Publishing, What Actually Happens During Reparative Therapy, July 30, 2018
The Good Men Project, Peter Gajdics on The Inheritance of Shame and conversion therapy, July 8, 2018
Global News, BC man fights to have gay conversion therapy banned across Canada, July 7, 2018
Atheist Republic, Conflicts between "normal" culture and homosexuality; an interview with Peter Gajdics, June 14, 2018
The Lynda Steele Show, Talking to the man who spent six years in conversion therapy on the heels of Vancouver becoming the first city to ban it entirely, June 11, 2018
Gay Times Magazine, Vancouver becomes the first Canadian city to ban gay 'cure' therapy, June 9, 2018
PBS News Hour, How a survivor of ‘conversion therapy’ became the driving force behind Canada’s first-ever ban, June 7, 2018
Maclean's, I experienced 'conversion therapy'-and it's time to ban it across Canada, June 6, 2018
The Star, Motion to ban conversion therapy in Vancouver to be presented at City Hall, May 22, 2018
Brevity Mag, A Review of Peter Gajdics' Inheritance of Shame, March 14, 2018
Humanist Voices, Author Peter Gajdics on Conversion Therapy, Jan. 28, 2018
Canadian Atheist, In Conversation with Peter Gajdics, Jan. 28, 2018
LA Talk Radio, Writer's Block with Peter Gajdics, Jan. 15, 2018
Manhattan Book Review, Writing Shame by Peter Gajdics, Jan. 9, 2018
X-tra, Vancouver could become the first city in Canada to ban anti-LGBT conversion therapy, Jan. 8, 2018
Lauren Sapala, 'The Inheritance of Shame' Among Top 5 Memoirs of 2017, Jan. 1, 2018
Vancouver Courier, Vancouver Could Move Towards Banning Conversion Therapy, Dec. 22, 2017
Brevity, Rejections and the Art of Not Taking it All So Personally by Peter Gadjics, Nov. 8, 2017
Rose City Reader, Book Beginnings: The Inheritance of Shame, Oct. 5, 2017
The Advocate, 17 New Books About LGBT Families, Sept. 28, 2017
The Georgia Straight, Vancouver author Peter Gajdics details gay-conversion therapy and trauma in memoir, The Inheritance of Shame, July 26, 2017
The Atlantic, More and More States are Outlawing Gay-Conversion Therapy, July 10, 2017
The Globe & Mail, Review: Pajtim Statovci’s My Cat Yugoslavia, S.J. Sindu’s Marriage of a Thousand Lies and Peter Gajdics’s The Inheritance of Shame, June 23, 2017
The Seattle Lesbian, Healing by Memoir editorial by Peter Gajdics, June 3, 2017
KQED's The Spine, After Conversion Therapy, A Survivor's Sense of Pride, May 21, 2017
KFI, Live, on-air interview with Peter Gajdics, May 21, 2017
PINKNEWS, This man was medicated and forced into gay cure therapy, now he’s told his story, May 19, 2017
Q Voice News, Gay man who survived conversion therapy tells his story in book ‘The Inheritance of Shame’, May 18, 2017
Vice Canada, I Lost Six Years of My Life to Gay Conversion Therapy, May 17, 2017
This Magazine, What it Was Like to Undergo Gay Conversion Therapy in Canada, May 17, 2017
LGBTQ Nation, What this survivor of conversion therapy endured will rip your heart out, May 17, 2017
Long Beach Post, Gay-Conversion Therapy Survivor Launches New Memoir With Two Long Beach Events, May 16, 2017
Largehearted Boy, Book Notes - Peter Gajdics "The Inheritance of Shame", May 16, 2017
Long Beach Press-Telegram, Long Beach publisher to release new memoir from survivor of gay conversion therapy, May 16, 2017
CKNW's The Simi Sara Show, Local Author Details 6 Years In Gay Conversion Therapy In New Memoir, May 15, 2016
The Rumpus, Notable Los Angeles, May 15, 2016
Long Beach Gazette, Long Beach Pride Week To Celebrate Peter Gajdics' New Book, May 8, 2017
Lambda Literary, Review of The Inheritance of Shame, April 25, 2017
Nudge, Review of The Inheritance of Shame, April 22, 2017
Kirkus Reviews, Review of The Inheritance of Shame, April 18, 2017
Matthew Shepard Foundation, Q&A with Peter Gajdics, April 11, 2017
Foreword Reviews, Review of The Inheritance of Shame, March 27, 2017
The How The Why Podcast, interview with Jennifer Volland and Wendy Thomas Russell, Feb. 13, 2017
Long Beach Post, With the News Industry in Crisis, Local Event to Address State of American Journalism, Dec. 5, 2016
Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Future of Journalism? Trump Changes Everything. Dec. 8, 2016
Long Beach Press-Telegram, Tim Grobaty Talks About Latest Book at Long Beach Mayor's First Book Event, Sept. 15, 2016
Long Beach Local News, Mayor Robert Garcia Launches Book Club Encouraging Residents to Read More Books, Aug. 16, 2016
Long Beach Star, Mayor's Book Club Announced, Long Beach columnist featured, Aug. 16, 2016
Everything Long Beach, Mayor Garcia Launches 'Mayor's Book Club, Aug. 16, 2016
Long Beach Post, Long Beach Mayor Launches Book Club to Support Literacy, Community and Local Authors, Aug. 16, 2016
Press-Telegram, Mayor's Book Club announced, Long Beach columnist featured, Aug. 16, 2016
Press-Telegram, Book writing: So much easier than writing the post-writing trail, April 4, 2016.
