Goodreads Giveaway: FROM HERE

The holidays are soon approaching (too soon?), and to celebrate our finalist placement in the USA Best Book Awards, Aqueous Books and I are offering five copies of my collection FROM HERE on Goodreads. I love giving and getting books for the holidays, and I know these five copies will wind up in good homes for the winter and beyond. What better than to curl up and visit other worlds on the page instead of cracking the ice off one's windshield? Let the spring do that for you. xo

Goodreads Book Giveaway

From Here

by Jen Michalski

Giveaway ends December 02, 2015.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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FROM HERE a finalist in the 2015 USA Best Book Awards

Excited that FROM HERE was a finalist in the 2015 USA Best Book Awards for short fiction. Congratulations to the winner, George Singleton, for his collection, CALLOUSTOWN, from Dzanc Books (who did very well this year), and congratulations to the other finalists and the 2000 nominated works.

You can read all about the winners here.

The Annotated From Here

On The Next Best Book Club blog today, really thrilled to "annotate" with footnotes my favorite story, "Lillian in White," in my forthcoming collection, From Here (Aqueous Books, September 30th), in terms of what I was thinking when I wrote it.

Footnote [7]: [7]. When I was a freshman, a guy wrote a song for me. It was one of my most memorable gifts ever—a song! —second to the Zippo he bought me for Christmas with my name inscribed on it. (And we weren’t even dating!) Anyway, the problem with the song is that he was a bass player and when he played it for me, he could only play the bass line, so it was hard to envision the rest. He was a huge King Crimson fan, and I always am relieved to have heard only the bass line, because maybe it sounded like a King Crimson song.

To read all footnotes, and the beginning of "Lillian in White," go here.

From Here Giveaway

Aqueous Books is giving away five copies of my forthcoming collection, From Here, on Goodreads! Add the book to your reading list and be entered for a chance to win:

Sometimes, after my hand had scarred and healed, I’d take a piece of one of Vanessa’s old plate shards and run it along the fleshy ridge, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Always, when I least expected it, it cut me."—"The Queen of Swords," in From Here