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  • SHAWL OF MIDNIGHT by JACQUELINE ST. JOAN
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  • Watch RAYA TUFFAHA Perform "Obstacles to Friendship With God"
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Web Link Don Tassone's GET BACK: Reviews

Get Back--to the joys of boyhood.  When I learned that Get Back is a first published book by Don Tassone, my question was, "Why did he wait so long?" Get Back is a heart-warming account of life! While it focuses on events in the lives of young boys, it's great reading for anyone who has ever been a boy, raised a boy, loved a boy, or was a tomboy. Get Back reveals the positive side of the phrase, "Boys will be boys." I forced myself to slow down as I read the twelve stories because I wanted to savor the truth and delight embedded in each of them.

Get Back could be a stimulating conversation starter for dads and sons, grandpas and grandsons, mentors and boys. Read a story and see where it leads the conversation about events and escapades in one's own life. If girls/women as moms, sisters, girlfriends read Get Back, they will gain a greater understand of young guys. I'm planning on Get Back as a Father's Day gift....maybe Mother's Day, too Thank you, Don Tassone!  ---patti normile  5 stars out of 5 stars
 
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Web Link Don Tassone and Christine Sneed--One on One

Best-selling author Christine Sneed goes one-on-one with Don Tassone about his just-released debut novel, Drive.    (Sneed's novels include The Virginity of Famous Men (2016);  Paris, He Said (2015); and Little Known Facts (2013).

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Web Link Podcast: Don Tassone Talks With Rick Tocquigny on Life Lessons Radio

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Web Link Steven Wineman blogs about journaling for THE THERAPY JOURNAL

Steven Wineman's essay about journaling for THE THERAPY JOURNAL has been published by CreateWriteNow, a blog about journaling, by Mari McCarthy, author of the international bestseller, JOURNALING POWER.  Steve's essay is here:  http://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/the-therapy-journal-a-novel

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Web Link Albany Times Union Interview with Lisa Brognano

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Web Link Geoffrey Craig

Geoffrey Craig's The One-Eyed Man and Other Stories will be coming out later this Spring. 

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Web Link Midwest Review of Books on Lisa Brognano

February's issue of the Midwest Review of Books features Lisa Brognano's In the Interest of Faye.  http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/feb_18.htm#fiction 

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Web Link Ozark Studies Symposium Features Golden Antleope Writers

Deadline for presenting at the Sept. 20-22, 2018, Ozark Studies Symposuim is July 1.   Note that Golden Antelope writers like Craig Albin, Phil Howerton, and Dave Malone are frequently involved in this venture.  Here's a link to the 2017 events.  https://ozarksymposium.wp.missouristate.edu/assets/ozarksymposium/program.pdf

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Web Link C.D. Albin Interview about HARD TOWARD HOME

This  2015 interview with Axe, Fire, Mule author is specifically about his award-winning collection of short stories, but the insights in it are relevant to Albin's poetry as well.

http://necessaryfiction.com/blog/AnInterviewwithCDAlbin

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Web Link Steve Wineman on his THERAPY JOURNAL

https://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/the-therapy-journal-a-novel

Click on the link for Steve Wineman's essay about how he wrote THERAPY JOURNAL.  It's an important addition to your reading experience.

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Web Link Nancy Minor's MALHEUR AUGUST: a visual aid from THE ATLANTIC

In July 2017, THE ATLANTIC republished its 1941 profile of Vale, Oregon's Independence Day festivities--a treasure trove of photos by Russell Lee, one of the great photographers of the FSA.  Like his colleagues Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks, Lee documented everyday Americans of the 1930s and 40s--from kids raising cows to former slaves facing discrimination, to Japanese Americans being sent to internment camps, to coal miners working deep underground.  The Vale, Oregon series is a near-perfect introduction to the look and feel of Nancy Minor's 1940s characters in MALHEUR AUGUST.

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Web Link MALHEUR AUGUST: Barb Randall's Review in MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

Barb Randall's review of Malheur August is up on the November 2018 "Reviewer's Bookwatch" at the Midwest Review of Books.  It first appeared in the Lake Oswego Review in mid-October.

