NY Times: Marilyn Stasio reviews Jack WAKES UP!
That's right. This is the sound of JACK WAKES UP hitting the New York Times Book Review:
"the storytelling has vitality and a spirit of rebellion, giving us hope for the future of all those bad girls with dirty faces and bad boys on bikes."
That's what SHE said! Among a few other things! Have a look at the full article here! And for my shared paragraph with Maggie Estep, read further:
Somebody’s got to defend all those grown-ups who were once naughty boys and girls, and Maggie Estep and Seth Harwood are perfect for the job. Estep champions outlaws and outcasts like the title character of ALICE FANTASTIC (Akashic, paper, $15.95), a racetrack handicapper who lives in Queens with a “trailer trash dog” named Candy and a criminally clumsy boyfriend named Clayton. Harwood has a soft spot for losers like Jack Palms, a one-hit movie star who grabs his chance to get back in the game in JACK WAKES UP (Three Rivers, paper, $13.95) when a San Francisco hustler asks him to play the role of a man-about-town for some visiting gangsters on a drug buy. Neither author seems to give a hoot about plot logistics, and both Alice and Jack allow themselves to be swept up by events. But in these two books, the storytelling has vitality and a spirit of rebellion, giving us hope for the future of all those bad girls with dirty faces and bad boys on bikes.
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Size doesn't matter.
...that's what SHE said.
Ok. On to the seriousness: Wow. If John Hart (last year's Edgar winner for Best Novel) and George Pelecanos (bigtime writer for The Wire, among other things) only rated one paragraph each, I can definitely be happy with getting in at all and see my shared paragraph with Maggie Estep as no slight!
Not to mention that Pelecanos and Hart each got the backside of Stasio's gun hand...