I'll be on a panel with Molly Patterson, Anne Valente, Alissa Nutting, and Gabriel Blackwell on publishing short story collections with small presses. Event Description: Despite the rumors, story collections do sell. The contemporary publishing world is a rich marketplace for fiction writers, with independent presses taking up where the New York houses have left […]
1K: "Industry Guide to Publishing: Fiction" 9:00am-10:15am on Friday, May 2nd Now more than ever you need to understand the inner workings of the marketplace before sending your hard-earned work of fiction to anyone (an agent, an editor, a publicist, a self-publisher). Do you know the difference between literary and commercial fiction? Or what makes […]
One of my favorite bookstores, Newtonville Books, will be hosting me for a reading on Wednesday, May 7th at 7 pm. I'll be reading with David Kalish, author of THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING. Very excited to meet him and hear him read. I mean, c'mon, the guy has power over the condensation of water. Had […]
More information coming soon. http://nantucketbookfestival.org/
I've never read with so many men before. I'm tempted to read something with no men in it just to balance things out. We'll see. The Press Room, Portsmouth
Along with Arna Bontemps Hemenway (ELEGY ON KINDERKLAVIER, Sarabande), Shya Scanlon (THE GUILD OF ST. COOPER, Dzanc), and Erika Wurth (CRAZY HORSE'S GIRLFRIEND, Curbside Splendor), I'll be reading on a panel entitled "The Short Story: A celebration of fiction's underrepresented form." Snazzy poster thanks to Kristen Radtke.
I'm looking forward to having a discussion with the Monadnock Writers Group in Peterborough, NH on Saturday, September 20th. Please join us if you're in the area! http://monadnockwriters.org/monthly-meetings/
I'll be appearing on a Flash Fiction panel at the Brattleboro Literary Festival. More details forthcoming soon! http://brattleboroliteraryfestival.org/authors/
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats has written a wildly imaginative novel entitled WOLF IN WHITE VAN. I'm thrilled to be interviewing him live onstage on this leg of his tour at the Coolidge Theater for an event sponsored by the Brookline Booksmith. http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/john-darnielle-wolf-white-van