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04/24/10 - 09:58 PM
Readers, I'm profoundly honored to have this tide of ink flow to our great golden retriever, Savannah. Enjoy. I pray you take the comfort of her from givng this a read!!
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03/17/10 - 02:23 AM
Alayne in Boston proves a Southern tale can resonate far beyond the American South. Her review speaks of a Northeastern reader who hears, and feels, the chords of a time and place far from her own.
As we climb out toward the launch of She-Rain, I offer Alayne's review link here not merely be...
03/04/10 - 10:47 PM
She-Rain's highest praise yet just went live from a seasoned reviewer in the blogosphere, and I'm in awe of it. Here's a portion:
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I am really struggling to write this review, because everything I've tried putting down so far, seems so lame. There is no real way I can describe h...
02/25/10 - 03:00 PM
Let us hear your comments!! Deepest thanks for spreading the She-Rain word!http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-she-rain-a-story/
02/15/10 - 03:48 PM
Adultery makes news the way war once did. I have no need here to call names. The above headline alone will send famous faces – and the images of their attendant heartbreak -- soaring to mind.
Celebrity love triangles seem as common as our very longing to be ...
01/20/10 - 03:52 PM
She-Rain is structured in much the way Hemingway created In Our Time. Vignettes divide the piece, each creating new insight into the world of the tale. Below is one of those brief vignettes, which in its own way stands alone as a story of sacrificial love and the unique and lasting pulse...
01/11/10 - 09:17 PM
Charles Frazier, I must thank you.
Across the pages of Cold Mountain, your imagination ran in full color. You committed an act of beauty. You proved the power of fiction to reveal our deepest humanity. These years later, I still stand in awe of the world you cal...
01/08/10 - 04:06 PM
The first physical copies of She-Rain just arrived. Ten plus years of work distill into those pages. As its creator, I am in awe of my good fortune -- especially to have worked with my wife, Jill, to bring the final book into being.
In The Jerk, Steve Martin's character, Navin...
12/09/09 - 03:41 PM
Kindle owners. Nook lovers. Don't fret today's news from big publishing. Writers are more entrepreneurial by the day. She-Rain will Nook and Kindle, and with an eagerness to connect directly with YOU, the reader. The days of the ivory-tower mentality among writers and publishers are long gone -- at ...
11/18/09 - 03:12 PM
On this bittersweet day, 11/18/09, I bring you all this news: The final She-Rain galley arrived electronically -- only moments ago. This means the physical books will soon follow. You'll begin to see broader excerpts here and on the blog.
This would cause us great celebrati...
11/01/09 - 01:31 AM
Hey, writers, is anyone here struck with awe and outrage at the number of critics, reviewers and others who celebrate a sanitized form of writing? Looking at a review of a southern novel today, I found praise that the work -- in essence -- carries no voice, sense of place or other patina of The Sout...
10/15/09 - 09:50 PM
The Opening Pages of She-Rain
She-Rain
Written by Michael Cogdill
Copyright 2009, all rights reserved
Prologue
God’s coat landed softer than leaves falling to a pond.
Along about sunset on the sixth day, there in my Granny’s imagination of holy cr...