G-MAN Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 If you're in the area: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwillson Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Wish I were closer, I'd come to the signing. We understand now why you haven't been here much lately!Wayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryinIN Posted November 30, 2011 Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 I wish I were closer (and Kristen Stewart was there). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 I'd love to wait in line for a signed copy!! Very cool, if I do say so myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted December 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 First local review: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Posted December 2, 2011 Report Share Posted December 2, 2011 I'm asking the wife for a copy for Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted December 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2011 I'm asking the wife for a copy for Christmas. Hope you enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 The signing and reading went well. Had about 20 people at the reading and sold a bunch of books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Cool - gave my wife all kinds of links to the books. She mentioned she never heard of you...I said: "...hang on, he'll be famous, I will claim I know him..." Naturally she said.."Yeah right" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted December 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 I just got an e-mail from someone in the Midwest who read A Death on the Wolf. I can't speak for other writers, but it's a letter like this from a reader that makes it all worthwhile.I spent a large part of yesterday and today reading "A Death on the Wolf" and wanted to write a note of thanks. Apart from a powerfully touching story I was deeply impressed, in fact several times to the point of astonishment, by the vivid descriptions and almost unbelievably natural dialog that you managed to conjure with just a few words. There were several pages that reminded me of Charles Dickens and his seemingly magical control of English. I believe you equalled him many times, and I really didn't think that possible. I spent part of several summers at my grandmother's and aunts' houses and I have never in my life felt those summers evoked as sensually as by your prose: I could actually smell my grandmother's kitchen, and that's only one of a dozen examples. Above all, the story moved me time and again, and more than once to tears. I've gone on too long. There are other things I could say about the book, but I've touched on some of the reasons that made me want to write to say thanks. Now I intend to read some of the other novels. Even -- which I doubt -- if I should not find them as ... enjoyable isn't the right word, for you don't really enjoy a story as somber as "A Death on the Wolf" -- well, even if they don't move me to that extent, it won't diminish one bit my admiration for your accomplishment with the book I just finished reading. It's one of the rare ones that will keep coming back to my mind time and again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryinIN Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Wow! That's a fine note to get. You should be proud. Few people ever get a book published, let alone a series, let alone being compared to Charles Dickens.And it's got an Auto-5 Browning in it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted December 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Wow! That's a fine note to get. You should be proud. Few people ever get a book published, let alone a series, let alone being compared to Charles Dickens.And it's got an Auto-5 Browning in it! Agreed, Barry. Every writer should be so lucky as to have his or her work affect someone so deeply. Here is the review this gentleman is posting online:A lot happened in the summer of 1969. Man first set foot on the moon. Hurricane Camille devastated large parts of the Gulf Coast states. Nelson Patrick Gody, of Bells Ferry, Mississippi, celebrated his 16th birthday and had things happen to him and around him that would change his life forever. The term "coming of age" is often overused -- but not here. This novel explores the bittersweet pleasure and agonizing distress of teen-age friendship and first love -- and the unfathomable menace of pure evil. I found the characterizations to be nothing short of astonishing. Until I read this story, I thought that only Charles Dickens had the seemingly magical gift of letting the reader, in a scant handful of words, seem actually to see the scene almost like a photograph, and of consistently presenting dialog so true to life that you'd think you were actually hearing the characters speak. Well, I now think that G. M. Frazier shares that talent, and very often to the same degree. Seldom have I encountered fictional characters who took on such vivid, three-dimensional life that, even without detailed descriptions, I felt I actually knew them. That's what happened in reading this book. Two or three times the exquisite exactness of Mr. Frazier's word choice actually left me breathless, with a "Yes! That's exactly right" reaction. The story itself is sometimes funny, often heart-rending, and just about impossible to put down. The descriptions of daily life are so bullseye perfect that time and again they took me back to my own childhood and teen years, now way over a half century past. I don't mind a bit saying that this book moved me to tears a dozen times. I hated like anything to leave some of the characters behind: I felt they were my friends by the book's end. I will definitely be reading "A Death on the Wolf" again. It is not apt to leave my mind -- ever. It's simply a wonder, and, I think, a great gift from a very talented writer. If you're disappointed by this book, I despair of knowing what one to suggest to you. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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