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message 1: by Vincent (new)

Vincent Lowry This folder is for readers and writers of literary fiction.

Welcome! Please post your books or leave a comment!


message 2: by D.E. (new)

D.E. Sievers Hi y'all! I just joined this group. My most recent novel is called "The Trees in Winter" and you can read about it at the links below. Hope you'll check it out and see if it's something that appeals to you. I have also posted numerous Lit-Vids of myself doing selected readings, on Goodreads and on my blog. Check 'em out! And keep on writing! (and reading!) THANKS!

On Amazon:

http://tinyurl.com/276ljju

Or Barnes and Noble:

http://tinyurl.com/286r7d5

D.E. Sievers' Blog:

http://desievers.blogspot.com/

On Goodreads:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Author Page on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003KQPGMS


message 3: by Vincent (new)

Vincent Lowry The Trees in Winter by D.E. Sievers
The Trees in Winter

Hi D.E.--this will help people see the cover, and it will also include it to the right in the books mentioned in this folder.


message 4: by D.E. (new)

D.E. Sievers Thank you! Just this minute I was trying to figure out how to do that. Then I saw your post. How do you do it, anyway?


message 6: by Lily (new)

Lily Vagabond I'm an author of dark fiction, and I write nothing but Literary Fiction in Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Human Drama genres.

Eden Fell
Eden Fell by Lily - Author of Dark Fiction
Eden Fell

Summary: Watch Eden's journey as an abstract painter through her companions the Snake and the Rhinoceros, to the end of the world.

Reviews: http://www.lilyauthor.com/reviews.htm

http://www.lilyauthor.com/edenfell.htm

Lily - Author of Dark Fiction


message 7: by Lily (new)

Lily Vagabond D.E. wrote: "Thank you! Just this minute I was trying to figure out how to do that. Then I saw your post. How do you do it, anyway?"

Hi D.E., to add a photo or link of a book on Good Reads, click on add book/author on top of the message box. Search and add :)


message 8: by M. (new)

M. Clifford Hi everyone! One of my novels fits best into this category so I wanted to post it here. It's called The Book.

It's a dystopian story about a future that looks very much like ours except for one major difference. The world has gone paperless and all books are read on a universal e-reader called The Book. The government has been secretly censoring and editing the content of all books and quickly disposes of anyone who finds out what they're up to. The story is about a group of people discovering this deception and attempting to change their world and save the last remaining books on the planet.

The Book by M. Clifford
The Book


message 9: by Vincent (new)

Vincent Lowry That's an interesting concept, M.

:)


message 10: by Melissa (last edited Oct 28, 2010 06:16PM) (new)

Melissa Foster Howdy readers and authors! I'm the author of Megan's Way, and I love to chat with readers! My second novel, Chasing Amanda, is awaiting publication.

Thanks for checking it out!

AMAZON:
http://www.amazon.com/Megans-Way-Meli...


Megan's Way by Melissa Foster

Melissa


message 11: by Karen (new)

Karen Hi,

I'm Karen, and my novel, A Whisper To A Scream, is available in the Kindle store and is coming to paperback in early 2011. Here's a quick synopsis.

When Annie, recently diagnosed with unexplained infertility, and Sarah, a stay-at-home mom, meet through a Classics Book Club, each thinks the other one's life is so much better than her own. But is the grass truly greener on the other side of the fence?

Please stop by my website for a sample.

http://www.karenberner.com

Thanks!


message 12: by Melinda (new)

Melinda Clayton Hi all, my novel Appalachian Justice has been tagged as both literary fiction and historical fiction - both genres I love and was thrilled to be included in. Feel free to stop by my Goodreads blog for an excerpt!

Melinda Clayton

Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton


message 13: by Bert (new)

Bert Murray Vincent wrote: "This folder is for readers and writers of literary fiction.

Welcome! Please post your books or leave a comment!"


Vincent wrote: "This folder is for readers and writers of literary fiction.

