Tag: literature
member name: Neva B.
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December 04, 2008 10:58 AM EST --
Brighid Editions is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of St. Peter's Monsters , Neva Bryan's debut novel. Readers have praised Ms. Bryan for writing with an "evocative sense . . .
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December 02, 2009 01:00 PM EST --
Wren remembered the way the water had felt the night she fell in the flooding creek. It had carried her away and covered her until the world grew dim and distant. That seemed a good thing to her now, . . .
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May 11, 2009 12:32 PM EDT --
Sometimes people who read my first novel -- St. Peter’s Monsters -- come back to me wanting to know if part of the book, or all of it, is real.
“Is the character Wren based on you?” they ask. . . .
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June 26, 2009 01:39 PM EDT --
Mara mentioned villanelles at Spoken Word last weekend. Here's a form I like: the pantoum.
It is a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third . . .
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June 04, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
Excerpt from “Sawmill Boys.” Appalachian Heritage, vol. 34, no. 4 (Fall 2006).
For more information about Appalachian Heritage , Berea College's literary journal, and to order back issues, . . .
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July 10, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
St. Peter’s Monsters is available at these fine booksellers and retail stores: Joseph Beth, Lexington, KY; Family Drug, Lebanon, VA; Coffee Buy the Book, Pulaski, VA; Wise County Historical . . .
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May 22, 2009 11:21 AM EDT --
Visit my tent at Abingdon's Plumb Alley Day, Saturday, May 23, all day.
I'll be somewhere in the vicinity of Hurt & Associates and 159 W. Main Street.
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April 27, 2009 12:43 PM EDT --
My book (St. Peter's Monsters) is available at the following local venues: Zazzy'Z in Abingdon, Tales of the Lonesome Pine in Big Stone Gap, Historical Society in Wise, Cozy Corner in Whitesburg, . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
"So tell me about your current writing project." "What's your next book about?"
Nothing breaks me out into a cold sweat faster than statements and questions like these. Why?
Superstition.
Normally . . .
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July 02, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
When author Alice Hoffman read Roberta Silman’s review of her novel The Story Sisters , the author was not pleased. The review wasn’t stellar but certainly it wasn’t crushing. Hoffman, . . .
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July 21, 2009 01:13 PM EDT --
“I loved the flow of your book. You jumped around in time so seamlessly. Congratulations on a job well done!” — C.O.
“I absolutely loved your book and I read at least . . .
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June 08, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
“It’s one of the best novels I’ve read that uses this area as the frame around the story. You captured the beauty of . . . Southwest Virginia in a love story filled with twists and . . .
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