Thursday’s Pre-Publication Post: First Review Is In!

I received plenty of emails during my recent 10-day trip to Israel. Including two (one was a Google Alert) that let me know that the first review of my short-story collection, Quiet Americans, had been posted.

I have to admit that I was a bit frightened before I read the review, and was both relieved and humbled by the reviewer’s take: “an exceptional book of short stories examining morals, memory and remembrance, and personal conflicts and forgiveness.”

Go ahead–read the review for yourself!

The Wednesday Web Browser

Oh, so much transpired while I was away! Here’s an attempt–feeble as it may be–to catch up:

Friday Find: Home Thoughts from Abroad

No, I’m not about to point you to some resource about Robert Browning. But I am about to leave shortly on a long-planned trip out of the country. And I won’t be blogging while I’m gone.

So if you’re looking for something to help with your writing practice while I’m away, I hope that you’ll find enough right here on our home site, erikadreifus.com, to keep you busy. If you haven’t yet taken a look around, here are some of the resources you’ll discover:

That should keep you busy for awhile! I’ll look forward to catching up with all of you later in the month!

Thursday’s Pre-Publication Post: Progress!

Back in June I wrote here about the necessary task of arranging events to help readers meet and get to know my soon-to-be-published short story collection, Quiet Americans. Lots of you shared sage advice in comments (and via backchannel), and I remain very grateful for that.

I’m happy to report that within the past week, I’ve scheduled the first post-publication event! I don’t want to say too much about it quite yet, because we’re still ironing out a couple of details, and I’m neurotic enough to think that if I start promoting this before the venue does it will somehow all fall apart, but suffice to say that if you’re going to be in D.C. area around the time of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in early February, you should consider yourself invited to a Sunday afternoon event (February 6)! More details to come.