The Bright Side of The Dark Side
The truth is I don’t think of myself as negative or pessimistic. I believe I’m a realist, which to me means not expecting terribly much from people, not… Read more »
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Book Launch Celebration!
Against the backdrop of all that’s so very wrong in the world, the release of my novel seems inconsequential, and celebrating its release, vain and insensitive. But then… Read more »
The Next Book! (Aaaaaaarrrrgh)
With my first novel scheduled for liftoff in a couple weeks (gulp), I’ve been so busy wrestling with the elusive octopus of pre-publication publicity that I’ve had little… Read more »
20 Days of Foreplay
When, after several years of cognitive hard labor and world-class napping, I finished my upcoming novel for the seventeenth and final time, what I felt was a combination… Read more »
Kirkus Review! Oh no!
People warned me about Kirkus Reviews. One successful author described them as notoriously grumpy. Another publishing insider said they were unnecessarily hard on authors. “They’re trusted and authoritative,”… Read more »
The Truth About St. Valentine
Saint Valentine (in latin, Sellus Mondo Flowerus) is a widely publicized third-century Roman busy-body cursed by millions on February 14 and associated since the High Middle Ages (so… Read more »
Recommended by OPRAH!!!
Oprah would love it. She really would. She’d almost certainly recommend my crispy new novel to her 17 billion fans and maybe even slap that little round stamp… Read more »
The Internet Knows All
The Internet knows everything. It knows what you shop for, what you purchase, what you’d like to purchase, who you communicate with, what you type, what you delete,… Read more »
Pedantic Grumpery Be Gone! (for a minute)
OK, I complain a lot. I criticize. I tend to notice what’s wrong—with movies, books, ideas, with plans, structures, phones, bicycles, sentences (at least other people’s), computers, people,… Read more »
The Grammys (Just Like a Penis)
I tried to watch the second half of Grammys last week. I have a no excuse for this behavior other than the fact that I was preparing for… 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.