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  • Meeting Joseph O’Connor (and Anne Enright)

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    So, by pure chance I got to see Joseph O’Connor at the Listowel Writer’s Festival in beautiful Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland back in May. But this makes it sound like a Bigfoot sighting. Well, this Bigfoot stood in front of a room of a couple hundred people or so. He talked a little bit about…

  • Claire North, Writing on Time Travel

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    As some of you may know, Butterfly, a novel is tangentially about time travel. Claire North, author of the dazzling The Fifteen First Lives of Harry August, has written a blog post for Waterstones about just that very subject, since her book has a slightly different take on time travel than the usual “hop in a machine/Delorean…

  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August: A Review

    I’ve had a great run of luck with books lately (maybe not my own, with regards to finding it an agent, but I’m working on that still). Starting with Swash!, by Brendan Myers, and then the whole amazing Last Policeman trilogy from Ben H. Winters, the post-apocalyptic former garbage man in Adam Sternbergh’s Shovel Ready,…

  • The Agent Hunt, Part Three

    The saga continues! Will it ever end! Probably not in this episode, I can tell you that much. [<a href=”//storify.com/mhanlon/the-agent-hunt-part-three” target=”_blank”>View the story “The Agent Hunt, Part Three” on Storify</a>]

  • A Young Hockey Player’s Retirement Letter

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    So I’ve been doing the literary equivalent of rearranging the throw pillows in the house, organizing my sock drawer, wiping down the counters. Hunting for an agent is a little like fishing… at least the fishing I did when I was a kid. Most of the time I sat on the riverbank (the French River)…

  • Potential Mayan Ball League Expansion Franchise Locations Discovered

    So they discovered yet more ancient Maya cities. Were these more players in the Great Mayan Ball League? Read the official history* and find out!       * Warning: May not actually be official.

  • The Agent Hunt, Continued

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    More adventures you probably want to hear about in my thrilling hunt for an agent for Butterfly, a novel! (Psst… don’t miss the original) [View the story “The Agent Hunt, Continued” on Storify]

  • The Agent Hunt

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    A little story about the currently in-progress agent hunt. [View the story “The Agent Hunt” on Storify]

  • Ask Me a Question on Goodreads

    I don’t know why on God’s Green Earth you’d want to, but you can now ask me questions on Goodreads. As of now there’s no limit of one per customer, and I’ll try to get to the questions every day, unless I forget. C’mon, surely you had burning questions about “The Man in my Nostril,”…

  • Saint Patrick’s Next Trick in the Twisted Tales 2014 Competition

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    Hey there, so “Saint Patrick’s Next Trick,” which some of you may have read as a special thank you gift from me, is up on the Raging Aardvark’s Twisted Tales 2014 competition, which is hosted by EtherBooks. If I want a shot at the People’s Choice Award, I am told, I have until the end of…