HOPEFUL READING IN THE DEAD OF WINTER

And suddenly – in the chill of winter (when are we actually going to get some chill?), as wise men traveled from afar, guided by a shining . . . (woops! wrong story!) lo, there was Jim’s reading!

The next three weeks look to be a very exciting time from where I sit! There’s a good program coming up about authors and agents at the Small Press Center (Jan. 23), there’s the massive, nationwide Associated Writing Programs convention at the end of this month (Jan. 30-Feb. 2), right here in New York, and finally – are you ready for this? – on Tuesday,  February 5, my next reading at the Cornelia Street Café!

Jim at Cornelia St.

Jim reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe

I can’t believe it’s been half a year since I gave a public reading, and I’m really looking forward to this one! I’d hoped that my novel (Wounded By History) would be available for sale at this reading, but it’s beginning to look now like that’s not going to be the case. With small, independent publishers, who don’t have large staffs and tubs of gold ducats, deadlines are even dicier than with the big houses, which have their own problems and delays. But I’m assured my publishers are once again hard on the case, and my book will enjoy its release soon. Let me assure you, no one will be happier than I when it finally pops out of the womb! (It’s a boy! It’s a girl! No, it’s . . . my God! Matilda! Can it be? IT’S A NOVEL!!!)

I’ll probably be reading a small passage from the forthcoming book three weeks from now, but I’m also inclined to try out some new stuff, so listen for that! And, by the way, just got word that one of the stories I read from at my last reading, “Lydia”, will be published soon (Spring issue) in a journal called The Same. (A new litmag, edited by the fine poet, Phil Miller.) I’ll keep you posted.

Hope to see you all there on February 5!

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