The Quiet, and Then More

The cycle seems predictable: the reviews come, if we're lucky, in the month or two after the book is released, and tail off fairly quickly thereafter, with maybe a few here and there in the subsequent six months. And that's pretty much your load, shot. But every so often, months and months later, a really nice review comes out to give the book one more good goosing. This time it was John Domini giving All Over all kinds of good juju in the latest issue of American Book Review.

February 11, 2009, 9:08 a.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, Review, Short Stories

18th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction

I've been submitting stories to this contest on and off for the past decade, and to its sponsor, The Missouri Review, for even longer than that.

No dice.

Until this year.

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February 3, 2009, 6:08 p.m.Categories: China, Litmags, Short Stories