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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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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.