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Writer's Voice Spotlight: Patricia Ann McNair1 comment

watershedcsuc wrote 2 months ago: Patricia Ann McNair is the author of The Temple of Air, and will be reading from this debut collecti … more →

Tags: Chico, CSU, Patricia Ann McNair, Sabrina Derr, Watershed review, writer's voice

The Greatest Show ~ A National Short Story Month Recommendation

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: Did you know that May is National Short Story Month? Did you? Well, it is. And despite what publishe … more →

Tags: Blog Posts, National Short Story Month, american salvage, MICHAEL DOWNS, The Greatest Show, Olive Kitteridge, Society of Midland Authors

On Politeness (and its Absence) In A Writing Life

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: Years ago, when I was a recent graduate from the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Columbia College … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Elephant Rock Books, writing, Politeness, Publishing, Etiquette, Small Press

The Week that Was

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: A quick glimpse back at the week just passed:    MONDAY Work.   TUESDAY Interview by Aliso … more →

Tags: Blog Posts, On Making The Book, Things and Stuff, .:., Alison Cuddy, Bill Shunn, Emile Ferris, goodreads, Hanna Martine

Reading at The Stag, Hampstead, London ~ Thanks to Daunt Books

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: Philip Hartigan, my trusty photographer, uploaded this album of pictures from my reading at The Stag … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Travel, D.W. Wilson, Adam Marek, daunt books, K.J. Orr, The Stag

On Being a Colum Alum2 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: Today starts Columbia College Chicago’s Alumni Weekend, and I am delighted to be part of the event. … more →

Tags: Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Columbia College Chicago, Fiction Writing Department, Colum Alum, John Schultz, Betty Shiflett, Story Workshop, alumni weekend

The Pointer Sisters and Me ~ I'm So Excited!

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: Today is the day! Tonight I will read from THE TEMPLE OF AIR in front of friends and family and perh … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Women and children first, the pointer sisters, I'm so excited

On the Shelf with THE HELP

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago:   It would be hard to express how very exciting it is to see my book, THE TEMPLE OF AIR, in the … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Women and children first, The help!

The Whacky World Wide Web and A Book's Launch5 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: So a little less than one day in advance of the book launch of your debut story collection, you find … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, googling, goodreads, Bruv World, Ayn Rand, Book Launch

On Loneliness, Friends, Tweets, Circles, and THE BOOK6 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: I heard on NPR the other day that you can buy yourself followers on Twitter. True story. There is sp … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Family, Roger McNair, Alan Heathcock, wesley McNair, Melissa Luznicky-Garrett, Maxine Hong Kingston

A Small Place of Enchantment ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's View From the Keyboard4 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, View From the Keyboard, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Enchantment, Florida Artist Hall of Fame

And the Winner Is... Book Giveaway Part 32 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: We have a winner! JoAnne Ruvoli is an avid reader and a huge fan of short fiction (see, publishing w … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Book Giveaway, gebbie, book giveaway, JoAnne Ruvoli, woodward, salinger

YOU ALREADY MAY HAVE WON! ~ Book Giveaway5 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: My book, The Temple of Air, is slated to be launched at Women and Children First on September 9, 201 … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Book Giveaway, Women and children first, book giveaway

A Place on the Shelf ~ On Personal Libraries and a Civil Union6 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: We were at a party on Saturday, celebrating the civil union of two friends, Kathie and Nikki, (congr … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, John McNally, Troublemakers, Civil Union, Windy City Queer, american salvage, American Skin

"The Bones of the Book Glimmer..." ~ A Review from TNB8 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 1 year ago: I have just found out that The Temple of Air was reviewed in The Nervous Breakdown. Such a stellar r … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, the nervous breakdown, Women and children first, Leah Tallon, Elephant Rock Books, Winesburg

Since we've started this conversation...

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 2 years ago: Our short story conversationalists have had a few rather lovely things happen in their writing lives … more →

Tags: Blog Posts, Things and Stuff, Conversations, Vanessa Gebbie, Gina Frangello, gerard woodward, Dennis McFadden, Hart's Grove, Pablo Picasso

Limited Copies of The Temple of Air Available at Story Week Festival of Writers3 comments

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 2 years ago: So one of the groovy things about working with a small, independent press like Elephant Rock Books i … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts, Story Week Festival of Writers, Lee Nagan, Melissa C. Lucar

Just a Taste

Patricia Ann McNair wrote 2 years ago: Elephant Rock Books just put a little taste of The Temple of Air on the books page of their website. … more →

Tags: On Making The Book, Blog Posts


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