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Sparling

  1. @chough01 Sure. I'll watch for it.
  2. @chough01 I agree. And those are two things I love, so I'm glad it comes through.
  3. "...a love letter to Northern Michigan & the railroads that wind through it." New review of WIRE TO WIRE. bit.ly/K30cTZ Thanks!
  4. @mordyth Love that idea. I'll say hi for you.
  5. Somehow I've convinced my son to spend 8 days on the road with me in Michigan. It's the WIRE TO WIRE book tour Part 2. bit.ly/JCbweN
  6. Last night was prom night in Lake Oswego. Today I saw a pair of red, white, and blue panties on a fire hydrant.
  7. Working out my grudges by putting them into my new manuscript. #thegoodlife #dontcrossme
  8. Your cat broke my bong. (Today's best overheard dialogue.)
  9. For the next few weeks, Powells.com is offering WIRE TO WIRE for 30% off. Or as I like to say, 70% on. bit.ly/M4sy5U
  10. @oregonianmusic Interest in the Lions should never be mocked. It's a cruel world sometimes...
  11. Heads up: The Michigan Notable Book award will get your bag searched at the airport. Upside: TSA workers mildly impressed. #MichLit
  12. Heading to Detroit. Will be bummed if Kanye West interrupts while I'm accepting my Michigan book award.
  13. If you have a metal plate in your head, please vote for WIRE TO WIRE as the Best New Novel here. Also if you don't. bit.ly/H5tXbT
  14. Thanks, Ann! RT @mordyth: Just finished @Sparling's intriguing, disturbing, surprising, perfectly balanced first novel #WIRETOWIRE. Read it.
  15. Reading something old & something new at the library in Sucker Lake...I mean, Lake Oswego, tonight at 7 pm. Stop by! bit.ly/HNzHq9
  16. Thanks, Ann! RT @mordyth Currently reading Scott Sparling's excellent #WIRETOWIRE. Find it and read it.
  17. Literary prizes are useful hallucinations that we willingly agree to believe. No award kinda kills that.
  18. yfrog.com/4jj5ilj Reading @PublicAssembly in Brooklyn tonite at 9 w/ Bernice McFadden & Eliza Factor. via fro.gy/1v9kf
  19. If you're in Brooklyn Tuesday night, come hear Bernice McFadden, Eliza Factor & me read at Public Assembly @ 9. Animal Farm reading series.