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I was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana but consider my childhood home the green, rolling foothills of East Tennessee and the southern Appalachia mountains, settlement to all sorts of interesting people, composites of which can be found throughout my writing. Most of my adulthood I've spent in the Sandhills and Piedmont of central North Carolina, where I live now with my wife and family.

I received my B.A. in English from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, after which I was commissioned and served four years as an officer and paratrooper in the U.S. Army. In 2008 I was awarded a Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant for Literature. In addition to fiction, I write a blog called Without Envy: Raising a child with Type 1 Diabetes, which d...more


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Average rating: 3.82 · 50 ratings · 27 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
A Lovely, Indecent Departur...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions

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Steven Gilbert Steven Gilbert said: "5★ for Hamlet.

One of my goals for 2013: Read one Shakespeare play a month. This month was Hamlet and the following quote fits perfectly to the mindset of the main character in my next novel.

O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and reso
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How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig
Steven Gilbert is reading The Complete Pelican Shakespeare: 2★ to The Life of King Henry the Fifth.
I just could not get into this one. I suppose it might have meant more had I brushed up on my English history, but as it was there was just nothing there to hold my interest, but for this one bit of discovery: I loved that Shakespeare did not translate any of the French dialogue (those who have read my book will know why this makes me happy) :)
On to The Sonnets for June...
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Steven Gilbert made a comment on his review of Alas, Babylon
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"Jenny wrote: "I still want a sequel. *grin*"

It would be nice to see these people who survived so much go on to make the world a better place and not j...more
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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
read in June, 2013
I enjoy going back and reading books I read first as a young person to see if they hold the same power over me as they did then. Alas, Babylon did not disappoint. Though the writing is/was not spectacular—the first part reads much better than the las...more
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Countdown by Alan Weisman
Steven Gilbert said "yes" to attending Brown Bag Book club
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date: May 15, 2013 12:00PM
location: Greeneville-Greene County Library, Greeneville, TN, The United States
description: I'll be discussing my novel, A Lovely, Indecent Departure, with the Brown Bag Book Group in my hometown at the Greeneville-Greene County Library. For friends, old and new, come along and stop by for a visit.
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"Good point, Ninon. Perhaps what matters is the person more so than the age. Any chance you could make a guest appearance one day at school with your p...more "
More of Steven's books…
“We tell you, tapping on our brows,
The story as it should be,
As if the story of a house
Were told or ever could be.”
Edwin Robinson

Cormac McCarthy
“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

[Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007]”
Cormac McCarthy

Ernest Hemingway
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

E.M. Forster
“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
E.M. Forster

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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message 5: by Owen

Owen Jones Hello Steven,

I hope you're well.

Thank's for accepting my request of friendship.

Regards,
Owen
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message 4: by Marsha (last edited Nov 12, 2012 02:22pm)

Marsha Hubler Steve, thanks for friending me on Goodreads. I appreciate it. If you have any ladies in your life, I have an Amish fiction series, THE LOVES OF SNYDER COUNTY, for any age and THE KEYSTONE STABLES SERIES, girl/horse fiction for gals 10-14. Thanks again!
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message 3: by Mike

Mike Thanks for the invite, Steven. Good luck with your work.


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Diana Nice to meet you!


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