Mick Bennett's Missing You in Belmar, NJ by Mick Bennett. Missing You in Belmar, NJ is available for purchase on September 1, 2014 at all major retailers. Meet Jimmy Hanlon. It’s summer, 1987. Jimmy’s a closeted bisexual in his late forties, nine months removed from a laryngectomy, and in this first part of a trilogy, he’s anxious to find a new identity in his Jersey Shore hometown. He hitches his hopes to a 33 year old lifeguard. The two cruise into summer with an assortment of boardwalk denizens and bar hounds. When they both fall for the same pretty nurse, the ride starts to get bumpy. In Jimmy’s story of redemption, dreams, familial and romantic love, misogamy and prejudice, accommodation and empathy, he discovers that the real victories occur in the small, courageous moments of our lives that overcome societal and personal prejudice. Bennett sells a story, and he sells it with seething realism meshed with ludicrous plot lines. His characters are real-- the city is real-- this shit could happen to you. Missing You in Belmar, NJ is a three-part sequence with the other two titles set to release in 2015 -- we love Mick Bennett, and so should you! Unsolicited Press Announces the Launch of Susan Pepper Robbins's "Nothing but the Weather"8/15/2014
Wake up in a storm. Row down a flooded alley of people looking for their way home. "Nothing but the Weather" wades through the water, both clean and dirty, digging up life without cleaning it off first. The collection introduces you to a grandmother who reads magazines at the grief counselor's office because her doting son wants her to adjust to life again. You will rub shoulders with a bipolar Lynn who has half-started just about every career. Mingle with an array of family units that hold secrets, lies and even love from one another. After a darling half-year of working with the illustrious Susan P. Robbins, we are delighted to announce the release of her book, Nothing but the Weather. Read an excerpt here. Darci Schummer's Six Months in the Midwest debuts nationwide on August 12, 2014: The debut of Darci Schummer's Six Months in the Midwest is available for purchase nationwide. Unsolicited Press, a small press based on the West Coast selected the stunning collection for its wit and true-to-form style. Schummer tells a story the way Carver did. Her dead pan delivery shows real characters in real settings. Schummer is a Wisconsin girl living in Minneapolis, MN. Darci Schummer is a graduate of Hamline University's MFA program. Her fiction has been read in Paper Darts, Revolver, Feile Festa, The Diverse Arts Project, Vita.mn, Conclave: A Journal of Character, Bartleby Snopes, and Midwestern Gothic. She is currently at work on a novel. |
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