EXCITING EXCITEMENT ! A NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION AND A NEW NOVEL BY ME VIA GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING!
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Decatur Book Fest! Photo by Meg Reid! <3
WHISKEY & RIBBONS LONGLISTED FOR THE CROOK'S CORNER BOOK PRIZE!
(photo via Crook's Corner Book Prize!)
An awesome honor alongside this amazingness! DEETS!
WHISKEY & RIBBONS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE !
WHISKEY & RIBBONS IN OPRAH MAGAZINE!
I mean how cool is that? (Super and very and extra.) <3 O's Top Books of Summer !!!
NORTH CAROLINA AND WHISKEY & RIBBONS IN GERMAN ! FÜR DAMALS, FÜR IMMER !
I had such lovely bookstore events in North Carolina! Thank you so much to Angela Belcher Epps and Bridgette Lacy and Naima Coster and Quail Ridge Books and Flyleaf Books and everyone who came out! And Greensboro Bound! More EVENTS here ! And soon WHISKEY & RIBBONS will be available in German !
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IS DYING BUT SO ARE WE
NOW AVAIL VIA PLATYPUS PRESS ! A story abt marriage and jealousy and mistakes (?), etc.
Minnie and her husband Adam were unusually quiet on their way home from the theatre. Adam was the actor, the star. Adam had to kiss his co-star Caitriona three times during the play because it was in the script.
“Did you want something to eat?” Adam finally asked.
“I don't care,” Minnie said, staring out the window.
“Chinese? Greek? Maybe a burger?” Adam asked, taking his finger and pointing to the restaurants as they passed them.
“Well, too late now. There they go,” Minnie said, fussily flicking her hand and waving to the restaurants, their signs. Shadows of people. Lurking. Waiting. Too hungry or too full.
“I can go back,” he said, tapping the brake gently. Slowing.
“Nope. I'll eat something at home.”
“Are you angry with me?” he asked as he let off the brake, gunned the car forward.
It was late. A Thursday night hinting at a stormy early morning. As they'd walked out of the theatre, the sky had been a black-violet dream. The diamond stars, out just long enough to create wonder, were now hidden behind smoke-grey puffs slipping across the missing moon.
POETS & WRITERS &&
Exciting! I wrote an essay called IN PRAISE OF QUIET BOOKS for the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. It's avail only in print! And you can read my convo w/Silas House (one of my v fave writers) online here! You can also listen to me read the opening section of my essay on the Ampersand podcast!
I also wrote abt finding inspiration in period pieces and pretty dresses for WRITERS RECOMMEND!
And so many lovely and kind bookstagrammers have been taking the prettiest pics of WHISKEY & RIBBONS! You can follow me in IG @leesacrosssmith and I try to keep up w/posting them bc they're beautiful and I love seeing them!
Dig the EVENTS page for where I'll be for the rest of April and May! SOKY book fest, Arkansas Lit Fest, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Quail Ridge and Flyleaf and Greensboro Bound in NC! If y're in or around these places, come say Hi! <3
