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My galley proof is here, and I have a lot of feelings about it.

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May 8, 2013 anxiety author Eagle and the Arrow fiction galley galley proof literature proof writer Writing. 3 Comments

First look at the cover of my new book.

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April 22, 2013 author Beware the Hawk book cover art Eagle and the Arrow fiction illustration literature vagabondage press 2 Comments

Tamela Ritter’s ‘From These Ashes’ is released today!

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March 12, 2013 American Indians American West authors books cult recovery fiction From These Ashes literature Native Americans publishing reading release Sherman Alexie Tamela J. Ritter YA YA books 4 Comments

February: 2013 goals

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February 1, 2013 book fiction goals New Years resolutions self-help Writing. Leave a Comment

The sequel! (Because guess what? There’s going to be a sequel.)

December 21, 2012 author Beware the Hawk fiction literature literaure news novella publishing sequel thriller vagabondage press writer Writing. 6 Comments

Spry is Live! (some favorites from the first issue of a new online journal.)

December 19, 2012 fiction flash journal literary literature new literary journal nonfiction poetry Reading Rainbow. Spry Spry Literary Journal sprylit Writing. 1 Comment

The short form: An interview with the editors of ‘Spry,’ a new literary journal

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October 5, 2012 editor fiction flash fiction interview lit mag new literary journal non-fiction poetry prose publishing Spry Spry Literary Journal submissions writer Writing. 12 Comments

Publicity for me and a fellow MFA alum.

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September 14, 2012 AJ O'Connell Bookstore colin halloran Fairfield University Fairfield University MFA fiction flier literature poetry Reading Rainbow. university bookstore war in afghanistan Writing. 2 Comments

A clean office is a bad thing for a writer.

Allegory of Music.
September 10, 2012 allegory anne lamott author cleaning fiction messy office newsroom procrastination work writer Writing. 6 Comments

May: Goals for 2012

April 30, 2012 anxiety badgers cormac mccarthy fiction goal goals literature New Years resolutions religion writing goals Writing. 2 Comments

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I’m A.J. O’Connell.


I'm an author & a journalist. Last year I published my first book. My second book will be released this summer.

My books.

Eagle&Arrow thriller novella Check it out! "The Eagle & The Arrow" is my newest book, the second in my Resistance Series. It will be released by Battered Suitcase Press on June 11. It's pulp fiction. (Real pulp fiction, though, not like the movie.) Beware the Hawk thriller novella
"Beware the Hawk" is my first book, published in 2012 by Vagabondage Press's Battered Suitcase Press.
Beware the Hawk

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Stuff writers like

  • Books Distilled
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These are my Tweets.

  • Come on, Last Thing on the Tuesday To-Do List, get done. 8 hours ago
  • Had some interesting real estate adventures today. 9 hours ago
  • RT @EditorForFire: Called IT bc we haven't received email in an hour. "Are you sure?" he asks. Then "Now that you mention it, I haven't eit… 10 hours ago
  • @tamela_j You can still do it; your book will be out forevah. 16 hours ago
  • @studiodog Okay. I'm getting my broomstick. Next time The Cackler comes by, I will be ready. 1 day ago
  • @Joey__Bee Is there a proper response to a cackler? Do I cackle back? 1 day ago
  • @tamela_j We'll see. I read a really good blog post about it, actually: novelpublicity.com/2012/02/how-to… 1 day ago

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