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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Publication Date Madness
Dagnabbit, my book launch has been delayed. That’s right, my eagerly-awaited bestselling blockbuster novel, Ways of Leaving, originally scheduled for release on October 15, 2013, has been postponed… Read more »
Blogging Your Blog?
Is it appropriate to post a blog about an Ezine blog where you are featured discussing your writing, inspiration, and process? Probably not:Eclectic Blog
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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.