All Blog Posts Tagged 'literary' (78)

About Jesus Is Already Here:

Changing racial perceptions in the tumultuous 1960s brings conflict to a rural Southern family. A short story.

About Author Augusta Trobaugh:

Augusta Trobaugh is a native Southerner…

About The Runaway:

Tom and Son Jesus, two 12-year-old boys–one black and one white born the same hour of the same day–are best friends, bound by deep ties and who spend their days dreaming, fishing, and trying to escape work. But their fun comes to an abrupt halt when…

Literary agents have a substantial role to play in the book industry. You won’t find a book agent idle-either he would be searching for an author or a publisher.  They need to have a handy list of both parties so that they can play their role in helping the book to get published finally. If you are a new author and a rather depressed one thinking that you have no takers for your new venture, don’t worry. There are plenty of…

In A Thousand Pardons, Jonathan Dee seems quite aware of the fact that he is writing a familiar frame from the beginning. Rather than giving readers a painstakingly detailed account of the missteps that lead Helen and Ben to a therapist's couch for their "Date Night", Dee…

About The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene:

Aaron Greene is a shy, stay-in-the-background young Jewish boy, the child of shy, stay-in-the-background parents. Only a year out of high school, he has a part-time job as a mailboy in a large Atlanta bank. One morning, on his way to work, he is kidnapped and the…

Chocolates and roses and sweet little notes, candlelit dinners and quiet nights alone. But did you consider sentimental Italian dogs, lovelorn teens and perpetually aggrieved mobsters? Did you consider vampires?



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The last time I’d cried because of a book was years ago and the culprit was Marley and Me. Crazy Quilt is such a different book yet so alike in many ways. Both deal with death and loss, both are incredibly moving stories, and both remind us how short and precious life is. 

The story begins when our protagonist, Flora Adams, decides to visit…

About After Eli:

In the Nahella Valley of Appalachia, a rumor is whispered about a man named Eli Pettit and the small fortune in stolen money he supposedly hid on his farm before disappearing, leaving a wife, daughter and sister-in-law to tend the land and guard the money – if the money even…

About The Sea of Light:

The Sea of Light is a wise, beautiful, and very American story of three women and their desire to excel and win – and heal one another – in the highly charged world of athletic competition.

Angelita is the hurricane that brings down a plane carrying a team of…

About Little Peg:

Peg O’Crerieh is a wife, mother, creative writing instructor, and occasional resident of the Everview Residential Treatment Center, which she is once again preparing to leave. Awaiting Peg at home are her devoted family; the normal pressures of daily life; and, most important, the…

About What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

Having to work on New Year’s Eve sucks. Maybe not so much when you can work with just your hands and leave your brain free to plan a nice little New Year’s Day surprise for an old nemesis. Revenge is sweet. Yes, it will be a happy new year after all! A holiday short…

About Straightening Up:

For most people the holidays mean family, togetherness, and focusing on the things that matter most in life. For Greg it means taking the artwork off the walls, putting away photographs, and sleeping single, because this Christmas his partner Michael’s mother is coming to visit.…

About Christmas, Past and Present:

Gary and Don are looking forward to celebrating the holidays: party planning, tree trimming, and getting ready for a visit from their son Josh. For Gary, however, the memories of past Christmases are beginning to fade, falling casualty to a cruel twist of fate. It’s up to…

I had a wonderful lunch yesterday with a fellow friend and writer, and it brought back memories of days past submitting query letters in search of landing a big time literary agent.  It also brought back some of the valuable lessons I learned during that process. 

About To Hell with Fate:

Young love is a myth.

It’s something we’re conditioned to expect by movies and stories. It’s something we all wanted but could never find. And even when we get older and know the truth, we still wish, just a little, that we had it.

When two young cousins find…

About Joseph’s Captivity:

A grumpy Joseph finds it hard to give thanks when he is exiled, not to Egypt, but to eighteenth century New England. A Thanksgiving short story.

About Author KB Inglee:

KB Inglee lives in Delaware and works at two local…

About The Cat Who Came in From the Cold:

In this sentimental, didactic fable, Masson imagines how the lone, nonsocial, domesticated animal came to share hearth and home.

Billi, an Asian leopard cat, lives in a mango forest in ancient India. He enjoys his independence, but he feels pangs of…

About The Year the Lights Came On:

First published in 1976,The Year the Lights Came On was Terry Kay’s debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed…

About Dreamfisher:

Ostracized for speaking her mind and standing up against a man she doesn’t wish to marry, a young girl is cast out of her village and forced to fend for herself in the mountains. When she ventures too closely to a lake and nearly drowns, she is rescued by a man from Athens who introduces himself as Herodotus. What…

About Poets are Eaten as a Delicacy in Japan:

It’s the ‘what ifs?’ that keep thirty-something Tommie Shaw awake at night. Well, mostly it’s her big housemate Blob, a morbidly obese actor and Morrissey impersonator, who keeps her awake as he vogues around their shabby kitchen. But the ‘what ifs?’ are…