Monday, February 16, 2009
Greetings!
For information on SINGLES, click here!
This blog is a repository for excerpts from my novels:
* You Don't Think She Is, my completed first novel (and sequentially the first one featuring these characters), which I am currently submitting to agents and editors;
* A second, in-the-works novel, which consists of pieces of my Goddard MFA thesis, Sad Sweet Dreamer, but revised to include stuff like, oh, for instance, plot;
*A third, also-in-the-works novel, working title Rae, which brings these same characters into the present day.
I hope you enjoy what you read. If you are a READER and you like it, tell a friend about it... pass the link along.
Better yet, tell a publisher or editor or agent about it! Who knows?
And if you're an editor or a publisher or agent and you want to read more... maxshenkwrites@aol.com
Thanks for visiting!
Max Harrick Shenk
9 July 2007
This blog is a repository for excerpts from my novels:
* You Don't Think She Is, my completed first novel (and sequentially the first one featuring these characters), which I am currently submitting to agents and editors;
* A second, in-the-works novel, which consists of pieces of my Goddard MFA thesis, Sad Sweet Dreamer, but revised to include stuff like, oh, for instance, plot;
*A third, also-in-the-works novel, working title Rae, which brings these same characters into the present day.
I hope you enjoy what you read. If you are a READER and you like it, tell a friend about it... pass the link along.
Better yet, tell a publisher or editor or agent about it! Who knows?
And if you're an editor or a publisher or agent and you want to read more... maxshenkwrites@aol.com
Thanks for visiting!
Max Harrick Shenk
9 July 2007
SINGLES
SINGLES by Max Harrick Shenk
My friend Shawn Kerivan said once that he thinks of his short story collection (Name The Boy) as being "an album." This made me think: if the collection constitutes an "album," then the individual stories must be singles, right?
As a longtime record collector, and a writer who's always looking for a way to get his work out to readers, it seemed like the logical way to get my stories out to people while I worked to get my novel published was to "release singles:" print mini-chapbooks of individual stories and put them out in places where people read (cafes, libraries, book shops, etc).
Thus: SINGLES. They look like a 45 (sort of) but read like a story. Each one is a short story or an excerpt from one of my longer works. Each one comes in an authentic vintage 45-rpm sleeve. (Whoopee.) Just enough reading to get you through a cup of coffee and whet your appetite for... the album!
Five different SINGLES are available right now: two bucks each (postage included) or $8.00 for all five.
FLIP!
12-year-old Scott Perry can't deal with the shock of long hair that keeps falling into his eyes, and Brian Pressley can't deal with the fact that Scott has his eyes on his best friend Margo LeDoux.
ANYTIME YOU WANT
A father tries to answer his toddler's questions about death and dying.
STUPID SISSY SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL
A 13-year-old girl isn't allowed to play little league baseball, but refuses to play "stupid sissy softball," either... until...
MY FIRST, MY LAST, MY ONLY CIGARETTE
Two junior high girls find a pack of Virginia Slims in the bathroom at a basketball game. If they try one, will they get hooked for life?
SIX FIFTY SEVEN
A boy wants to get his best friend a copy of the Beach Boys' ENDLESS SUMMER for her birthday... problem is, it costs $6.35, and he's only got $5.57.
MORE SINGLES COMING SOON!
TO ORDER in the USA:
* By mail: send $2.00 for each SINGLE you wish to order (or $8.00 for all five) to Max Shenk; 1375 Lower Road; Plainfield, VT; 05667
* Online: same price as above, but send your payment via Paypal to maxshenk@yahoo.com. Be sure to include your mailing address.
* Outside the USA: please email me for info.
Given that this is the US Mail we're dealing with, please allow 2 weeks for delivery.
My friend Shawn Kerivan said once that he thinks of his short story collection (Name The Boy) as being "an album." This made me think: if the collection constitutes an "album," then the individual stories must be singles, right?
As a longtime record collector, and a writer who's always looking for a way to get his work out to readers, it seemed like the logical way to get my stories out to people while I worked to get my novel published was to "release singles:" print mini-chapbooks of individual stories and put them out in places where people read (cafes, libraries, book shops, etc).
Thus: SINGLES. They look like a 45 (sort of) but read like a story. Each one is a short story or an excerpt from one of my longer works. Each one comes in an authentic vintage 45-rpm sleeve. (Whoopee.) Just enough reading to get you through a cup of coffee and whet your appetite for... the album!
Five different SINGLES are available right now: two bucks each (postage included) or $8.00 for all five.
FLIP!
12-year-old Scott Perry can't deal with the shock of long hair that keeps falling into his eyes, and Brian Pressley can't deal with the fact that Scott has his eyes on his best friend Margo LeDoux.
ANYTIME YOU WANT
A father tries to answer his toddler's questions about death and dying.
STUPID SISSY SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL
A 13-year-old girl isn't allowed to play little league baseball, but refuses to play "stupid sissy softball," either... until...
MY FIRST, MY LAST, MY ONLY CIGARETTE
Two junior high girls find a pack of Virginia Slims in the bathroom at a basketball game. If they try one, will they get hooked for life?
SIX FIFTY SEVEN
A boy wants to get his best friend a copy of the Beach Boys' ENDLESS SUMMER for her birthday... problem is, it costs $6.35, and he's only got $5.57.
MORE SINGLES COMING SOON!
TO ORDER in the USA:
* By mail: send $2.00 for each SINGLE you wish to order (or $8.00 for all five) to Max Shenk; 1375 Lower Road; Plainfield, VT; 05667
* Online: same price as above, but send your payment via Paypal to maxshenk@yahoo.com. Be sure to include your mailing address.
* Outside the USA: please email me for info.
Given that this is the US Mail we're dealing with, please allow 2 weeks for delivery.