Welcome! Please post your books or leave a comment!"



message 14: by Bert (last edited Jan 22, 2011 08:22PM) (new)

Bert Murray Hi everyone! I am Goodreads author Bert Murray and I would like to suggest Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled. It is my new coming of age novel about the Beatles, first love and betrayal. It is $2.99 on Amazon's kindle store. The paperback will be available on Amazon in February.

http://www.colinprestonrockedandrolle...

Meet Colin Preston.
19 years old and a student at Elerby University in upstate New York.
He drinks too much.
Lives for the Beatles, John Lennon and classic rock.
Falls for the most beautiful sophomore on campus.
His life is about to change forever.
Funny. Moving. Honest. Raw.
An entertaining coming of age novel about friendship, music, first love and betrayal.

From Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled:

How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far? A band could become more important than your family or your friends. John, Paul, George and Ringo spoke to me. Jasmine would see when she'd been with me a little longer. She'd understand me completely. I had to give her time.

Praise For Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled:

"Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled is a novel that does a wonderful job of capturing the voices and lives of a certain time and place. The use of music- both music contemporary to the characters and Colin's beloved Beatles (already, of course, at the time of the novel, classic)- works especially well. Instead of using words, Colin, when in the grip of a strong emotion, puts on an appropriate song. Overall, the compactness of the story and the ease with which one identifies with Colin and his situation create an inevitability about the events that has an almost tragic quality as well as a strong structure. I felt I experienced it all with Colin, and it was a pleasure to read."

- Meredith Sue Willis, author of Ten Strategies to Start Your Novel and Out of the Mountains

"Bert Murray has produced a novel that is simultaneously absorbing, moving and funny - a character-driven page-turner that captures lightning in a bottle, and preserves a moment in time for eternity. I found the Beatles (and especially John Lennon) material compelling on several levels - as a fan, yes, but more so as a symbol of a generation gap, a figure for a grasping adolescent (or adult) to use when trying to figure things out, and as a touchstone - something every character and situation can be informed by."

- John Altman, author of The Watchmen and A Gathering Of Spies


message 15: by Robert (new)

Robert Morrow Hello. I'm Robert Morrow, author of Ringing True, a novel of the adventures of a group of Seattle twenty-somethings who decide to address the sorry state of the human race by launching a new for-profit religion via cyberspace.

You can read a synopsis on my author page, on the website (http://www.ringingtrue.com) or see a mini-movie synopsis on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqDwB-...

The book is available in all three versions on Amazon and Barnes & Noble; via ebook on Borders; in a couple of renditions on Powell's; and on Google Books.

Thanks to all and good luck to all the authors!


message 16: by Terri (new)

Terri R Saw the video, it is fantastic. Really tells a pictorial story of the book. WOW!


message 17: by Christa (new)

Christa Hi everyone,
This past year, I published my debut novel "Love of a Stonemason." It is a story about the struggle of two artists with their past, their family, their creativity, and their love for each other. It takes the reader on a journey full of sights, smells, tastes, and sounds from the south of Switzerland to Italy and the Peruvian Andes.

Here is the blurb: Karla Bocelli's early life is marred by death. At five years of age, she loses her mother in a car crash in Switzerland. Her father lives at the other end of the world and her aunt and guardian passed away the year before. Now, at age twenty-four, the young painter almost gets hit by a speeding car. As if this wasn’t fateful enough, the driver turns out to be a carver of tombstones. Andreas, however, is anything but morbid. Quick-tempered and intense, he exudes a rough-and-tumble energy. After an initial stormy encounter, Karla comes to see in Andreas the “rock in her life,” the perfect antidote to her fears of abandonment. Andreas, however, wrestles with his own ghosts of the past. Together, the two artists must confront the demons that haunt them.