C-SPAN, Book Discussion on I'm Dyin' Here: A Life in the Paper, April 2, 2016
Library Journal, Review of Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir, March 15, 2016
Los Angeles Review of Books, Burdens and Privileges, March 9, 2016
Long Beach Business Journal, Owners Of New Book Publishing Company In Long Beach Aim For Great Writing And Design In All Form, March 1, 2016
Kirkus Reviews, I'm Dyin' Here: A Life in the Paper, March 1, 2016
Deborah Kalb's Book Blog, Q&A with Alan Rifkin, Feb. 23, 2016; Q&A with Tim Grobaty, Feb. 23, 2016
PR Newswire, New Long Beach Publishing Company Brown Paper Press Set to Debut Two Nonfiction Books, Feb. 22, 2016
KPCC's Take Two, Segment beginning at 1:32:35, Feb. 22, 2016
Long Beach Press-Telegram, Tim Grobaty rose from copy boy to star columnist, Feb. 22, 2016
Long Beach Post, Two Long Beach Entrepreneurs Seek to Bridge Gap Between Indie and Mainstream Publishing Operations, Feb. 19, 2016
Long Beach Press-Telegram, New Long Beach Publishing House Taps Writers' Dream to 'Trigger Nerves,' Feb. 17, 2016
UC Observer, Spiritual but Secular, November 2015
Godless Spellchecker Podcast, Episode #67: Secular Parenting, October 2015
Portland Family Magazine, Navigating Secular Parenting, Sept. 1, 2015
World Religion News, At what age should you introduce your children to religion?, Aug. 23, 2015
Why Evolution is True Blog, A new book for secular parents: how to tell you kids about God and religion, Aug. 11, 2015
PBS NewsHour, The secular parent's guide to talking to kids about faith, Aug. 10, 2015
Orange County Register, Raising a Kid in a Secular Home, Aug. 4, 2015
OC Family, Raising a Kid in a Secular Home, August 2015
Cleveland.com and The Deseret News, How Do you Teach your Kids About Religion? Multitasking Moms and Dads, July 26, 2015
True Parent Magazine, Review and interview, July 1, 2015
Everyone's Agnostic Podcast, Interview with Wendy Thomas Russell, June 14, 2014.
Library Journal, Review of Relax, It's Just God, May 15, 2015
Skeptic Zone Podcast, Review of Relax, It’s Just God, May 10, 2015
Washington Post, 5 Ways to Talk to Your Kids About God, April 24, 2015
Los Angeles Post-Examiner, Excerpt from Relax, It’s Just God, April 9, 2015
The Baltimore Post-Examiner, Excerpt from Relax, It’s Just God, April 6, 2015
Baltimore Sun, Excerpt from Relax, It’s Just God, April 6, 2015
New York Statesman, Excerpt from Relax, It’s Just God, April 6, 2015
Time Magazine, How Do You Talk to Kids About God?, April 6, 2015
Jewish Journal, How Do You Talk to Kids About God?, April 6, 2015
Zocalo Public Square, How Do You Talk to Kids About God?, April 6, 2015
Freethought Radio, Interview with Wendy Thomas Russell, April 6, 2015
Friendly Atheist Blog, Your Child’s Going to Hear About Hell Anyway, So Should You Be the First to Bring It Up?, March 31, 2015
Richard Dawkins Foundation, Your Child’s Going to Hear About Hell Anyway, So Should You Be the First to Bring it Up?, March 31, 2015
PBS NewsHour, 10 Commandments for Talking Your Kids About Religion, March 31, 2015
Author2Author Radio, Interview with Wendy Thomas Russell, March 31, 2015
Truth Revolt, 10 Commandments For Atheist Parents Raising ‘Tolerant’ Kids’, March 31, 2015
Friendly Atheist Podcast, Interview with Wendy Thomas Russell, March 23, 2015
The Humanist Magazine, Review of Relax, It’s Just God, March 31, 2015
No Longer Quivering Blog, Review: Relax, It’s Just God, March 31, 2015
The Freethinker, Review of Relax, It’s Just God, March 31, 2015
Deborah Kalb's Books Blog, Q&A with Wendy Thomas Russell, March 31, 2015.
AlterNet, 6 Reasons Parents Shouldn’t Wait Until Their Kids Are Older to Start Talking About Religion, April 2, 2015
Long Beach Grunion Gazette, Long Beach Author Helps Parents Talk About God, March 28 2015
Long Beach Press-Telegram, New Long Beach Publishing House Launches with Book About God, March 24, 2015
Salon, 4 Reasons I’m Glad I Came Out as an Atheist, March 21, 2015
AlterNet, 4 Reasons I’m Glad I Came Out as an Atheist, March 21, 2015
LAObserved, Relax, It’s Just God, March 18, 2015
Kirkus Reviews, Relax, It's Just God, March 1, 2015