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October 21, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
Independent Publisher Online has made St. Peter's Monsters a highlighted title .
This means IPO recognizes it as one of the best of the books received and reviewed by its editorial staff.
These . . .
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October 21, 2009 10:24 AM EDT --
<small>Check out my tweets here .</small>
<small>http://twitter.com/ nevabryan </small>
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October 15, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
The book is wonderful!!! I started it Saturday night when I got home and was hooked. I should have been packing on Sunday but kept picking up the book instead!" - J.R.
"I have been reading non-stop . . .
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September 22, 2009 02:58 PM EDT --
Hal Hubener is an excellent interviewer. He actually read the book and asked in-depth questions. I was pleasantly surprised.
Cover to Cover 108:Neva Bryan episode_url Here’s the link: < . . .
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September 11, 2009 01:25 PM EDT --
Enter my contest and win a basket of my favorite things:
A necklace hand-beaded and donated by Leah Lawson: natural stone, quartz, swaro crystals, and sterling clasp.
A Clinch River Farmers Market . . .
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August 06, 2009 09:38 AM EDT --
Southwest Virginia Museum, Big Stone Gap, VA, August 8, 1:00 PM
YWCA, Bristol, TN, September 17, Noon
Coffee Depot, Christiansburg, VA, September 19, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Java J’s Downtown, . . .
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August 04, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
OK, writers. Here’s a stimulating exercise for you.
The next time you go on a trip, write down interesting street names and community names that you discover. Take those names and create a story . . .
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July 29, 2009 09:33 PM EDT --
Recently a writer I know remarked on his deep disappointment that so few people had shown up for one of his readings. He said he felt “pathetic” and mentioned low book sales.
I advised him . . .
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July 29, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
Thanks to Hal Hubener, director of Blue Ridge Regional Library, for inviting me to be on Cover To Cover, the library's weekly TV program broadcast live on BTW Channel 21 (Comcast Cable), Collinsville. . . .
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July 21, 2009 01:13 PM EDT --
“I loved the flow of your book. You jumped around in time so seamlessly. Congratulations on a job well done!” — C.O.
“I absolutely loved your book and I read at least . . .
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July 10, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
St. Peter’s Monsters is available at these fine booksellers and retail stores: Joseph Beth, Lexington, KY; Family Drug, Lebanon, VA; Coffee Buy the Book, Pulaski, VA; Wise County Historical . . .
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July 10, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
“Blacksnake.” Jimson Weed , vol. XXIV, new series vol. 8, no. 2 (Fall 2005).
Blacksnake
Coiled in my path like an ampersand.
My heart beats an ellipsis . . . Punctuates the . . .
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July 02, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
When author Alice Hoffman read Roberta Silman’s review of her novel The Story Sisters , the author was not pleased. The review wasn’t stellar but certainly it wasn’t crushing. Hoffman, . . .
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June 30, 2009 03:35 PM EDT --
<cite>I'll be signing copies of St. Peter's Monsters at Coffee Buy the Book, Pulaski, VA, on Saturday, July 4, 11 AM - 2 PM.</cite>
Happy Independence Day!
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June 26, 2009 01:39 PM EDT --
Mara mentioned villanelles at Spoken Word last weekend. Here's a form I like: the pantoum.
It is a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third . . .
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June 11, 2009 10:46 AM EDT --
I'm excited to have my work appear in the book anthology We All Live Downstream alongside work by:
• Earl Hamner (creator of the Waltons) • Ashley Judd • Robert Kennedy Jr. • Wendell . . .
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June 10, 2009 12:36 PM EDT --
Excerpt from The Editorial Department's website regarding St. Peter's Monsters:
"Neva worked with TED Managing Editor Jesse Steele to make her book ready for publication, and while editing Jesse absolutely . . .
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June 08, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
“It’s one of the best novels I’ve read that uses this area as the frame around the story. You captured the beauty of . . . Southwest Virginia in a love story filled with twists and . . .
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June 04, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
Excerpt from “Sawmill Boys.” Appalachian Heritage, vol. 34, no. 4 (Fall 2006).
For more information about Appalachian Heritage , Berea College's literary journal, and to order back issues, . . .
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June 03, 2009 04:19 PM EDT --
The title came to me like phrases or entire lines of poetry sometimes come to me: it just popped into my head while I was driving. I get my best ideas at other inconvenient times, too, like when I’m . . .
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Neva B.
Southwest Virginia
Author of St. Peter's Monsters
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