Save the date!

I will be appearing at the Doylestown Bookshop on Saturday, September 27 at 2PM as part of their Local Author Spotlight. Click HERE for more information and profiles on the other authors appearing that day.

I will be there to promote my latest book, Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County. There won’t be any reading, but you can meet various authors and have your book(s) signed. I will be there for an hour and a half, and my book will be in stock at the Doylestown Bookshop.

Here’s the lineup so far:
12 to 1:30pm—Karen Polis, author of Moses Was Watching Over Me
2 to 3:30pm—Michael-Patrick Harrington
2 to 3:30pm—Nicole Maddalo Dixon, author of Bandito Bonita: Romancing Billy the Kid

So please come out and hang with me for a little while!
This is the first appearance on my book tour!

Doylestown Bookshop
16 S Main Street Doylestown, PA 18901
215-230-7610

PS All of my books are also available at Amazon and Barnes and Nobles’ web site, as well as this web site.

From The Daily Telegraphl

Pulitzer Prize: Donna Tartt wins in fiction for ‘The Goldfinch’
© The Daily Telegraph | 22 April, 2014 07:08
Last week Donna Tartt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel The Goldfinch. The prize honours exceptional journalism, literature and musical composition.

The 784-page bestseller, which follows a grieving 13-year-old New Yorker whose fate becomes intertwined with a mysterious 17th-century painting, was described as “a beautifully written coming-of-age novel that stimulates the mind and touches the heart” in a release from Columbia University, which announced the awards.

The Goldfinch triumphed over the two other nominees, The Son by Philip Meyer and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis.

It was Tartt’s eagerly anticipated third novel, following her highly praised The Little Friend, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003. Tartt’s first book, The Secret History, was released in 1992.

A film adaptation of The Goldfinch is in the pipeline after the producers behind the hit teen franchise The Hunger Games announced last month that they had taken up an option on the book.

This year’s Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction went to Dan Fagin’s Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, the story of a small New Jersey town ravaged by industrial pollution. Megan Marshall’s Margaret Fuller: A New American Life won for biography, and the winner in poetry was 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri.

Alan Taylor’s The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 received the history prize.

Last year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded to The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson.

RIP Gabriel García Márquez, author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude…a true visionary…

Click HERE to read Salman Rushdie’s essay on the late Márquez.

I just discovered that Ezra Pound’s work is in the public domain. How did Pound’s estate fail to do what the estates of his contemporaries did? (Hemingway, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Woolf, etc) Pound only passed away in 1972. Copyright law is confusing.

I might be one of the last people to read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, but it was fun. An excellent thriller.

Check it out HERE.

My NEW book, Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County, has just been released!

Sweater Girl is my 4th book.
Published by Silk Raven Press. 352 pages. (Much shorter than my last book!)
Incredible cover design by Dominique Messihi of Pepper Lillie .

You can purchase the paperback or the Kindle edition right here. All paperbacks bought from my site will be signed and come with a special bookmark. Plus: the paperback is cheaper on my site!

The paperback & the Kindle edition are also available on Amazon.
Barnes & Noble’s web site carries the paperback.

DESCRIPTION:
Welcome to Mondauk County – Where the Past is Never Past

Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County is a collection of novellas and stories that explores the condition of morbid nostalgia: being so bound to the past that it poisons the present and chokes the future.

In the novella “Sweater Girl,” a man combs through the ashes of a teenage party that took place forty years ago, looking for clues to what had transpired, including arson, an amputation, and the death of his father, while obsessing on the party’s catalyst, an enthralling young sweater girl.

Plus…a retired romance novelist faces her fears of intimacy in a most radical fashion…a cult member becomes consumed with an underage girl…a loner signs up for a spelling bee to impress a popular girl on the eve of an assault on the school…as a weary detective hunts the Red Ribbon Killer, a grandmother confronts the secret in her shed…an ex-boxer squares off against a mob capo when his wife disappears…a man finds a radio broadcasting from his past in the abandoned Divine Lorraine Hotel…and after his hand gets stuck to a girl’s hair with paste, a giant of a boy is hunted by a vengeful mob.

I never realized that “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot is in the public domain in the US. Click HERE to read more.

Click HERE to read about the 10 weirdest and most wonderful libraries.

All 3 of my books are ON SALE until January 1st, 2014! Prices have been slashed!

Saving Magdalene, I See No Angels, & Deep Autumn

The Complete Collection is ON SALE too! Save even more!

Published by Silk Raven Press