About Us

What hap­pens when the book­store closes? Of course I knew I’d miss han­dling all those books on a daily basis, but who knew I’d miss all those won­der­ful cus­tomers who would lis­ten to me talk about my lat­est find? Bookin’ with Sunny seems to be the per­fect fix, and it’s my hope that this site will give you who stop by the same kind of enthu­si­asm and knowl­edge you would expect from a com­mu­nity bookstore.

Meet Our Review­ers & Contributors

Sunny Solomon

Sunny Solomon

Sunny Solomon holds an MA in English/Creative Writing, San Francisco State University. She is a book reviewer for “The Clayton Pioneer” and her poetry and other writing has been published in literary journals, one chapbook, In the Company of Hope and the collection, Six Poets Sixty-six Poems. She was the happy manager of Bonanza Books, Clayton, CA and Clayton Books, Clayton, CA. She continues to moderate a book thriving book club that survived the closure of the store from which it began. Sunny currently lives next to the Truckee in Reno, NV.
Jacqueline Smay

Jacqueline Smay

Jacqueline Smay holds a BA in English, with a concentration in creative writing, from Vassar College. She has been proofreader and editor of Lost In The Grooves, Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed and Swordfishtrombones of the 33 ½ series. She is acquisitions editor for Plus One Press, San Francisco, where she has worked as editor on the JP Kinkaid mystery series, the latest Sarah Tolerance novel, and on piano... Nicky Hopkins! The Extraordinary Life of Rock's Greatest Session Man, and Sam the Bat. Her writing is included in Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Out of economic necessity she also does database management and scientific MS copyediting at UCSF. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.
Aubrey Siino

Aubrey Siino

Aubrey Siino holds a BA in English Literature and two minors, Spanish and Women's Studies, University of Nevada Reno. She is a content writer for HerWeddingFavors.com. Aubrey is currently working on three of her own children's picture books. She lives with her family in Reno, NV.
Dan Erwine

Dan Erwine

Dan Erwine holds a BS in Telecommunications, San Diego State University. Dan recently retired after four decades in radio broadcasting. His background San Diego stations KFSD and NPR's KPBS, and KUNR, Reno, NV. Over the years, Dan has produced and hosted a number of talk shows and interviewed over five thousand writers in almost every genre and career, from such notables as David Brin to Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, Judy Collins, Charlton Heston and Wally Schirra. Dan is a comic book aficionado and has a special interest in film, science fiction and mystery. He lives with his wife in Reno, NV.
Joanne Mallari

Joanne Mallari

Joanne Mallari holds a BA in English (Writing) with a minor in Spanish from the University of Nevada, Reno. She currently teaches preschool at St. John’s Children’s Center. Her interests include poetry, shower recitals, and dancing at random. Joanne lives in Reno, NV.
Ann Ronald

Ann Ronald

Ann Ronald is a retired English professor from the University of Nevada, Reno. Author of dozens of reviews, she’s also written a number of books about the American West. They include literary studies such as The New West of Edward Abby and Reader of the Purple Sage, cultural studies such as GhostWest and Oh, Give Me a Home, and nature writing such as Earthtones: A Nevada Album. Her latest is a work of fiction, Friendly Fallout 1953. Since retiring, she’s been reading vociferously, so “Bookin’ With Sunny” is giving her a wonderful opportunity to share thoughts about her favorite new discoveries.