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For some reason I’m struggling to get some work done on my new novel and Hope Hicks resigned yesterday and Jared Kushner’s security clearance was downgraded, gosh darn… Read more »
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Friendly_Rejections.com
Dear Writer or Writer Manqué: Friendly Rejections Inc. is proud to announce a brand new service for writers who are darned sick and tired of waiting weeks or… Read more »
Writing Process Blog Tour (continued)
Roxana Robinson was kind enough to continue the discussion begun by April Bradley and passed on to me by Gay Degani and Susan Tepper. Her enlightening responses below:… Read more »
Writing Process Blog Tour
After conspiring with author Gay Degani, the talented and generous Susan Tepper invited me to join April Bradley’s literary blog tour about the writing process. Here is my… Read more »
Boost My Sales Rank Week!
Do you sometimes feel ineffective, powerless, gassy, as though your efforts don’t amount to a pocketful of moldy garbanzos? Do you yearn for an opportunity to make a… Read more »
Winner!
Prologue: I’d like to announce that my novel, Ways of Leaving, won the “Best New Fiction” category of the 2014 International Book Awards, but I can’t find a… Read more »
Father’s Day Redux
I was five or six when my father walked out for the last time, so if there was any observation of Father’s Day in our home while he… Read more »
Reviewing the Reviews
As the reviews for Ways of Leaving begin to accumulate, I’ve noticed a trend. People either love the book or hate it, with very little middle ground. And… Read more »
Hanging On While Letting Go
Life, it seems to me, is predominantly about letting go; letting go of the warmth and protection of the womb, the nourishment of the umbilical cord; letting go… Read more »
Vampire Whores from Mars!
Now what? It’s not that I don’t have anything to do. It’s just that, with my novel’s release day and launch event uncomfortably behind me, if I don’t… Read more »
Ways of Leaving
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Chase Stoller is a beautifully mangled all-American mess. Jarrett’s ability to paint a picture of the tedium of small town America, and then to drop a character into this (Hannah) that’s right out of a Wyeth painting, well that sealed the deal for me. With pitch perfect dialogue and writing that felt like a perfect Indian summer day, "Ways Of Leaving" was that rare book that when I read the last word on the last page…I went back to page 1 and read it all over again.