Click on:  http://www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/nov_18.htm#rc 

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Web Link Don Tassone at Ohioana Book Festival, April 27, 2019

Don Tassone is one of 153 authors to be featured at the 13th annual Ohioana Book Festival at the Columbus Metropolitan Library on April 27, 2019.  He'll be focusing mainly on Small Bites, but also talking about his other books. 

Link is here:  http://www.ohioana.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Feb-2019-Ohioana-Newsletter.pdf

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Web Link "Serenity at Fifty" Reviews Guerin's YOU CAN SEE MORE FROM UP HERE

One of many praises for Mark Guerin's novel!  https://serenityatfifty.com/book-review-you-can-see-more-from-up-here/

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Web Link Raya Tuffaha Performs "Obstacles to Friendship With God" at BRAVE YOUNG VOICES (Youtube)

Tuffaha's performance is gripping.  The poem is in her forthcoming collection, To All the Yellow Flowers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mvxS99ryw8

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Web Link Mark Guerin Interviewed by Suanne Schafer

Schafer's questions elicit thoughtful, honest, colorful responses from Mark Guerin.  Here are a couple of small samples.

 

SS:  Have you made any literary pilgrimages?

MG: In college, a group of us student writers went to Oxford, Mississippi, the hometown of William Faulker, visited his big, drafty old house, and touched his ancient typewriter. From that amazing setting, with all the Live Oaks and the Spanish Moss hanging everywhere, it was clear those novels could not have been written anywhere else. While there, I shook the hand of Eudora Welty upon receiving a prize for best undergraduate poem in the nation. It was all pretty cool for a young college kid.

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SS: What would a fly on the wall see if he watched you while you are writing?

MG: Me, with a laptop in my lap, pounding away, scratching my head, pulling at my beard, then pounding away again.

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SS: Do you ever incorporate something that happened to you in real life into your novels?

MG: My novel is semi-biographical, based on my teenaged years living in a small factory town in northern Illinois. It’s about how my father, a former Air Force colonel, doctor and hospital commander ended up working at an automobile plant doing physicals and handling worker’s comp claims, and how his hatred of that job affected his family – and me, as his son. My novel starts with those facts and then speculates, in fiction, as to how this all came to be and how a father and son relationship in this situation might evolve. So, yes, my novel very heavily incorporates my real life into its fictional narrative.

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SS: Which scene did you find the most challenging to write and why?

MG: The protagonist’s confrontations with his father and discussions with his friends about his father’s abuses were difficult to write because they were based on my memories of my father. Getting at those truths is tough to do without being overly sentimental or, conversely, failing to address the emotional heart of the matter. Being emotionally honest is never easy, especially when it is based on your own life.

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SS: What’s something memorable you’ve heard from your readers/fans? What’s been the best compliment?

MG: I’ve heard from a number of readers how my depiction of the father/son relationship in my book resonated with them and made them wonder what was going on in their own fathers’ lives that made them drink or become abusive. If my book helps some readers see their fathers in a new, perhaps more forgiving light, then that’s the best compliment they could give me.

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SS: What kind of research did you think you had to do? How much was actually needed?

MG: I felt like I had to be accurate about immigration law in 1974 and 2004, and about automobile assembly plants, how they work and are managed, how management interacted with unions in those days, and on the medical condition and deterioration one of the characters undergoes. I also did a lot of research on the Braceros program one of the immigrant characters went though in the 50s and 60s that allowed Mexican migrant workers to work legally in the US for a while. All of that was needed. Outside those legal and technical issues that required factual accuracy to be believable, I didn’t do much research.

SS: Where and when is your book set? How did you decide on the setting? The time frame?

MG: The book is set in northern Illinois in 1974 and 2004. The 1974 timeline was based on my summer job at an automobile assembly plant in 1974. The 2004 timeline was based on an automobile accident my real-life father had when he was 94 and his hospitalization during that time. For plot reasons, I needed the characters to live in a large city rather than the small town I actually lived in at that time, so I created the fictional city of Belford, which is a mashup of the real town of Belvidere, Illinois, and its much larger neighbor, Rockford, Illinois.

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