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Duane’s 2025 Year in Books
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Duane Simolke
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in New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States
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The Acorn Stories in The Lone Star Literary Life Magazine
✨ I’m featured in the March issue of The Lone Star Literary Life Magazine! This month’s theme is HOPE. Read it here: https://lonestar-lit.com/march-2026/ @LoneStarLit#TexasAuthors #AuthorLife #BookCommunity #LoneStarLiteraryLife From their review of The Acorn Stories: “People weave into and out of each other’s stories, connected in ways you might not expect.”“At its core, this book is
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The Acorn Stories
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Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure
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Sons of Taldra
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Now That We’re Grown
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Taldra: Science Fiction Adventures
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Fat Diary
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The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure
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Holding Me Together
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1999
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Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio
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1999
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Ali Duggan
is finished with Kingdom of Claw: I swear. The closer I get to finishing this book, the more pages I somehow have left?!?
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I previously reviewed the J. Scott Coatsworth story “The Emp Test,” after reading it as a separate eBook. This collection includes “The Emp Test” and other stories set on Coatsworth’s fictional world of Tharassas. As in real life, the people of Tharas ...more |
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“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
“In the labyrinth of love and lies, even the perfect can falter. It's our courage, resilience, and the extraordinary lengths we go for love that define us. For in the face of deception, betrayal, and danger, it's not the games we play but the hearts we heal that truly matter.”
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Thanks! My readers at GoodReads seem interested in Degranon, with 60 of them adding it to their To Read list.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...
Now one of them might win a copy!
Hi Duane!! Just wanted to let you know that your sci fi adventure DEGRANON is the www.AuthorIsland.com Book of the Day today!!
Thanks for offering up a copy to one of our lucky readers today!
Now available: THE ACORN STORIES - Duane Simolke's award-winning tales transform a fictional West Texas town into a tapestry of human experiences - check it out at www.DuaneSimolke.blogspot.com
Readers! Last day to get your name in the hat for Duane Simolke's sci fi adventure DEGRANON - check it out www.AuthorIslandTikiHut.blogspot.com !
Happy Monday Duane!!Thanks so much for being our special guest blogger this week - and thanks for offering up a copy of DEGRANON for one of our lucky readers this week!
This week at www.AuthorIslandTikiHut.blogspot.com , we welcome author Duane Simolke to the Tiki Hut to talk about his science fiction novel DEGRANON: A Science Fiction Adventure.
Majoring in English, Duane Simolke received degrees from Belmont University (B.A., 1989), Hardin-Simmons University (M.A., 1991), and Texas Tech University (Ph.D., 1996). His doctoral dissertation was on Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. StoneWall Society gave Pride in the Arts literary awards to The Acorn Stories, Degranon, and Holding Me Together. AllBooks Reviews gave The Return of Innocence a Reviewers Choice Award.
Simolke also edited and co-wrote a fundraiser, The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer.
Learn more at www.duanesimolke.blogspot.com
WIN - Leave Duane a comment or question this week at the Authorisland Tiki Hut and your name goes in the hat for a free ebook of DEGRANON.
Hi Duane!!AuthorIsland.com is celebrating your anthlogy - THE ACORN GATHERING today - what a great cause!
Thank you for putting this together.
Anthology Edited By Duane Simolke Benefits American Cancer Society
The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer.
Author and editor Duane Simolke presents an unusual fiction collection. From a scandal-rocked town in West Texas to the Blackfeet Indian reservation in Montana, these short stories take readers to surprising places in America and the human heart!
Join the fight against cancer by purchasing this fundraiser by authors Jan Chandler, Huda Orfali, Duane Simolke, Timothy Morris Taylor, Shawna R. Van Arum, and Bill Wetzel. All author and editor royalties go to the American Cancer Society!
These stories range from gritty and controversial to gentle and touching. Starting with the West Texas setting from Duane Simolke's collection The Acorn Stories, this new anthology takes readers across several landscapes, during times of trouble, change, hope, and triumph. Edited by Duane Simolke.
Learn more at www.DuaneSimolke.blogspot.com
Oye! Duane, thanks for the add. Take care...Leaundra
Hi Duane!!!Welcome to AuthorIsland.com - so glad to have you with us and to celebrate we're throwing you a Cyber Launch Party today for your fantasy adventure THE RETURN OF INNOCENCE over at www.CyberLaunchParty.blogspot.com!
Best of luck with the book and thanks so much for offering up a copy of it as a prize today!
Duane,
http://DuaneSimolke.Com