Charlie Quimby, author of the just-released (today, in fact, yay!) novel Monument Road is going to the hardest working man in MN letters. Seriously, take a gander at that list of upcoming events below. Wow….
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Sex & Violence
Evan Carter is used to being the Eternal New Guy. Moved from school to school because of his father’s work schedule, Evan is never around long enough to make friends. He’s also not interested in…
Robots & Otters & Losing Sleep
The thing I love about reading books by Kurtis Scaletta (who you should know is a friend of mine), is that they zap me back in time to when it seemed my only responsibility and…
Vacation: All I ever wanted
Sarah Stonich got me good. I had no idea her book Vacationland was a collection of linked short stories rather than a conventional novel. So there I was, enjoying the plight of a visual artist living…
The Cydonian Pyramid
When I met briefly met Pete Hautman last year, I enthusiastically gushed over how much I loved The Obsidian Blade. Looking back, it was one of those embarrassing moments where I talked too fast, too…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Khary Jackson, poet
On his About Me page, Khary Jackson writes: “I am a poet, teaching artist, playwright, actor, dancer and sometime musician. I am a Detroit native, currently representing the Twin Cities. I aim to be a…
6 Questions We Always Ask: David J. Schwartz, author
Today is the launch of Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib a new Kindle serial by all-around awesome David J. Schwartz. This harkens back to the old-timey days when authors, like Charles…
Goblin Secrets
At the 2012 National Book Awards ceremony, when the Young People’s Literature winner was announced I thought, “Goblin Secrets, wha..?” I was shocked because Goblin Secrets is a fantasy novel up against books about drug…
Little Wolves
I have been waiting for another book by Thomas Maltman ever since I read his first novel The Night Birds. Ten pages in, I was mesmerized by the descriptions of locusts crunching under boots in…
Part Scooby-Doo, Part Stand By Me, Totally Awesome
One of the things I learned in the bajillion writing classes I took at The Loft is that when fiction is really good it can teach you things without ever seeming like a lecture or…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Thomas Maltman, author
I am stealing this lovely bio from Thomas Maltman’s website because as I type this it’s 3:18 on a Friday and all my brain cells have decided the weekend began eighteen minutes ago. But before…
Frozen solid
Everything changes the day Sadie Rose finds the photographs. The subject is captured in suggestive poses and as Sadie Rose studies them, her previously locked memories creak open. She remembers touching the fabric of the…