Forthcoming, Fall 2014
Homing Instincts by Karen Guzman,
winner of the Fiction Attic Press First Novel Contest
“A pitch perfect debut novel.” Jaqueline Sheehan
New York Times bestselling author of Lost and Found
A story of loss, change and transcendence, Homing Instincts follows Seth Hingham, a young wildlife biologist, as he struggles to put his life back together after his news anchor girlfriend walks out on him and his much loved father dies.
Seth longs to retreat to the pristine woodlands of New England’s North Country, where he believes anonymity and solitude will heal his wounds. But a slow job market up North forces him to first make a detour to his Connecticut hometown.
Old ghosts pop up, as Seth’s cousin concocts a plan to honor the memory of a high school classmate killed in a long ago accident for which Seth has always felt responsible. At the same time, changing family dynamics in the wake of his father’s death are toppling the old status quo as Seth struggles to determine who he is and where he belongs. A chance at new love with a spirited, yet fragile, single mother further complicates the picture.
Homing Instincts traces Seth’s painful, redemptive, and sometimes humorous, journey to re-imagine his past and create a new future.
Format: Paperback, 338 pages Price: $17.99
ISBN: 978-0-9911499-3-3
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Forthcoming Fall, 2014
Forthcoming Fall, 2014
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Commuter
a novella
by Edward Wells II and Nicolas Diaz
A novella in 23 parts, Commuter explores landscape and longing in 23 vivid and evocative snapshots. A fascinating collaboration by two young writers from whom we’re sure to hear more.
Fiction Attic Press subscribers can access this novella for free.
Flash in the Attic: 33 Very Short Stories
33 innovative, thought-provoking stories under 1,000 words, from new and established writers.
Featuring the winners of the Flash in the Attic Flash Fiction Contest, as well as former Fiction Attic contributors Steve Almond, Corey Mesler, Vanessa Hua, and Ilana Stanger-Ross. With new fiction from Meg Pokrass and others. Foreword by Michelle Richmond.
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The NaNoWriMo Workbook
Make the most of National Novel Writing Month! The NaNoWriMo Workbook is the essential guide to writing your novel.
A series of 500-word prompts will help you get the bones of your story on the page. Learn how to write a compelling beginning, create complex characters, find the thematic heart of your novel, establish point of view, and craft a plot that keeps readers turning the pages. Find the best structure for your novel and bring the story to a satisfying conclusion. Learn tips for effective dialogue and master the art of conflict. Whether you want to write your book in 30 days or 300, The NaNoWriMo Workbook will help you get there. A valuable resource for the first-time novelist, featuring everything you need to know to write your novel now.
From the Fiction Attic Press Workbooks for Writers series. 188 pages.
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Tracks, by Tara Wright
Fiction Attic Press Single Story E-book Series, #1
“She imagines a house fire in which only the baby survives. She imagines this in more detail than she would like.”
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Everything You’d Hoped It Would Be, by Travis Hubbs
Fiction Attic Press Single Story E-book Series, #2
In the morning Carlysle woke up, energized, freshly optimistic. As the days passed, she carried around with her an arsenal of daydreams—images that showed her a life far removed from the diner and its gasoline fumes and the mildewy aroma of the perspiring laborers from whom she took meal orders, always smiling, speaking to them gently with her lyrical, antebellum accent that made their stomachs churn with desire.
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At times I think maybe I should have played hard to get, or maybe we shouldn’t have eaten at the station together, or maybe I should have just gotten her telephone number and met Edmond as planned. Any little thing could have made a difference. It’s hard to know whether something that has happened in the past is important or marginal. How can you tell the difference?
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Winter in Tirane: The Stories of Jiri Kajane, brings together for the first time twelve intertwined tales of bittersweet love, absurd politics, and comic hijinks by the enigmatic Jiri Kajane. Set against the final days of the Albanian empire, the stories follow an unnamed narrator–the Deputy Minister of Slogans–and his young friend Leni as they attempt to navigate a landscape of shifting political alliances and unsettling personal affairs. By turns funny, profound, and moving, Winter in Tirane is an exploration of the meaning of identity, the power of suggestion, and the complex relationship between a story and its creator.
“The stories are told with a deft touch that suggests bittersweet comedy. The communist-era hardships fade into the background as we watch two men struggle with simpler issues like love, the death of loved ones, scarcity and boredom…This (book + hoax) is consummate storytelling.” Nouspique
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