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I’m Gusto Dave Jackson, Publicity Chair for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and I wouldn’t be worth my salt if I didn’t contact book lovers to tout our blog and organization. Chiseled in Rock http://chiseledinrock.blogspot.com features side-splitting satire, cartoons, and some flash fiction for intellectual readers.

This week we’re poking fun at Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston. And today’s very short piece about the lengths to which writers go to get published will crack you up!

We also plug an occasional book and interview bestselling authors. For writers, we offer tips and agent/editor interviews. RMFW has several bestselling and award winning authors as members such as Mario Acevedo, Joan Johnston, C.J. Box, and Carol Berg. You are invited to follow “The Rock” for contests, entertainment, and an insight to the world of writing!

American Pastoral I am late arriving at Philip Roth. I thought Patrimony (about Roth's father and his death) was a masterpiece, equal to Tolstoy in truth. American Pastoral is another Zuckerman-framed novel, with a swirl of Zuckerman's imaginative projections into the life of "Swede," a handsome and successful classmate who went on to marry Miss New Jersey and to take over his father's glove business. Swede's daughter, Merry, however, proves to be an ideological murderer at age 16, and the burden of the speculation--Zuckerman's speculation about the Swede's speculation--is a "thick" imagining of how this is possible, credible, "true." The novel does not accrue by scene or by plot logic so much as by speculation, and there are brilliant mots throughout, probing the beliefs of American dreams and nightmares.