"Teenage lust in summer theatre, cheating boyfriends on The Tonight Show, and an escapee from a pumpkin farm; these are just a few of the characters in short stories from Lambda Literary Award winner Jim Provenzano. The five-time novelist shares new and previously published works, and excerpts from forthcoming novels."
The GoodReads promo book giveaway is slower to get approval from their staff, even though it's owned by Amazon.com. Kinda ironic, since Amazon is 100 times bigger than GoodReads. Or not. Anyway, it runs May 14 through May 28.
You can pre-order the Kindle edition now, which will be out June 1. I was informed this is a good way to promote a book, so that when it's released it'll show up higher on sales rankings. Frankly, I'm a bit pre-exhausted with all this expected promotional stuff; giveaways, ARC (Advanced Reader Copies), blog tours, etc. 
One friend said "Get a cat and vlog shirtless with it."
Yeah, okay, no.
You know how I promoted my first San Francisco reading in, 1994? I was in the anthology Waves
, which included the title story, "Forty Wild Crushes."
actor is mentioned in the short story. By the time the reading started, the store was packed.So it was surprisingly appropriate that my colleague Aldo Alvarez (whose short fiction collection, Interesting Monsters
, was part of the inspiration for my assembling a short story collection) blurbed my book with this quote:"Jim Provenzano's short stories are as beautiful and chiseled as a young Robert Conrad, and they make me swoon just as much." - Aldo Alvarez, author of Interesting Monsters, founder and editor of Blithe House Quarterly
I have some San Francisco area readings coming up in June and July. Follow me on Twitter, where everything's reduced to a Bitly link. PR, Sweetie! Pop-Specs!
Selling point! PR! Giveaway link here!
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