TNBBC's May Author/Reader Discussion Book: From Here

My collection From Here is The Next Best Book Club's May pick! You can join in the discussion the week of May 18th. For copies of the book, TNBBC will be giving away five print and five ebooks on Goodreads; the contest runs through April 8th; winners will be announced here and via email on April 9th. You can enter to win a book or sign up for the discussion here

About From Here: The twelve stories in FROM HERE explore the dislocations and intersections of people searching, running away, staying put. Their physical and emotional landscapes run the gamut, but in the end, they're all searching for a place to call home.

Good luck!

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.