Free sample chapters at My Website

Some information about me and links to a few great reviews and interviews at My Website

The book is available as ebook and paperback at
Amazon

In different ebook versions (Sony, Nook) at Smashwords

Check it out and Happy Reading!
Christa


message 18: by Susan (last edited Feb 18, 2011 03:23AM) (new)

Susan Roebuck I'm so happy. My novel Perfect Score is reclassified as "light literary" genre. It's getting great reviews. My Website

Perfect Score by Susan Roebuck


message 19: by Trevor (new)

Trevor Hallam GOD COMPLEX
Kindle now available!

http://www.amazon.com/God-Complex-Tre...


message 20: by Emily (new)

Emily Lear Hi everyone, my name is Emily Lear and my book Ladies of Market Street is available on Amazon.com. I would love to share it with all of you.

Ladies of Market StreetEmily Lear

Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HO5LPE?t...

Within my pages you will find a sisterhood like no other. I have hidden my soiled doves under the facade of a New York City real-estate agency. Day and night they exploit their access to the vacant apartments throughout the city and make Gentleman’s fantasy’s come true. Veronica is their Madam and they are her family. She will give her life for them and they will do the same for each other.

My website: http://whitwriter.webs.com/


message 21: by [deleted user] (new)

Regolith is about the largest asteroid strike in 65 million years.

Regolith by Brent Reilly


message 22: by Katrina (last edited May 15, 2011 03:40PM) (new)

Katrina Williams Hi,
My name is Katrina Parker Williams, and I have recently published a short story collection of historical fiction titled Trouble Down South and Other Stories. I am glad to be a part of this group. Thanks for the invite.

Trouble Down South and Other Stories by Katrina Parker Williams

Enslavement, murder, abuse, illness: there’s real trouble for the characters in Trouble Down South and Other Stories. The short stories take the reader on a journey to the past through a collection of interestingly crafted pieces of flawed humanness, social injustice, and redemption, and even humor.

The short story collection of historical fiction chronicles events spanning more than 150 years and addresses a wide range of experiences from African-American perspectives. The stories are set in the South amid a changing landscape in which the characters are forced to wrestle with the social issues surrounding Native Americans, slavery, racism, Prohibition, World War I, the Korean War, Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, health, religion, mental illness, and education.


message 23: by Duane (new)

Duane Simolke The Acorn Stories: West Texas Tales. "I found this book to be a perfect vacation companion," says A. Chandler, the #1 Amazon.Com Reviewer. “A lush tangle of small-town life branches out in this engrossing collection of short stories.” -Kirkus. $3 US for eBook. http://duanesimolke.blogspot.com/2009...

The Acorn Gathering. 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. Fiction by Duane Simolke, Jan Chandler, Huda Orfali, Timothy Morris Taylor, Shawna R. Van Arum, and Bill Wetzel. Edited by Duane Simolke. Available as a free eBook, but all royalties from the paperback edition go to the fight against cancer! http://tagreviews.blogspot.com/


message 24: by Michael (last edited May 07, 2011 06:51PM) (new)

Michael Vorhis Thank you Vincent.

My most recent title:

ARCHANGEL by Michael Vorhis ARCHANGEL by Michael Vorhis

The shame of terrible deeds past can drive a man to self contempt. So it is with Mick Calahan, anonymous, disconsolate, shielding the world from himself in priest's robes. But a bewildering assignment and the desperate trust of a young woman threaten to make him choose between staying buried and unleashing the past again. Drawn into Gabriella's taut, troubled paradise, Mick harbors a dark secret--that his signature quality is not virtue. And the woman knows her own deliverance will drive this mysterious man to oppose evil by becoming it.


(The eBook is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, the Apple iBookstore, the Sony Reader store, the Smashwords store, the Diesel eBookstore, and elsewhere. Search on ARCHANGEL and Vorhis.)

(And note that it's not a dogma-pusher, nor is it another of the many paranormal spirit-world-entity fantasy action things. I'd consider changing the title to avoid confusion with those except that the title is so perfect for the story, and together with the tale accomplishes what I set out to do.)


message 25: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca Burke My new title is for both YA readers and those adults who enjoy quality YA fiction. Some of its themes include poverty, mother-daughter relationships, coming of age, and resilience.

