Books, Books, Books!
October 5, 2024
Dear Newsletter Subscribers:
The timing of publication of this piece in Michigan Quarterly Review Online defies my ability to force anything. It was accepted for publication long ago and is running at the perfect time. It's a message for now.
"Messages from the Books that We Choose"
In other news:
1. My new novel Cats on a Pole is selling nicely via a discount link ($10+shipping) directly from the distributor: IngramSpark Cats
It got a lovely review from Will Byrnes/ Coot's Reviews:
"Cats on a Pole is a moving story about people searching for…something, love, companionship, understanding, truth, connection, release. There will be tears as well as laughs. The novel also offers a deeper perspective on spirituality and the meaning of death. It all builds up to a surprising climax, so buckle in. These cats may be stuck atop a pole, (or multiple poles?) getting some temporary safety, but they also gain a broader view of the world, and so will you."
And a couple from Facebook reviewers:
Cari Lyn Stanton
Like a bolt of lightning, Cats on a Pole comes to an astonishing, out-of-the-blue ending that still has me reeling! (and pondering the meaning of a life)
Elyse Walters
I was caught from the first page to the very last. I didn't so much read Cats on a Pole, I was hypnotized by it. Funny, insightful, sexually energy epic, and profoundly recognizable (in ways we know—but didn't know we know)
2. My second new novel this year, The Spectators, was published September 3rd.See more at website, discount link for paperbacks: IngramSpark Spectators
"A novel that in the last chapter reaches the only heaven to which I aspire: a life fully awake to this beautiful bleeding Earth."
—David James Duncan, author of Sun House and The Brothers K
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Betsy Robinson