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January 7, 2016

An essay “On Being Indie” at The Next Best Book Club blog

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I’m more than grateful to Lori Hettler at TNBBC for publishing my essay “The Holy Action” today. I’ve been a fan of TNBBC for a long time and it’s exciting to be contributing to the blog.


Read the essay, if you’d like.


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Published on January 07, 2016 07:35

January 6, 2016

Early praise for Brown Bottle

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I’m awfully thankful to these early blurbs from two writers I greatly admire.


Brown Bottle will be on shelves in early February.


 


“With striking authenticity, Compton delivers a story that is at once tender and a punch straight to the gut. Brown Bottle is honest, heartbreaking and echoing with desperation rendered in precise, razor-sharp prose. Sheldon Lee Compton writes with a reckoning force.”


Steph Post, author of A Tree Born Crooked


 


“Sheldon Lee Compton’s Brown Bottle is a sharply written story of a man scorched by circumstances but who embodies Harry Crews’ dictum that survival is triumph enough. Compton articulates the real hardscrabble world of contemporary Kentucky Appalachia he so intimately understands, writing with a stark and powerful but emotionally subtle voice. Readers of Chris Offutt and Breece Pancake will have an accomplished new author to add to their shelves.”


Charles Dodd White, author of A Shelter of Others and Sinners of Sanction County


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Published on January 06, 2016 21:29

December 28, 2015

Signed copies of my out of print story collections shipped to your door

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Due to the dissolution of Foxhead Books last month, my story collections Where Alligators Sleep and The Same Terrible Storm are now effectively out of print.


This being said, I’m making available to anyone who might want to buy a copy of these two collections my remaining copies here at home. Below is the information, and, if interested, please visit my Contact page and get in touch in whatever way is best for you.


Please include your preferred shipping address (I’ll pay for postage, of course) and your specifications.


Should you prefer to use PayPal to secure your order, my PayPal is shelcompton at gmail dot com.


 


The Same Terrible Storm – 2 copies, discounted price $10 signed, inscribed to your specifications, and shipped to your door.


Where Alligators Sleep – 15 copies, discounted price $15 signed, inscribed to your specifications, and shipped to your door.


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Published on December 28, 2015 12:52

December 26, 2015

December 25, 2015

Jellyfish Review publishes my story “Lead Like Moses”

Could not be happier to have my short story “Lead Like Moses” appear today at Jellyfish Review.


Editor Christopher James, bless his heart, had this to say about the story:


“Lead Like Moses” by Sheldon Lee Compton is like nothing else we’ve ever published. So exciting to share pieces that challenge what flash fiction should be.”


Also, please take careful note of the artwork Jellyfish included with the story. So spot on.


Many, many thanks to Chris for choosing this odd narrative for a journal that has been publishing wonderful work.


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Published on December 25, 2015 09:24

December 24, 2015

“More Sideways Than Up” published today at Fried Chicken and Coffee

I’m so happy to say that Rusty Barnes published my short story “More Sideways Than Up” today at his online journal Fried Chicken and Coffee.


It would be wonderful if you visited the site and read the story.


A very nice Christmas Eve gift from a favorite editor, writer, and friend.


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Published on December 24, 2015 17:25

November 27, 2015

“K” makes Wigleaf’s Top 50 fiction longlist

I’m way late on seeing this but my short story “K” published at Dogzplot last year wound up on the longlist for Wigleaf‘s Top 50 (very) short fictions 2015. Many thanks to editor Jesse Eagle and founder editor Barry Graham for publishing the piece and to Wigleaf’s editors for this year’s list Mel Bosworth and Roxane Gay for the longlist selection.


To read the story, if so inclined, find it at this link.


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Published on November 27, 2015 07:33

November 24, 2015

Bottom Dog Press set to publish my debut novel BROWN BOTTLE in 2016

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Happy to announce today I learned my novel Brown Bottle will be published next year by Bottom Dog Press/ Bird Dog Publishing as part of its Appalachian Fiction Series.


Thanks to everyone who put a set of eyes on it in the past year and thanks especially to my good friend Charles Dodd White and Bottom Dog publisher Larry Smith.


This manuscript had, at one time, been scheduled to be published by the wonderful Ryan W. Bradley’s press Artistically Declined Press as a novella, but grew into a novel after a certain period of time working on it. Ryan worked with a sizable part of the manuscript during that time and for that I couldn’t be more appreciative.


Bottom Dog Press/Bird Dog Publishing is a not-for-profit, independent, literary publisher based in Ohio. Visit their site and learn more.


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Published on November 24, 2015 10:26

September 29, 2015

My chapter for Entropy Magazine’s community novel project is live today

As part of Entropy Magazine’s community novel project Their Days Are Numbered, the chapter I contributed is live today at their site. Visit here to read it, and whatever else of the novel you’d like.


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Published on September 29, 2015 14:09

“Dangerous Stories” included in the Ohio University Press anthology Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean

50126347Many thanks to Karen McElmurray and Adrian Blevins for including my essay “Dangerous Stories” in the new anthology Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, recently out from Ohio University Press. You can get a copy here, if so inclined.


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Published on September 29, 2015 14:01