When I Am Singing to You by Rebecca Burke (Literature & Fiction)

Description: Fourteen-year-old Carmen Delgada, the daughter of migrant workers, ends up living at the YWCA after her jealous mother kicks her out of the house. When Carmen learns that her new friend Hazel is pregnant, she vows to help her—a decision that results in tragedy.


message 26: by Leonard (new)

Leonard I am Leonard Seet, literary fiction writer, and has posted a short story, The Accident, here on Goodreads (link below). Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...


message 27: by Abby (new)

Abby Hello group! As a new member, I'd just like to introduce myself. I've just completed my first novel, a work of literary fiction entitled, Letters In Cardboard Boxes. Letters focuses on the loss of a loved one to dementia and follows the quirky, loving relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter.

In order to enhance the reader experience, I will be releasing Letters chapter by chapter beginning in September on the website below alongside an ongoing discussion forum that will accompany each chapter:

www.abbyslovin.com

I'm looking for a few good readers who might be interested in reading an advanced copy and supplying a review of the novel before the September release.

Please let me know if anyone is interested!

Thank you.
Abby Slovin


message 28: by Liz (new)

Liz Mourant M. wrote: "Hi everyone! One of my novels fits best into this category so I wanted to post it here. It's called The Book.

It's a dystopian story about a future that looks very much like our..."


I read excerpts at Amazon and I have bought it. Tight interesting prose and a great a storyline but I love dystopian tales. Steampunk has been a recent favourite genre. Greatly prescient considering our ebooks (which I bought this as, a nice cheap kindle price)...love it so far, good luck!

I've a friend who self-published actually, and her book is outstanding so I realize a lot of the crap served up by publishing houses nowadays is just feeder-system offal. A LOT!

Cheers, Liz


message 29: by James (new)

James Birch Hello all! Am new to goodreads. looking for recommendations on indie authors to check out. Am going to be publishing a book some time soon - but right now am interested in just meeting people, seeing what they read, and getting a better sense on the indie community.

My interests would be in the ballpark of satire, dark humor, coming of age, etc.


message 30: by Srini (new)

Srini Hi Folks, Hello from Bangalore. It is terrific to be part of this group, and to have the chance to introduce myself. I just joined Goodreads as an author, and have promptly signed up! Look forward to staying connected with readers through Goodreads and this group, and perhaps posting a message or two about my books on here once I get settled in here. In the meanwhile, please feel free to check out my profile here, and I'd love a friend invite from any of the readers. Have a terrific day.

Srini


message 31: by Francisco (last edited Sep 05, 2011 02:49AM) (new)

Francisco Seguin Hello Community,

Wonderful to be a part of it. Check out my Goodreads author profile:
Francisco Antonio Seguin

My debut novel AV EROTICA is available now in paperback and Kindle edition at Amazon US:
http://www.amazon.com/AV-Erotica-Fran...

Amazon UK (Kindle only): http://www.amazon.co.uk/AV-Erotica-eb...

Amazon DE (Kindle only): http://www.amazon.de/AV-Erotica-ebook...

and Createspace e-store (Paperback only): https://www.createspace.com/3446202

Praise for AV EROTICA:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced with turns to keep you guessing, March 4, 2011

Fast paced action making it really hard to put the book down, with turns in the storyline that keeps you guessing and on your toes.

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome story with laods of action and great atmosphere., December 6, 2010

This book sets off at an amazing pace. While the action sections of the book are brilliant the main attraction I found where the ideas involved. The narrative is fast paced and exciting and never tries to dumb itself down for the masses. I love the way music is mentioned to really help build atmospere and to give you a more indepth feel for the story. The characters are real and feel like the type of people you have seen living on the edge but never had a chance to fit in to regular work-a-day society.

It's sexy, exciting, thought provoking and hard to put down.

In all if I was to compare it to other books I would say it is a bit like Fight club or even something Phillip K. Dick would write if he was still around to do a modern day tale.

A great read!

