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.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
On the Air Again
I had another interview on WFHB's "bloomingOUT" LGBT talk show, on January 6.
I stand under the B in LGBT, and it was fun to talk with host Helen Harrell about finding liberation to write about desire for men, in the voice of a gay man -- the permanently fabulous Ross Lamos.
Blogger isn't allowing me to use the "Link" feature on the toolbar, so here's the URL:
http://wfhb.org/news/bloomingout-january-6-2011
I stand under the B in LGBT, and it was fun to talk with host Helen Harrell about finding liberation to write about desire for men, in the voice of a gay man -- the permanently fabulous Ross Lamos.
Blogger isn't allowing me to use the "Link" feature on the toolbar, so here's the URL:
http://wfhb.org/news/bloomingout-january-6-2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
What Readers Are Saying
Seven reviews are now up at Amazon. Five are 5-star, two are 4-star.
Jeffrey W Miller gets it, like totally:
"Faithfully captured, the dynamics of both time periods make the novel a living landscape for the exploration of hidden histories and personal revelation. The mystery of the self is still alive in the modern world. Through this novel, the question is opened, what events and relationships do we each still carry from our own reincarnational pasts that continue to influence and direct our lives today? And if discovered, what knowledge would arise to change us?"
Jeffrey W Miller gets it, like totally:
"Faithfully captured, the dynamics of both time periods make the novel a living landscape for the exploration of hidden histories and personal revelation. The mystery of the self is still alive in the modern world. Through this novel, the question is opened, what events and relationships do we each still carry from our own reincarnational pasts that continue to influence and direct our lives today? And if discovered, what knowledge would arise to change us?"
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