Sunday, January 15, 2012

Update coming soon

Hi all,

I'm planning an update and regular posts coming soon.

Due to health issues, a 32% increase in rent in just the past 2 yrs (23% just last yr) and years of pay cuts, I'm moving again. Once things settle down, hopefully in late Feb, I'll give a band update, etc. update.

Hope everyone else out there is well.

Michael

1 comment:

  1. John Michael CummingsJune 15, 2012 at 10:07 AM

    Dear Michael,

    I'm an award-winning author with a new book of YA fiction. Ugly To
    Start With is a series of thirteen interrelated stories about teen life
    published by West Virginia University Press in November
    of 2011.

    Can I interest you in reviewing it?

    My book's only 160 pages short. The writing is easy and open, and all
    the stories are interconnected--same hero and story arc throughout. It
    reads like a brisk novel in the form of stories.

    If you write me back at johnmcummings@aol.com, I'll send you a PDF of my book.

    At this point, my small publisher is out of available review copies, so
    I hope and politely ask that you consider the PDF. I would be
    very grateful.

    My publisher, I should add, can offer your readers a free excerpt
    of my book through a link from your blog to my publisher's website:
    http://wvupressonline.com/cummings_ugly_to_start_with_9781935978084

    Here’s what Jacob Appel, celebrated author of Dyads and The
    Vermin Episode, says about my new collection: "In Ugly to Start With,
    set in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, Cummings tackles the
    challenges of boyhood adventure and family conflict in a taut,
    crystalline style that captures the triumphs and tribulations of
    small-town life. He has a gift for transcending the particular
    experiences to his characters to capture the universal truths of human
    affection and suffering--emotional truths that the members of his
    audience will recognize from their own experiences of childhood and
    adolescence.”

    My short stories have appeared in more than seventy-five literary
    journals, including North American Review, The Kenyon Review, Alaska
    Quarterly Review, and The Chattahoochee Review. Twice I have
    been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. My short story "The Scratchboard
    Project" received an honorable mention in The Best American Short
    Stories 2007.

    I am also the author of the nationally acclaimed coming-of-age
    novel The Night I Freed John Brown (Philomel Books, Penguin Group,
    2009),winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers (Grades
    7-12)and one of ten books recommended by USA TODAY.

    For more information about me, please visit:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Cummings

    Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing back from you.

    Kindly,

    John Michael Cummings

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