"When a small group of kamikaze filmmakers with a beef against the System, place their lives on the line to capture a world out of balance; the scream of their generation will rip through the highways in one last high-speed assault on the senses, destined to ignite the masses and send society into meltdown at over 150 miles per hour. AV Erotica - when the only meaning left is the one that costs you EVERYTHING, the world must be forced to SEE."

Visit me at: http://underthehum.wordpress.com/ and let's be friends http://www.facebook.com/FASeguin

Looking forward to your success. Drop me a line sometime.

Cheers
Francisco


message 32: by Mari (last edited Oct 21, 2011 11:14AM) (new)

Mari Mann Parisian by Heart by Mari Mann

Hi, my name is Mari Mann and I would like to introduce myself to this group of literary fiction writers. Besides reading and writing, which are my favorite two things to do, I also like traveling, painting, growing natural foods and yoga. We live in an old farmhouse that has plenty of surrounding woods and fields so we get a lot of wildlife, like deer, raccoons, and the occasional bobcat or coyote. I started writing seriously about 3-4 years ago, and my first novel, Parisian by Heart, was chosen as a quarter-finalist in Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award. Here's a synopsis:
"A longing for Paris, France, leads a budding writer into her past lives to discover the genesis of this desire. Her guides on this journey include the famous French writer Marcel Proust, author of In Search of Lost Time and his companion Celeste, novelist Colette, the inimitable Charles Dickens, tortured artist Vincent van Gogh and a demon named Samael. She will visit Versailles at the time of the French Revolution, ride in a horse-drawn carriage down the Champs-Elysees at the height of the glittering Belle Epoch, watch van Gogh paint a masterpiece under the hot sun of Arles and finally, travel to the Paris of today. Like a precious artifact long buried, the past is uncovered and its influence on the present is unearthed through this journey of discovery and revelation."
I'm currently working on my second novel which is set in the Southwest and is loosely based on my experiences participating in an archaeological dig.

Kindle version just became available:
http://www.amazon.com/Parisian-by-Hea...


message 33: by Peter (new)

Peter Murphy Vincent wrote: "This folder is for readers and writers of literary fiction.

Welcome! Please post your books or leave a comment!"


Lagan Love
Hi, I'm Peter Murphy, author of Lagan Love and it's great to meet you all.


message 34: by Morgan (new)

Morgan Nyberg Since Tomorrow by Morgan Nyberg
Hello everybody. I'm just getting my feet wet on Goodreads. I'll be in the Literary group as well as the YA (the print version of my kids' novel "Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army" won the Canadian Governor-General's award many years ago - I've just republished it as an indie ebook) The cover image above is from "Since Tomorrow": life & death in Vancouver 40 years after a global pandemic and economic collapse. It's available in digital form only at http://goo.gl/3zty3 Looking forward to connecting with other authors and readers of non-genre fiction.


message 35: by Morgan (new)

Morgan Nyberg Forgot to introduce myself. I'm Morgan Nyberg, battle-scarred veteran of the literary artist's life, author of "Since Tomorrow" and other novels. You can sample my stuff on my amazon page: http://goo.gl/3zty3


message 36: by Mary (new)

Mary Moore This looks like a great group - just joined today. Please take a look at my novel, SLEEPING WITH PATTY HEARST. The story is about a young girl, Lily Stokes, who searches for her sister with the help of her mother's boyfriend, a freewheeling man who likes Lily a little too much. This is an edgy coming-of-age story -- one recent reader told me she liked it more than THE HELP (!!), and another said the characters are "addictive." www.sleepingwithpattyhearst.com and http://amzn.to/rpEA7Q.


message 37: by Holly (new)

Holly My Name Is Joe by Stefan Bourque
My Name Is Joe by Stefan Bourque

In what has been called a masterpiece of emotion, Stefan Bourque's "My Name Is Joe" has been celebrated by readers around the world as an inspiring tale and a reminder of the great capacity for human kindness.

Joe, a quiet and introspective loner has discovered he will soon cease to exist due to an aggressive, incurable cancer. Lonesome in his final days and after long contemplation he decides to do something that he has never thought to do before--Joe decides to reach out to his fellow man in an effort to teach others the valuable lesson he is learning before it is too late.

