I really hope all that they say about word-of-mouth advertising is true -- because word of mouth about YU is just marvelous. This is from a lady who was loaned a copy of YU by a friend of my mother.
"WHAT A WONDERFUL BOOK! The author paints pictures with her words so real that they draw you into the story. I swear that I could detect the smells rising from the pages. I wondered "what was real and what was fantasy." I was there in that story and loved it. I didn't want it to end. A great mystery written in intelligent lovely prose....almost poetry. It so exciting that I did not want to stop reading. I had to find out what happened with Ross Lamos, his special gift, and his connection with the Jade owners. IT is especially wonderful read aloud. Ancient Chinese art and a smart mystery mixed with Buddhist wisdom make a soul rewarding read. Don't miss it. I will read it again."
Oh my!
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
On the Page Again
Just got notified that my short story, "The Stronger," will be published this Spring in the 2011 edition of the Bacopa Literary Review, a print journal out of Gainesville, FL.
"The Stronger" is the title story of my 4-story collection that I privately call the Papaw Project. Back in 2007, I found stashed carefully in a trunk several short memoir story-sketches my grandfather had written in the 1930s, sketches which thinly fictionalized his family legends and his own experiences growing up as a bookish farm boy in Southern Indiana just before World War I.
Some quality of half-seen treasure in these sketches called out to me, the middle-aged granddaughter. I chose four of them and took the fictionalizing further. Fiction is not only the lie that tells the truth, it is the lie that reveals the truth. I have now finished 2 stories, am rewriting a third, with the fourth in outline, waiting.
And now the title story will see the light of day! Thank you, Bacopa Literary Review! I will be back here with more information about where this journal can be purchased.
"The Stronger" is the title story of my 4-story collection that I privately call the Papaw Project. Back in 2007, I found stashed carefully in a trunk several short memoir story-sketches my grandfather had written in the 1930s, sketches which thinly fictionalized his family legends and his own experiences growing up as a bookish farm boy in Southern Indiana just before World War I.
Some quality of half-seen treasure in these sketches called out to me, the middle-aged granddaughter. I chose four of them and took the fictionalizing further. Fiction is not only the lie that tells the truth, it is the lie that reveals the truth. I have now finished 2 stories, am rewriting a third, with the fourth in outline, waiting.
And now the title story will see the light of day! Thank you, Bacopa Literary Review! I will be back here with more information about where this journal can be purchased.
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