So nice to stumble into the Ten Authors Who Deserve More Recognition list at the always wonderful and supportive TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog and see TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer coming in at number three and keeping company with among others the Joshua Mohr and Michael Kimball both TBWCYL, Inc. favorites and authors we are big fans of. We were also taken with the fact that we didn't recognize everyone on the list, hence the recognition thing, which us got thinking, that we can, should, need to read more, learn more and support more writers everywhere, and maybe, maybe we can encourage you to as well, because it just might change your life, and it will very likely change theirs.
"This guy right here is one of the most active, interactive authors out there right now. He runs a blog, online 'zine, podcast page, guest posts, tweets, raises his kids, and runs...! Phew! How does he manage to write as much as he does with a schedule like that? In novels like You Can Make Him Like You and Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine, Tanzer rips open the heads and hearts of his male characters so you can see what's really going on in there. His novels also have this comfortable retro-90's feel to them, which I adore."
So, the fine folks at TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog have a great new feature called Tell Me a Story where they are inviting writers to write them a previously unpublished story. First up, is TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Joshua Mohr, and there are rumors, that TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer just might be making an appearance as well. We'll see, but for now, some excerpt.
"Between these questions, though, I have to entertain myself. I’ve been watching eighteen, nineteen hours of TV a day, which it turns out is a good thing because it’s where I see it: where I see baseball players celebrating, pouring champagne over one another’s heads, guzzling the stuff, spanking the asses of every teammate within an arm’s length. I’m no baseball fan, didn’t even know the World Series was happening right now. I mean, how am I supposed to worship millionaires with low IQs who adjust their cocks and spit brown piles of tobacco in the grass that look like smashed tarantulas?"
That may have been a lame play on words, though maybe not, we will definitely focus group that and get back to you. In the interim though, we came across two things we want to share with you from and about two friends and writers we are fans of. First off, Joshua Mohr author of Some Things That Meant The World To Me, which we recently riffed on here at the blog, has a great interview up at SFGate, very nice, do check it out, and second, Ken Wohlrob of the Love Book fame, also riffed on here at blog, has a new story, Job in Williamsburg, which we read some version of along the way, also very nice, that he is releasing as a downloadable e-book, the first apparently of monthly dowloads he intends to make available, so do check this out as well. We would add here, that both of these shout-outs do tie into this now ongoing diatribe of ours, books are not dead, and writers are not obsolete, but we do need to work it. Cool?
We want to offer many thanks to Joshua Mohr author of TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Some Things That Meant The World To Me for the kind review of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine he recently posted to Goodreads. It is much appreciated and it can be read in its entirety below. For real. Just look. There you go.
"Ben Tanzer has a playwright's ear for dialogue, which I mean as a huge compliment. And he showcases it often in this quick novel. The main characters wax about their zeitgeist, making humorous and devastating observations, often only lines removed from one another. No easy task."
We have only recently met author Joshua Mohr, and electronically at that, but after reading about his soon to be released debut novel Things That Meant The World To Me we were quite geeked to take a look. Having done so, what do we think? Strange and sad, endlessly disturbing and very, very wrong. In other words, a must read. We hope you check it out.
So nice to stumble into the Ten Authors Who Deserve More Recognition list at the always wonderful and supportive TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog and see TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer coming in at number three and keeping company with among others the Joshua Mohr and Michael Kimball both TBWCYL, Inc. favorites and authors we are big fans of. We were also taken with the fact that we didn't recognize everyone on the list, hence the recognition thing, which us got thinking, that we can, should, need to read more, learn more and support more writers everywhere, and maybe, maybe we can encourage you to as well, because it just might change your life, and it will very likely change theirs.
