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Myfanwy Collins' ECHOLOCATION

I read my friend, Myfanwy Collins’, debut novel, ECHOLOCATION the moment I got my hands on it. We’ve been friends for many years and I’ve come to love and respect her and her writing enormously. And I’d seen a few excerpts of her novel when she was writing it and was hungry to see the

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Review of TOGETHER WE CAN BURY IT / Len Kuntz

Wow, my day has been made by this beautiful review of TOGETHER WE CAN BURY IT by Len Kuntz on his blog People You Know By Heart. I am hugely grateful for the kind words. “From the terrific book title, we move through the lives of troubled people not unlike wraiths who slip through bedroom

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Together We Can Bury It can now be ordered from The Lit Pub!

I’m so happy and grateful to everyone who bought my book at AWP. Thank you so much! There are a few remaining copies now available to order directly from The Lit Pub Bookstore All copies of the limited first edition have now sold out. Look for the second run in April! Spanning nearly a decade

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I can't keep up….

…with all the books I want to read. I feel I’m always falling behind. But lists. Lists are good. And I know I’ll buy new books and chapbooks at AWP. So here’s my list. I’ll read all of these and then I’ll make a new list and then it will feel less daunting. 1. Shut

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Praise for Together We Can Bury It

Ohh, I do not love self-promotion, and I really suck at it, but damn, I’m so happy and so proud of this book, so bear with me here. I’ve gotten some lovely blurbs for my collection, which launches at AWP. I only asked writers I knew and who knew my writing. People who have supported

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Shut Up, Look Pretty

A book I’m very eager to read, from Tiny Hardcore Press featuring stories by Erin Fitzgerald, Lauren Becker, Kirsty Logan, Michelle Reale, and Amber Sparks: Check out this interesting roundtable discussion at Necessary Fiction Necessary Fiction. A book I read and recommend is the e-book One Time All I Wanted, by Nicolle Elizabeth and published

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The Iowa-Missouri border, 1967

The summer I was seven or eight years old, my dad took two of my brothers and me to a family reunion in southern Iowa. My five other brothers and my mom stayed behind. Only subsets of our family took trips because there was only so much room in the car, so Bob and Tim

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Such riches in so small a space…Quick Fiction 18

QUICK FICTION 18 Cover art by Andrea Zuill Edited by Jennifer and Adam Pieroni, Quick Fiction has been a long-time favorite literary journal of mine. I saw that Pia Ehrhardt was in Issue 4 and being a fan of Pia Ehrhardt, I subscribed and have been a subscriber and sometime contributor since then. I’ve held

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Together We Can Bury It — Coming Soon! The Lit Pub Bookstore…

Very excited to see my new short story collection at the Lit Pub Bookstore page with such a stellar list, including books by Aimee Bender, J.A. Tyler, Matt Bell, Andrea Kneeland, Scott Garson, Caitlin Horrocks, Miles Harvey and Ben Segal and Erinrose Mager. I seriously want to buy all of these. Here is the link.

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