Just a reminder that I’ll be reading at the Louisiana Book Festival this Saturday (October 4th).  I was invited to participate in a panel discussion concerning a Katrina anthology that includes one of my poems. If anyone is in the neighborhood, please stop by and say hello. The festival is free to everyone!

I’m  delighted to announce that my debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, has been accepted for publication. Thanks to everyone who read drafts of the manuscript. I really appreciate it.

Thanks to everyone for attending the GCACWT Conference this year. I look forward to seeing all of you next year.

Thanks to Roses and Thorns for taking an interest in my work:

Click here to read the complete interview.

Pam and I at The Krewe of Shangrila Ball in New Orleans.

I’d like to thank Gival Press for including my work in their recent issue. Click here to read the poems.

1. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2. The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
3. Ice at the Bottom of the Sea by Mark Richard
4. The Worthy by Will Clarke
5. Eden by Olympia Vernon
6. Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa
7. Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
8. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
9. Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
10. Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions by Maurice Manning

Just finished Mark Richard’s The Ice at the Bottom of the World, and it was fantastic. Lyrical prose filled with gritty, dysfunctional characters. What else could you ask for?

From Library Journal
In Richard’s collection of short stories, we are in familiar but updated Faulkner/Caldwell territory, the gothic American South. Specifically, we are in the country of that endangered species, the redneck. In sharply detailed stories presented without excuse or judgment, and often with a sharp bite of humor, Richard offers creditable characters in the middle of their singular lives. Though full of peculiarly Southern connections, these stories transcend Southern particularity. They are about universals: love and loss and birth and death. –Marcia Tager, Tenafly, N.J. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_literary_journal/v034/34.1abernathy.html