transmothraI just got done reading my friend Jackie Corley‘s manuscript. Devastated. Trust me, this will blow you away. When it gets out there onto the shelves, finally, you will need to take a deep breath and plunge right into the raging torrent of a story this is. It’s tragic, moving, and crazy good.
The prodigious and prolific Jackie Corley has provided me with what looks to be one yummy manuscript.
The thrillride is called At the Slaughter and within a couple of years you’re going to have read it, too. This is going to be the book that changes people’s lives, like The Catcher in the Rye and On the Road once did (and continue to do so today). It’s going to break records and win every award there is on Earth.
It’s about a tragic kid named Foster O’Reilly. Remember that name. Foster is the most complex and compelling character i think i may have ever run into, in a book, or even in real life. She will grab you by the balls someday and not let go.
The first paragraph is amazing. So far, i’d bet my life that she’s nailed it, in her inimitable way.
Jackie Corley. Foster O’Reilly. Two names, one crushing heartfuck of a book. Remember.
Must go read it now. L8r sk8rz.
Word Riot, a monthly online literary magazine, is celebrating 4 years this month! If’n you read books, you’ll want to head on over to their publishing node and buy a couple, because they’ve got some of the best and brightest new talent around these days.
Now if ever their incredibly talented EIC herself would get her own Great Work done… that girl is like James Baldwin or something! Come on! But she does have an awful lot on her plate these days, career-wise and et cetera.
Anyway: Throw the goat (and dollars) at WR!