Fiction
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Free Fiction: The Promotion Minisode #2
As announced last week, The Promotion: A Novella is now available for sale from Amazon as an e-book, and the print version should be up very soon (i.e., in the next few days). I’m also releasing sections of the book in a series of minisodes. Enjoy! Previously in The Promotion: Minisode #1: In Which the Narrator… Continue reading
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Small Press Shout-Out: Les Figues Press!
Okay! We’re back from our foray into the world of B-Corporation small presses and are in the more familiar world of nonprofit small presses. This week: Les Figues Press! The first thing that jumped out at me on their website is that they have a link for membership. Become a member? Of a small press?… Continue reading
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Free Fiction: The Promotion Minisode #1
As announced last week, The Promotion: A Novella is now available for sale from Amazon as an e-book, and the print version should be up very soon (i.e., in the next few days). I’m also planning to release the book for you, the readers of the Jacke Blog, in a series of minisodes. Enjoy! The Promotion… Continue reading
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The Novella and the Tramp
Do you recognize this man? (Hint: He’s a genius.) If you guessed “Charlie Chaplin, film star,” you’re partially right. The correct answer is “Charlie Chaplin, film star and novella-ist. The Hollywood Reporter has the news: The only book Charlie Chaplin ever wrote has been restored and will soon be published by an Italian film restoration… Continue reading
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Small Press Shout-Out: Little Pickle Press!
Here we go, people. Ask and ye shall receive. We were looking for a small press brave and bold enough to venture into B Corporation* waters. *A fuller explanation of a B Corporation is here. The nutshell version is that it’s a legal entity that enables a company to adopt a broader mandate than the… Continue reading
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New Novella Release: The Promotion!
Another great day here on the Jacke Blog. I’m excited to announce the release of my new book, The Promotion: A Novella. Officially, The Promotion “is the deadpan cri de couer of a lawyer trapped inside a Kafkaesque firm, tasked with recruiting new attorneys even as he himself slides into obsession and madness.” Unofficially, it’s… Continue reading
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Popova on Woolf
I’m still absorbing yesterday’s Terrible Poem Breakdown and its use of the Druid. I still kind of like the poem! Undeniably terrible, but even so. Terrible poems with druids are not all bad. (Please don’t try to prove me wrong, poets!) Running through some research on the druids, I came across Maria Popova’s look at… Continue reading
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Small Press Shout-Out: Black Balloon Publishing!
Okay, today’s small press is definitely on the quirkier side. How quirky? Quirkier than that. It just might be the quirkiest of any of our small press shout-outs thus far. First things first. Black Balloon’s website is gorgeous. Not very quirky! Just elegant and beautiful. But then there’s this motto: We champion the weird, the… Continue reading
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Print Version of The Race Available Now!
At long last, I’m happy to announce the print version of The Race: A Novella is here! The above image links to the book’s page at Amazon.com. You can also buy it directly from CreateSpace. I had a few minor hiccups with the CreateSpace process, but in general I found it fairly easy going, and I… Continue reading
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What They Knew #28
“You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart… Continue reading
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