tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3583282712685453717.post6273696017775024795..comments2024-01-17T06:06:26.709-04:00Comments on Bajan Rosa Books: I have found the Paranormal Book Series of total and utter GOLDAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214384491471955864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3583282712685453717.post-88111118559057129922012-03-25T23:46:21.153-04:002012-03-25T23:46:21.153-04:00RESENT: book review request by award-winning autho...RESENT: book review request by award-winning author<br /><br />Dear Rosa,<br /><br />I'm an award-winning author with a new book of fiction. Ugly To Start<br />With is a series of thirteen interrelated stories about teen life <br />published by West Virginia University Press in November<br />of 2011.<br /><br />Can I interest you in reviewing it? <br /><br />I wrote to you this past fall, but lost much of my AOL mail from that<br />time, thanks to overwhelming SPAM. If you replied, my apologies.<br /><br />Perhaps you now have more time to consider a book review or Q&A?<br /><br />My book's only 160 pages short. The writing is easy and open, and all<br />the stories are interconnected--same hero and story arc throughout. It<br />reads like a brisk novel in the form of stories.<br /><br /><br />If you write me back at johnmcummings@aol.com, I can email you a PDF of my book. <br /><br />My publisher, I should add, can also offer your readers a free excerpt of my book through a link from your blog to my publisher's website:<br />http://wvupressonline.com/cummings_ugly_to_start_with_9781935978084<br /><br />Here’s what Jacob Appel, celebrated author of <br />Dyads and The Vermin Episode, says about my new collection: "In Ugly to Start With, set in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, Cummings tackles the challenges of boyhood adventure and family conflict in a taut, crystalline style that captures the triumphs and tribulations of small-town life. He has a gift for transcending the particular experiences to his characters to capture the universal truths of human affection and suffering--emotional truths that the members of his audience will recognize from their own experiences of childhood and adolescence.”<br /><br />My short stories have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals, including North American Review, The Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Chattahoochee Review. Twice I have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. My short story "The Scratchboard Project" received an honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007.<br /><br />I am also the author of the nationally acclaimed coming-of-age novel The Night I Freed John Brown (Philomel Books, Penguin Group, 2009), winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers (Grades 7-12) and one of ten books recommended by USA TODAY.<br /><br />For more information about me, please visit:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Cummings<br /><br />Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing back from you.<br /><br />Kindly,<br /><br />John Michael CummingsJohn Michael Cummingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00571255538205741563noreply@blogger.com