Category: The Love We Share Without Knowing
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Out in the world
Happy Birthday, new book. It’s been a long time now that I’ve been home from Japan, but when I dip my head back into the pages of this book that I wrote there, it all comes back again. I’ve heard it noted in the acknowledgements pages of many books, as well as in passing conversation,…
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Party, party, party
Dear All You Youngstowners and those who will be hereabouts come this weekend, This Saturday will be one big party downtown. Why? Because I’m throwing a party for the release of my new book, which comes out tomorrow, The Love We Share Without Knowing. There will be food (cross-cultural selections, since the book is…
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In the news
I was interviewed by one of the local newspapers the other day. It was on the phone, though, so apparently when I was using the word “communal” and “communality” the reporter was hearing “commonality” which is fine, because there is that shared-ness in the word “commonality” that works just fine for the meaning I was…
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Mail from Japan
My Japanese mom sent this picture to me today. Apparently the new book has arrived at her doorstep earlier than it has here. I love seeing this photo of the book, in Japan now, where I wrote it.
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Starred review in Booklist
First starred review ever. Happy!
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Small changes
Some actual work to this site got done this weekend, partly due to the fact that the Toshiba laptop I’d been working on for four years finally went to laptop heaven, and I finally went out immediately after and bought myself the MacBook I’d been wanting to get for a while now. So in the…
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First Review
Looks like the first review is in on The Love We Share Without Knowing, this one from Publishers Weekly. I’ll be posting these, for better or worse (ala Jeff Ford), as they come in. I’m pretty pleased with this one. The Love We Share Without Knowing Christopher Barzak. Bantam, $12 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-38564-9 Barzak’s…
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Cover
Over at Amazon.com, you can now see a glimpse of the cover for my next book, The Love We Share Without Knowing. Just in case anyone was wondering what it looks like! 🙂
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Writing and publishing update
It seems like ages since I gave a writing (or publishing?) report, but here it is. In August my short story “The 24 Hour Brother” will appear in the new issue of Bantam Spectra Pulse. At the end of November, my second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing will be released by Bantam Books…
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Things I’ve been doing lately
1. Copyediting the final manuscript for The Love We Share Without Knowing. 2. Getting a local writer’s group up and running. 3. Getting a local book club up and running at the Oakland Center for the Arts. (Want to join? E-mail me!) 4. Working out again, finally! 5. Getting a story ready to submit to…