With a single act of kindness Joe inadvertantly pulls toward him a young, single mother who carries her own deep-seated guilt for the death of her mother.

Can these two wayward souls find the redemption that they each so desperately need before time and death separate them? This is a tale of compassion, redemption and the deliverance that can only be achieved through the courage and love that human beings possess but too infrequently share.

"Powerful, unflinching, courageous and just in time!" -- Amanda Grace White

What readers are saying:

"Restored my faith in the potential for human kindness."

"... an emotional book, you'll likely be left with a renewed appreciation for life."

"I absolutely loved this book. Stefan Bourque has a way of romancing his readers with his fluid, almost poetic prose and turns of phrase."

"My name is Eryk and I just made a new friend whose name is Joe."

"... it definitely asks the hard questions."

"Bourque has written a beautiful book with My Name Is Joe."

Available now on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/MyNameIsJoe


message 38: by Mary (new)

Mary Moore Robert wrote: "Hello. I'm Robert Morrow, author of Ringing True, a novel of the adventures of a group of Seattle twenty-somethings who decide to address the sorry state of the human race by launching a new for-pr..."

Love the video synopsis - great job.


message 39: by Tina (new)

Tina Boscha (This is cross-posted under Historical Fiction, btw.)

Hello all! I'm thrilled to post information about my novel, River in the Sea. The ebook version is available for 2.99 and the paperback is 12.99. The novel has been out just over a month and has received some really nice reviews, and I'd be thrilled if you would check it out.

Cover Photo

Here's the official "blurb":
At fifteen, Leen De Graaf likes everything she shouldn’t: smoking cigarettes, wearing red lipstick, driving illegally, and working in the fields. It seems the only thing she shares with her fellow Dutchmen is a fear of the German soldiers stationed nearby and a frantic wish for the war to end. When a soldier’s dog runs in front of Leen’s truck, her split decision sets off a storm of events that pitches her family against the German forces when they are most desperate – and fierce. Leen tries to hold her family together, but despite her efforts, bit by bit everything falls apart, and just when Leen experiences a horrific loss, she must make a decision that could forever brand her a traitor, yet finally allow her to live as her heart desires. Inspired by the life of the author’s mother, River in the Sea is a powerful and moving account of one girl reaching adulthood when everything she believes about family, friendship, and loyalty is questioned by war.

“Tina Boscha’s prose is exemplary; her protagonist in River in the Sea is highly sympathetic; and her setting of Friesland, Netherlands, is alive with details. I fell in love with her tender gaze at the world she creates.”
-Samrat Upadhyay, author of The Guru of Love

About the Author:
Tina Boscha lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley with her husband and stepdaughters along with two nutty boxers and two silly black cats. She is an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. For her next novel, she is working on a good old-fashioned ghost story.

Let me know if you end up picking it up - I'd love to chat about it!


message 40: by Sheila (last edited Oct 12, 2011 03:50PM) (new)

Sheila Tina wrote: "(This is cross-posted under Historical Fiction, btw.)

Hello all! I'm thrilled to post information about my novel, River in the Sea. The ebook version is available for 2.99 and the paperback is 12..."


Hi, Tina. I was interested to see that you cross-posted in Historical Fiction, as I've got a new book coming out next month that has been categorized as both "literary" and "mystery".
The Girl in the Box by Sheila Dalton and I'm finding the cross-genre thing sometimes throws people, including my publicist.
Have you experienced similar problems yourself? Perhaps because you are more established as a literary author, this does not apply.
Your book looks fascinating, by the way.
Sheila


message 41: by Tina (new)

Tina Boscha Hi Sheila! Thanks for your comment. I will def. check out your book.

I can't really say if I'm encountering problems yet. It's hard to describe it, but as I'm going this alone, I have a bit more leeway than if I was working with a publicist. It does feel weird at times to say "historical/literary/coming-of-age" but honestly, that's the best way for me to describe it.

