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Eric Laster

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in New York, The United States

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http://staticnovel.com

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Fiction, Young Adult, Children's

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A New Yorker by birth, Eric Laster lives in Los Angeles. After a successful stint as a ghostwriter, Eric re-launched under his own name with the middle-grade novel Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior. Whenever he’s not scribing, Eric records punk rock and presses it to vinyl.

"Original and unfailingly entertaining from first page to last, Static by Eric Laster is deftly crafted and highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as school and community library YA fiction collections."
— Midwest Book Review

"Unusual and unpredictable….The posthumous bond formed between the brothers is touching and the mystery a genuine surprise." — Kirkus Reviews

"Eric Laster has a way of writing that cuts straight to the heart....Each of the ...more

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Average rating: 3.6 · 134 ratings · 59 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Static 3.29 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveryor, World Savior by Eric Laster (Goodreads Author), Max Graenitz (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Erasmus Twiddle: Grmkville's Famous & Talented Not-Detective 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Epiphany Fall/Winter 2018 by Sam Pink (Goodreads Author), Christopher Kang (Goodreads Author), David Albahari 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior by Eric Laster (Goodreads Author), Max Graenitz (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Carpet: An Asian American Story by Loretta Taam, Eric Laster (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Epiphany publishes Laster story “Me, Undead”

Happy to announce that the Fall/Winter issue of New York journal Epiphany features my short story, “Me, Undead.” Find the latest issue in bookstores or [...]

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“The princess turns to him, serious. 'You are the one my great-grandfather spoke of: a denizen of Earth wearing a dirty apron who falls down a shaft and lands in sticky goo to lead the Brundeedle race out of Woe Time.':”
― Eric Laster, Welfy Q. Deederhoth Meat Purveyor World Savior

tags: eric-laster, humor, sci-fi, welfy-q

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“...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

tags: fiction, inspirational, literature, wisdom

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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

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“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mark of cruelty.”
― James Baldwin

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“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
― Charles Nodier

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