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Mike Karpa

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Here's my standard bio: Mike’s fiction, memoir and nonfiction can be found in Tin House, Foglifter, Tahoma Literary Review, Oyster River Pages and other magazines. He is the author of Criminals (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GRTWYBF), a literary thriller that was selected for Best Books of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews (starred review), the upbeat scifi romance Red Dot (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GR7PH2B) and contemporary social comedy The Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BM6L7D73), winner of Best LGBTQ novel at the San Francisco Book Festival! He lives with his husband and dog in San Francisco.

Here's what's new: I am getting into being a publisher not just of my work but of others. It's hard, but fun! And the press's f
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Average rating: 4.26 · 62 ratings · 23 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Red Dot

4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions
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“Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.”
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