Press for The Distance from Four Points
Showing off my creepy Gallery of Strangers on The Coil
“Creating a New Home for Readers, and Myself”—an essay on BooksbyWomen.org
Talking about The Distance from Four Points—with halushki!—on Stephanie Weaver’s Blue and Yellow Kitchen video series
Fantastic review on the Rust Belt Girl blog
Book review on the Sacred Chickens blog
Q&A with Deborah Kalb
Reading with the Hidden Timber Small Press Author Reading Series—available to view here
Talking about food on Entropy Magazine’s Dinnerview
Interview on Bidwell Hollow
Q&A with author Leslie Pietrzyk on her Work in Progress blog
Finding a home for a very old memory is one of the reasons why I write—an essay in Christi Craig’s Sunday Series
“When Research Becomes Too Real,” in Necessary Fiction’s Research Notes
Five Things I Learned Writing The Distance from Four Points, on Chuck Wendig’s blog Terrible Minds
Some characters show up too early and stay too late—an essay on Litreactor
Launch event with Octavia Books! Background, research, a reading, and Q&A. Watch it here.
I made a playlist of country songs from the nineties and early aughts—the perfect soundtrack for The Distance from Four Points—for Largehearted Boy
Talking creepy portraits, a favorite coat, and more in Authors Answer
Writing The Distance from Four Points took me closer to my hometown than I’d been in decades. It wasn’t a pretty journey. Read my Big Idea essay on John Scalzi’s Whatever blog.
Book Riot recommends The Distance from Four Points as “utterly engrossing” and “a moving examination of home and belonging” in its Indie Press Round-Up
Ravishly features an excerpt from The Distance from Four Points
The Other Stories podcast features a reading and author interview
I compare The Distance from Four Points to unlikely things—a ferret, an antler—in the “If My Book” feature on Monkeybicycle
“The First Time My Life Imitated My Art,” about my unexpected path to small-town landlording, appears on The Quivering Pen’s My First Time series.
Foreword Reviews says The Distance from Four Points is “rich with details about the southwest corner of Pennsylvania…and an underlying sense of community.”
Hypertext features an excerpt and a One Question interview, where I address the question: “How do the harsh, neglectful landlords of Four Points sleep at night?”
Live Facebook reading of an excerpt with the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia—video available here!
What happens to my characters now that the world I wrote them into has changed completely? Talking about fiction and fate at Mom Egg Review.
An excerpt from The Distance from Four Points is up at Littsburgh, the premier site for literary Pittsburgh!
Publishing during a pandemic requires a #virtualbooktour…Read about the launch I thought I’d have, and the dead darling I miss the most, on Dead Darlings.
I write about where I was on April 8, 2010, for Past Ten—a time of my life that involved early motherhood, isolation, insomnia, and also a glimmer of hope.
Review up at Bookstalker Blog
The Distance from Four Points is included on Big Other’s Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2020
The Distance from Four Points appears in Steph’s Spring Book Preview, 2020 Edition, from author and blogger Steph Post