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The Goodreads Giveaway

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Goodreads Book Giveaway We Were Giants by Christopher Bowen Giveaway ends December 01, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win  

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Notes From The Road

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This trip has been a whirlwind for me. With every stop there are more people to meet, more buildings and streets and places to go. In some ways it has been emotional, too. There are many times I have felt at my rope’s end and questioning why I’m out here. But I think it comes […]

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Next Friday, October 18th Kickoff in Philadelphia

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The Bill Murray Post

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The man is like wine.

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Booking books

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Booking the tour over the last two weeks Let me start again. I get really introspective and reflective at night when I’m up late. So I’ve been booking parts of next month’s book tour in parcels: hostels, buses, parking. A friend whom I’ve mentioned here before, Nancy Stohlman, has agreed to consult me on a […]

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Ready for Preorder

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Consonant Sounds for My Constant Fish…

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I received a copy of Traci Chee’s Consonant Sounds for Fish Songs from Aqueous Books late last spring and promised thereafter to review somewhere, somehow, here now. Traci’s collection of short stories negotiates those strange twenty-something years that seem to have become a cliche in modern society, though the fact that they are cliche is […]

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And they said, let it be…

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The tour slots are filling up and taking shape in ways I never thought for October. We’ve picked out a cover image for Michael Bazzett’s forthcoming chapbook ‘The Unspoken Jokebook’ by a graphic designer and photographer, Chris Parsons. Below is the image: http://parsonspicture.com/ http://www.everydayparsons.blogspot.com/  

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2013 Summer Chapbook Winners Announced

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I want to personally thank the lit world in general for their support, candidness, and yes, competitiveness. After drilling through a number of difficult manuscripts, the summer judges Adam, Ethel and Micah have concluded this year’s books for Burning River for next year. The following are our winners: Hybrid: Justin J. Brouckaert Justin J. Brouckaert is […]

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I can’t get enough of this guy…

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A great song. But how many people really, I mean really know without a doubt, what it is like to give of themselves like this. Take the following clip from Alexi live. This reminds me so well of what I go through every time I read my fiction in public. I remember my first reading […]

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