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Headed up to Hartford for Colin McEnroe’s radio show.

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May 13, 2013 90.5 authors chandra prasad colin mcenroe colin mcenroe show connecticut public broadcasting index cards literature novel WNPR 3 Comments

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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The Irish poetry that rescued me from radio hell… and then vanished.

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April 15, 2013 contemporary Irish poets divine feminine Ireland Irish literature Irish poetry Irish women poets literature Medbh McGuckian Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill poetry radio radio program radio show 4 Comments

‘From These Ashes’: an interview with author Tamela Ritter

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April 5, 2013 authors Battered Suitcase Press books From These Ashes interview literature Tamela J. Ritter vagabondage press 2 Comments

My Kindle DX’s breakdown will be just like the greatest literary disaster in history, as far as I’m concerned.

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

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‘Good Things’: An interview with author Nick Knittel

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February 15, 2013 author author interview book prize Charles Simic Fairfield University MFA Good Things interview literary fiction literature New Rivers Press nick knittel short story 1 Comment

I’ll be at Books & Boos on Saturday, and I’m only reading the scary parts.

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I shouldn’t have spent so many years avoiding ‘Pride & Prejudice.’

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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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  • Come on, Last Thing on the Tuesday To-Do List, get done. 6 hours ago
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  • 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… 8 hours ago
  • @tamela_j You can still do it; your book will be out forevah. 15 hours ago
  • @studiodog Okay. I'm getting my broomstick. Next time The Cackler comes by, I will be ready. 23 hours ago
  • @Joey__Bee Is there a proper response to a cackler? Do I cackle back? 23 hours ago
  • @tamela_j We'll see. I read a really good blog post about it, actually: novelpublicity.com/2012/02/how-to… 23 hours ago

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