Goodreads Giveaway: The Summer She Was Under Water

There's still time to enter for a chance to win 1 of 5 copies of The Summer She Was Under Water at Goodreads! You can enter here.

Praise for Summer:

“There are no easy answers here but instead a family's dysfunction laid bare in all its messiness and heartbreak—and also its moments of occasional, near-accidental grace.”
—Katharine Noel, Halfway House

Win a Copy of The Summer She Was Under Water from Goodreads!

My second novel, The Summer She Was Under Water, will be released by Queens Ferry Press on August 9th, and we're giving away five free copies from Goodreads! Entries open at midnight on Sunday, July 23rd.

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The Summer She Was Under Water

by Jen Michalski

Giveaway ends August 31, 2016.

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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

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From Here

by Jen Michalski

Giveaway ends December 02, 2015.
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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

5/30/13: Some Good Reads

The Tide King is coming off the press soon—I'm so excited! If you haven't preordered, there's still time! You can visit the Black Lawrence Press website here. Also, please enter to win 1 of 10 free copies Black Lawrence Press is giving away on Goodreads. It's free, as long as you're signed up to Goodreads, and the contest ends on June 13th, so there's still plenty of time. You're feeling lucky—I know you are! The entry form is here.

Now that the second draft of my next novel is with my beloved (and extremely talented) editor (who I can't recommend enough), I am writing short stories again. It feels weird. I never thought I'd be happy going back to the short form, when the novel is so sprawling, encompassing, a great calculus equation. But there is nice algebra in short stories. It feels good to be working with different characters, in new situations. It feels good to use different words. And it's a relief to know that my story well isn't dried up.

I just finished Tim Wendel's novella Habana Libre, the story of a baseball player who must decide whether to defect to America or leave his the complicated but tantalizing Cuba. But, of course, it is more about Cuba, its inhabitants, about the invisible braids of family and duty and fear that bind us rather than physical barriers.

Like the pitchers he so often profiles (particularly in High Heat), Wendel has good mechanics. He's like Jamie Moyer; nothing flashy, but all the pitches. And if you sleep on him, he'll pop the glove behind you and put you back on the bench. Anyway, check it out on Amazon: it's published by the wonderful CityLit Press (who I worked with on City Sages: Baltimore).

Appearance on WYPR's "The Signal"

You can hear an excerpt of my forthcoming, novel, The Tide King, on WYPR's "The Signal" with Aaron Henkin. You can check out the podcast here. Also, please consider entering to win a copy from Goodreads; my publisher, Black Lawrence Press, is generously offering 10 copies to lucky readers! You can enter to win here. I hope everyone had a great mother's day!

Win a copy of Could You Be With Her Now

The Goodreads "First Reads" giveaway for Could You Be With Her Now starts tomorrow, December 1st. Dzanc has donated 15 copies for 15 lucky winners! You can enter tomorrow using the link below or the contest button on this website. Good luck, and if you do win, drop me a line. I'd love to know what you think. http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/37147-could-you-be-with-her-now