Small Press Reviews has this to say about Final Appearance:
“A shark attack, a starlet in hiding, a mysterious black box. The opening pages of Stephen Stark’s The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door have all the makings of a Hollywood page turner, but the novel’s style places the author in a far more literary league.” Read more at Small Press Reviews.
Not everything you write goes into the novel, especially if, like me, you take 10+ years to write a novel. Sometimes you write a scene and then decide that the scene is more efficiently alluded to than actually in the novel. I’m going to post some of the more interesting (in my mind — you may think otherwise) bits and pieces here. So here’s a start…. Continue reading
Of TFAOAFGND, and I think they look pretty good. But so I’m reading the first page, and thinking this is a killer first page, and then get down a few grafs and see, crap, a freaking typo. But this is what advance copies are for, or one of the things.
It’s a curious thing, a physical copy of a book that is going to be an ebook — all the heft you’d expect from a book that will, when it is finally published have no heft.
If you’re a reviewer or tastemaker, thought-leader, or just a general bon vivant (you must have evidence of status as bon vivant), shoot Margaret an email at margaret@shelfmediagroup.com and request a copy. You might get lucky.
And it looks really terrific. Should have advance reading copies before too long, so if you’re a reviewer or book blogger, contact margaret@shelfmediagroup.com.
“The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door is about a lot of things. Memory. Celebrity. Family. Identity. Chance. But more than anything, it’s a love story, two love stories in fact. It’s a wise and funny chronicle of a Hollywood star who tries to escape, only to find herself confronted with emptiness, with the shocking knowledge that she doesn’t even know herself.
The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door is about a lot of things. Memory. Celebrity. Family. Identity. Chance. But more than anything, it’s a love story, two love stories in fact. It’s a wise and funny chronicle of a Hollywood star who tries to escape, only to find herself confronted with emptiness, with the shocking knowledge that she doesn’t even know herself.”
— Neil Shurley (@thatneilguy)