Angels Knoll, Downtown Los Angeles
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?”
- Jane Eyre.
Cate. 24. Southern California. Bilingual. A person who writes.
I once studied to be an actual librarian. A book store is my second favorite kind of store; a grocery store takes the top prize. I love Mythbusters and Criminal Minds. And The Borgias. And anything indie. I love lists. One of my biggest fears is getting stuck underwater but funny, I am a certified SCUBA diver. I might be living in sunny SoCal but gritty New York City owns my heart, and you know what they say… “Where the heart is.” Hollywood and Broadway have prime real estate in my soul. BIGBANG rocks.
I own a B&N nook. And an iPad 2. I still buy books.
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I could not get the Review Policy (on the dropdown) to open; can you tell me if you accept contemporary fiction ebooks (self-published) from authors for review?
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re: book review request by award-winning author
Dear Reading Good Books:
I’m an award-winning author with a new book of fiction out this fall. Ugly To Start With is a series of thirteen interrelated stories about childhood published by West Virginia University Press.
Can I interest you in reviewing it?
If you write me back at johnmcummings@aol.com, I can email you a PDF of my book. If you require a bound copy, please ask, and I will forward your reply to my publisher. Or you can write directly to Abby Freeland at:
Abby.Freeland@mail.wvu.edu
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:
http://wvupressonline.com/cummings_ugly_to_start_with_9781935978084
Here’s what Jacob Appel, celebrated author of
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.”
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.
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.
For more information about me, please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Cummings
Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing back from you.
Kindly,
John Michael Cummings