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Mass Cultural Council Grant for Literature
I'm excited to have received a Grant for Creative Individuals for Literature from the Mass Cultural Council. I'm incredibly grateful for their support of my work and the arts community across Massachusetts, and I am honored to be in such good company among so many talented creators.More From the...
Atlas, Three Score and Ten – Beloit Fiction Journal
A man with three daughters has many worries, opens the story of Rostislav Kazlov, third in line in his family's dynasty of Ganaego’s strongest men. And worries, especially about his youngest daughter Zoya, who is on her second ill-fated marriage, are what keep Rostislav awake at night. "Atlas,...
Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist
I am thrilled to announce that my book, Mending What Is Broken, has been selected as a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the General Fiction/Novel (70,000 to 100,000 words) category. I am deeply grateful for the support of my readers, friends, and family, who have been with me...
Children of Steel – Short Fiction from Our Historic Steel Mill Towns by Gloria McMillan
A collection of short stories by men and women who grew up in the soot and smoke—and now, ruins—of America’s great industrial complexes. The steel corporations were the engines, the dynamos, that set the mill towns going and kept them spinning for decades. You smelled the mill, you tasted it on...
The Ravens Perch – Queen Anne Cherries
The first summer and winter were taken up with the move. He was five. Packing up his things in one house and unpacking his things in another, shopping with the family for a new sofa and kitchen table at Tonnesdatter’s, then Sears, and finally at Kaufmann’s, where his dad scowled at the price tags....
Author2Author- Interview with Bill Kenower
Bill welcomes author Robert McKean to Author2Author where writer talk about writing and life. Rob shares how his love of writing began, and where his journey has taken him, and how it has shaped his perspective. LISTEN HERE. More From the Blog
Largehearted Boy- Playlist for Mending What Is Broken
"Peter Sanguedolce swims in music. He remembers his Nonno Franco—known all his life as Fatty—playing a tinny upright on the mezzanine of a pungent cigar factory. Fatty regaled his bored cigar-rollers with everything from Giuseppe Verdi to the Big Bopper. Peter’s Uncle Nico commanded the organ at...
NPR – Interview with Suzanne Lang- A Novel Idea
"McKean's characters are so palpable...and we can relate to aspects of their humanity and also their radical behaviors that are just off-kilter from what we might imagine of ourselves and others. And it’s in that slight extreme and unfilteredness that his characters are endeared to us." - Suzanne...
Authority Magazine – 5 Things You Need To Be a Successful Author
"... Write everyday. Does not need to be anything formal like a story, novel, or poem, a journal will do nicely, a long letter (remember those?) to a friend." Read the full article by clicking here.More From the Blog
JMWW – The Streets of Your Town
"... We are both indebted to Joe Taylor, Livingston’s director, for his generous support. How did winning the Tartt Prize affect me? Tremendously, in a word. As you well know, we labor countless hours on a manuscript without guarantee that our efforts will ever see the light of day, will ever be...
Booksie’s Blog
"Peter Sanguedolce is stuck and he knows it. He also knows he needs to do something about it but isn't sure what. It seems like yesterday that he was the head of the business he inherited and brought back from the edge of poverty. He was married to a woman he loved and had a daughter,...
In Conversation with Terry Shepherd
Mending What Is Broken was born out of a short story about a man names Peter Sanguedolce. But Peter was too good to lose. He had more of a story to tell. Listen to the backstory of how a short story evovled into a novel.More From the Blog