A review for The Mere Weight of Words

Every step of writing for publication is difficult in its way.

It’s so relieving to finish a book. You’ve done it. It’s alive.

But then it’s scary to send it out. It’s nervewracking waiting to hear back from publishers. It’s disheartening to receive rejections.

But then it’s bliss to receive acceptance.

But then it’s incredibly hard work to go back to that book you thought was done and then take it up again before publication. It’s grueling to ask for blurbs. It’s time-consuming to promote. It’s agony waiting for reviews.

But then…then…you get reviewed.

And sometimes, you get a reviewer who understands why you wrote what you wrote.

“The Mere Weight of Words is literary fiction written with a muscularity of prose that exercises the talents of the writer and the expectations of the reader. It is therefore exactly what literary fiction should be or should at least aspire to. … This is a novella in Technicolor and HD and 3D all at once. It has a Cubist blending of past and present that reflects the true movements of the mind and the leaps between the different phases are done in such a way that Virginia Woolf cannot be excluded from Halston’s influences. With its full-bodied rendering of character and bold writing style The Mere Weight of Words will leave a lasting legacy in the mind of the reader.” — Jessica Maybury, The Rumpus

Read the full review here.