Here's the podcast link so you can hear our interview this past Sunday morning with Rick Kogan on The Sunday Papers, which is his show on WGN Radio 720. Solace in So Many Words was the topic of the first half-hour and Rick was a gracious and interested host who called Solace in So Many Words "a fine, fine book." Appearing on the show with me were contributors J. Scott Smith ("Heartbeat") and Joan Corwin ("Details") and it was apparent that Rick had read their stories and … [Read more...]
Short story collection giveaway–you could win!
I will get better at posting every day. Lately the blog has been taking a backseat to my other duties as publisher, like working on the e-book and planning the launch and readings of Solace in So Many Words. But I can be remiss no longer, and I will now update the information on The Collection Giveaway contest, and since I missed about twenty posts, I will give you twenty reasons that show short stories are the bomb. Here's the skinny: Weighed Words is celebrating May as … [Read more...]
Win books as part of Short Story Month
I found out from Dan Wicket of Emerging Writers Network that May is Short Story Month. Erika Dreifus at Fiction Writers Review came up with idea to celebrate with The Collection Giveaway Project, urging bloggers interested in the short story to participate. So we are! Weighed Words is recommending Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern) and we’ll give it away on May 31 to someone who responds to the blog. This book is by Joe Meno (his first … [Read more...]
Contributors news 4-30 Meno, Bass, Somlo
Check out The Chicago Reader "Spring Books: Homages" feature articles in which five Chicago novelists write about the books and writers that inspired them. Joe Meno writes about Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five in the article, “Vonnegut’s Disciple: Slaughterhouse-Five gave Joe Meno a path to The Great Perhaps.” The other articles in the series on Chicago writers are: “Finding Thomas McGuane: Luis Alberto Urrea discovered a master in beat-up paperbacks;” “A Chelsea of … [Read more...]
Star Witness–more on contributors
Joe Meno's play "Star Witness" is on stage now until May 7 at the Chopin Theater. Here's the description: "A small town mystery. A girl gone missing. A police scanner with no answers. Star Witness is the story of Shelley, a nineteen-year-old waitress in the tiny town of Somerset, IL, hoping for something, anything to surprise her. When a local child disappears, Shelley and her foster grandmother Hazel steel themselves beside the police scanner, hoping for good news. But as … [Read more...]