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More love for Bitter Orange!
In which Book Cover Justice says Very Nice Things about my latest: http://bookcoverjustice.blogspot.hk/2013/08/review-bitter-orange-by-marshall-moore.html
Have you bought it yet? You know you want to. bitter orange, reviewsWeird Fiction Review on Bitter Orange
Bitter Orange got a mostly favorable but slightly meh review from Weird Fiction Review. Honestly, I'm just flattered to have even rated the attention from them. The reviewer liked the premise and the set-up but wasn't crazy about the ending, finding it rushed.
( Read more... )Steal my book(s).
With a new book out, I naturally search the Internet now and then (translation: obsessively) to see what is being said about it, if anything. It has turned up on several pirate book-download sites, and this Twitter account also has it:
https://twitter.com/ajahutop
( Read more... )Huffington Post & new review of Bitter Orange
1. The awesomeness that is Trebor Healey interviewed me for Huffington Post. What's published there is a shorter version of the interview; the full version will be published on Monday (July 1) at Out in Print. Check out the short version here.
( Read more... )A very thoughtful review
Jaclyn Qua-Hiansen at Literary Treats has written a very thoughtful review of Bitter Orange:
http://literarytreats.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/review-bitter-orange-marshall-moore/
Marshall Moore’s short story collection The Infernal Republic explored experiences of ennui and despair beneath a veneer of the absurd. The author takes this a step ( Read more... )New reviews and A Garden Fed by Lightning.
There are a couple of noteworthy new reviews for Bitter Orange.
First of all, the awesomeness that is Peter Tieryas Liu did a video review of it! He and his wife, the awesomeness that is Angela Xu, do video reviews of books that they like. (They also did a terrific book trailer for Peter's amazing debut, Watering Heaven.) They really capture ( Read more... )Early review of Bitter Orange and another guest blog post
It seems that Bitter Orange is off to a good start. The first few reviews have been very positive, and I'm cautiously optimistic about its prospects. This time around, I'm trying not to throw my own book under the bus in order to focus on books by our (Signal 8 Press) other authors. (Yes, I did that last year, and I regret it ( Read more... )Bitter Orange: Now on Smashwords
Now that Smashwords lets publishers and authors upload ePubs instead of Word files (which are often subsequently mangled), we're back. Check it out here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/309153. I'll send it to other e-retailers in the near future!Interview (in case you missed it the first time)
Here's the text of the Dan O'Brien Project interview, in case you missed it the first time and were interested:
Tell us about your most recent release.
My new novel is titled Bitter Orange. This is my fifth book (I’m also the author of two short story collections and two earlier novels), and I wrote it while I was living in Korea. It’s a dark ( Read more... )
