Reviews, Interviews, Excerpts and Video. There is A Map to Lost in Space. And it is most beautious.

Big thanks to the crew at Curbside Splendor for making it so. Now please hit it. Thanks.

"Tanzer delivers marvelously in these essays." Lost in Space. The Lit Pub.

Quite kind this David S. Atkinson and The Lit Pub. And quite appreciated. So hugs, many, soon, thank you. Excerpt? Word.

"I found Lost in Space to be intimate, insightful, and vulnerable. It has a weighty subject, but the writing doesn't rely on the subject's weight to get by. Whether you have kids or not, I can't imagine someone reading this book and not being affected. In short — it's good, yo."

Vaughan. Compton. Lit Pub. Storm.

We do love it so when our friends get together and talk writing, especially when old friends find new friends, and so it is with old friend Robert Vaughan talking with new friend Sheldon Lee Compton at The Lit Pub about a variety of writerly things including his new joint The Same Terrible Storm. Delightful it is. All of it. So please do hit that. Because it just might change your life.

Riipi. Caldwell. Legs. And interview.

Whereas the Joseph Riipi talks Legs Get Led Astray with Chloe Caldwell at The Lit Pub.

JR: One of my favorite moments in the book is in “That Was Called Love,” a kind of love letter to New York City from Seattle, when you write: “Last night I described New York to a rock climber in Seattle. ‘It sounds like, New York is for you, what the mountains are for me.’” Since then you’ve moved back to New York (but now just outside the city). Have you found for yourself a permanent mountain?

CC: No. I think “mountains” or “homes” are specific to what you need at that time in your life. For a long time, I truly did think you could count on a place to make you happy. Like, when I moved to New York City, I was young and so affected by it that I thought it was alive. Now I see that just like people — there is not one person or place that you can get everything you want from. It’s all about compromise. If I could mix my mother’s backyard, Brooklyn, and Portland together, that would be a pretty sweet home. When I left the city to move to Washington, I thought that Seattle would be as new and exciting. But it was far from it and for a while, that was hard for me to cope with and accept. It’s like this quote by Fran Lebowitz: “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”

The Sky Conducting by Michael Seidlinger. Reading. And hyping. Though not necessarily in that order.

Which isn't to say it isn't in that order, it's just that, we are reading The Sky Conducting, though not as this very moment, or this one, but there is reading, and we are taking this opportunity to hype it regardless by drawing your attention to this quite kick-ass review by the Alex M. Pruteanu. Now how about some excerpt?

"Seidlinger’s prose is an exercise in brevity, with sentences, phrases, and dialogue coming at you like short jabs to the ribs, to the kidneys, to the jaw . . . advancing the story seamlessly. I liked the construction of the language, as well; building blocks stacked upon building blocks in short passages, making up the chapters."

"So Different Now, shows that his already-impressive gifts for astute narrative observation have sharpened." So Different Now gets The Lit Pub'd. And likes it. A lot.

Quite a lot, big thanks to the Dave K. and The Lit Pub, and drinks on us, for sure, when next we meet. Now, how about some excerpt?

"Hell, someone who didn't get people couldn't write teenagers at all, I don't think – they'd read like miniature adults on the page. Tanzer's work, by contrast, makes statements like “good writers don't have to 'get' people” sound like flailing self-justification."

What the Ryan W. Bradley talks about when he talks about "When Publishing a Book Becomes More than Publishing a Book" and You Can Make Him Like You at The Lit Pub.

And what he talks about, and how he talks about it, is quite wonderful, and we suppose it adds a different sort of heft to the book for us, makes it realer, maybe, or something like that. But whatever it is, it is wonderful, and we appreciate it. A lot. Now how about some excerpt? 

"People often talk about “women’s fiction,” books that speak to women about their lives and mindsets, while entertaining them. Tanzer writes the very best kind of men’s fiction, and I don’t use such a label chauvinistically. Tanzer writes about every aspect of a man, whether flattering or not. He does it with soul, and that’s what makes people gravitate toward his writing and his personality. It’s why his books appeal to both men and women. It is what makes him the best sort of friend and brother from another mother, because What Would Tanzer Do? wouldn’t be a bad credo for any of us as writers or people."