I actually think literary mystery can work well for you - most folks out there like genre fiction (at least that's my impression) and so attaching your book to mystery can gain you more readers. I hope so anyway. :-)


message 42: by Sheila (new)

Sheila Tina wrote: "Hi Sheila! Thanks for your comment. I will def. check out your book.

I can't really say if I'm encountering problems yet. It's hard to describe it, but as I'm going this alone, I have a bit more l..."


Thanks, Tina. I definitely learn a lot from people on here. I think the cross-genre thing might only be a problem because publishers make it so. However, it seems to be causing them some difficulty in knowing what awards to enter it for. And the fact that it will be labelled "mystery" by some will mean, I'm afraid, that literary juries will not take it seriously.


message 43: by Tina (new)

Tina Boscha That's a good point. In a way you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I'm trying to take the mindset that the book will find its right audience (and also, to market the hell out of it in the meantime). Wish I had a better answer for you - perhaps, though, you can frame it differently depending on the situation? That's probably more difficult, though, when you have execs and press people to work with. (Which, though, is wonderful in and of itself!)


message 44: by Sheila (new)

Sheila Tina wrote: "That's a good point. In a way you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I'm trying to take the mindset that the book will find its right audience (and also, to market the hell out of it in the..."

Don't worry about not having all "the answers". It's just good to discuss it here with you. In your case at least there is more of a history of historical fiction being taken seriously as also literary - viz., Wolf Hall.
I'm sure it will all work out in the long run, but I'm afraid I don't trust that the publisher is really behind my book as a contender for prizes. And as that's one of the things a publisher is supposed to be good for, that's a disappointment.


message 45: by [deleted user] (new)

Hi, I'm Malla Duncan. If you like a more literary thriller - I would perhaps class my contemporary psychological thriller 'Deep As Bone' in that category. Set in London but with flashbacks to an upbringing in the Karoo in South Africa, you will follow the story of Ilsa Joubert, nanny in the Henshaw household. When Ilsa suspects murder, she sets out to uncover the truth. Unfortunately, justice is not top of her agenda - and ultimately she traps herself in her own carefully laid plan.

Deep As Bone


message 46: by David (new)

David Fleming The thing I like most about being an author is the long and interesting journey it provides. I’ve been actively pursuing publication for ten years. Of course, that doesn’t count the high school and college courses.

My first publication came in college with an op-ed piece for the Iowa State Daily. From there I began submitting to magazines and attending conferences in Indianapolis and New York City. I became an active member in the online critique forum at Zoetrope.com and eventually helped to moderate a face-to-face group in Austin. From the Austin affiliation, I was directed to the magazine in which my first short story appeared. Soon after, I placed a science fiction short story in an anthology collection.

After a few near misses with partial and full submissions to agents, the Kindle user-base exploded and I decided to put my debut novel, Growing up Wired , on Amazon.

Goodreads Author Page

David


message 47: by Jeanette (new)

Jeanette Hornby Hi everyone, My first novel is available in print and as an ebook. Heart's Promise

http://www.jeanettehornby.com.au/


message 48: by Lee (new)

Lee Holz Just published: my third novel and the first book of The Sonnet Trilogy. Set largely in Switzerland between 1948 and 1955, it is a coming of age and love story complicated by family ties, gender stereotypes and changing attitudes toward sex.

Impediments
Impediments (Sonnet Trilogy, #1) by Lee Holz


message 49: by [deleted user] (new)

Hello,

Not sure if 2 of my novels qualify as Literary fiction, people say they do, but I never thought of them as such. Vissi d'arte is about students at an opera school learning singing, drama and movement. Their passion for opera unites them. Their love affairs, ambition and political views divide them.
Vissi d'arte by Joanna Stephen-Ward


message 50: by Sheila (new)

Sheila Joanna wrote: "Hello,

Not sure if 2 of my novels qualify as Literary fiction, people say they do, but I never thought of them as such. Vissi d'arte is about students at an opera school learning s..."


Hi, Joanna. Your book sounds interesting. Do you have a background in music or opera?


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