Big thank you to Powell's Books for featuring Who Killed One the Gun? on their "Cozy Staff Favorites" list on their "Cozy Fall Reads" page. The book is still preorder until my book launch at Powell's downtown on Tuesday (join me?). Check out the full list: www.powells.com/list/cozy-bo...
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Epic and Lovely and Every Anxious Wave are such different books and, to me, equally wonderful. You can learn more about her books and other writings at her website here... modaviau.com
Her newest, Epic and Lovely, is gorgeous and dark and intense and tender and wise. Yes, very dark, and yes, very funny - a great combination - and unputdownable... annieblooms.com/book/9781959...
The next person I’d like to thank for blurbing my book is the amazing Mo Daviau. Her novel Every Anxious Wave is my all-time favorite time-travel book. Its highly imaginative premise opens into a surprising, deep, human story full of Mo’s brilliant, dry humor... annieblooms.com/book/9781959...
I was so honored by his blurb for my book. Here it is in full: “You turn the page like opening the door in a fun house. You never know what’s on the other side, but you know it was not what you expected. Who Killed One the Gun? manages to be fun yet mysterious. Gritty and yet, somehow, spiritual.”
Another favorite recentish work is his book Grimm and Grimmer, which retells some of the well-known and not-well-known Grimm’s fairytales with equal parts respect and deadpan whimsy....
He did the world a favor when he slid into the comic book genre, creating some of the most clever and funny and at the same time political and human stuff out there. Check out Vanishing Point, which puts me in mind of a modern comic book version of some of my favorite sci-fi old-time radio shows.
The story he wrote for the anthology I edited, City of Weird, a prehistoric epistolary mini odyssey titled “Letters to the Oregonian in the Year 30,000 BC,” is a perfect gem of Mark Russell humor and sensibility....
The next person I’d like to thank for blurbing my book is Mark Russell. I’ve been a huge fan of Mark’s work since his hilarious yet still reverent sendup of the Bible, God is Disappointed in You. I love his dry, sharp, but gentle wit....
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With his wife, he is also producing a live staged radio performance, "Scary Home Companion," a horror-themed send-up of A Prairie Home Companion, set in Lake Soul Begone (hee hee!). That will be live at Victoria Belle Mansion on October 30. www.facebook.com/events/22493...
He produces Dungeons & Damsels, a fantasy adventure audio drama featuring a female-heavy cast of main characters in stand-alone stories (currently in its fifth season). creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
David has designed and performed sound effects for Willamette Radio Workshop, Tesla City Stories, Live Wire, and loads of other theater companies. Here's a cool article about him and his craft in The Columbian... www.columbian.com/news/2016/ma...
For my book launch at Powell's on October 7, I'll have foley artist David Ian accompanying my reading, and I'm so excited. A foley artist is someone who creates sound effects, and it was a big component of the production of old-time radio, which is the lens through which my novel is told...
...What is staged on the page is a storytelling field that reminds us that we are all always already out of time, and that recreating stories is what saves us. As intellectually stunning as it is creatively playful. A genre and gender-bending brilliant beat of a book.”
Her lovely blurb (in 2 parts): “Gigi Little just gave noir mouth-to-mouth. Who Killed One the Gun? resuscitates what was last best about old school radio noir with a spectacular post-genre kick. Characters are numbers, numbers lose their linearity, and time itself is laid bare as an echo chamber...
