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

My friend, the artist Margaux Kent of Peg and Awl, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund her latest art book, Take Your Time Loving Me!

Please back this project. There are a lot of great rewards. It’s going to be a really incredible project!

Click here to check out Margaux’s Kickstarter campaign.

Happy birthday, Herman Melville!