cheryl snell | cheryl snell
Apr.07.2011
Some short stories tell simple tales to immediate effect. Others draw the reader deeper, leaving a lingering taste on the tongue or haunting music in the air. Cheryl Snell's tales in this collection belong to that second type. Bounded at both ends by the song of a harmonica, the author creates...
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Mar.28.2011
Interviewers always seem to want to know: How much of Shiva’s Arms is autobiographical? Here are a few ways I've answered the question ---
1) Everything and nothing – the irony of literary fiction since Flaubert ! The set up, unsuitable American bride marries Hindu NRI , parallels my life. But...
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Mar.21.2011
Merits of literary fiction versus genre fiction are still hotly debated in dorm rooms and groups with names like My Genre Fiction Can Kick Your LitFic's Ass. Accusations hurled from practitioner and aficionado alike are cliches by now -- pretentious language goes up against formulaic plots and...
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Mar.17.2011
This is a sequence I'm developing---
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Why do you go? Last time, she twisted your rings until you noticed hers were gone. Stolen right out from under her.
You want me to see you are still needed.You want me to promise that none of thiswill happen to you.
They make her sit with all the...
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Mar.04.2011
A mother as Minnie Mouse, a haircut as barometer of change; the origin of red Chinese slippers, a friend who announces “Every man is a shoe fetishist.” Image functions as symbol in Deborah Batterman’s first book of beautifully balanced, psychologically complex stories. Written mostly from the POV...
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Feb.26.2011
Five of my books were published by traditional publishers. When the last one gave up the ghost a month after releasing my book, I decided to reissue it under my own imprint. Since then, I've put out more work, most recently a suite of linked short stories. The idea for that came with a package of...
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Jan.24.2011
A reader who had just finished Rescuing Ranu, asked me this question, and I thought I'd share my answer, which rambles on a bit.
Why did Nela adopt Ranu?
At first, she only wants to leave the girl better than she found her. But Nela's sense of right and wrong is too highly developed for half...
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Jan.10.2011
,I'm climbing on the e-book bandwagon and offering a suite of my stories free for download at Smashwords. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/36763#download Well,the magazines that published these stories didn't pay me, either.
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Dec.15.2010
Before it all goes ^poof^ I should tell you that my novel, Rescuing Ranu, is # 10 on the Amazon Kindle bestsellers list in the category of mathematics research. Or at least it was when I started typing this.
It's nice to be a big fish in niche pond for a moment...
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Dec.09.2010
"Kumar hates all business" declares the beautiful Jaya. We are in my kitchen, heads bowed over a bowl of okra. It's the second day of my sister-in-law's first visit. She and her husband have come so far after so long to see me for themselves: the blonde American who waylaid their...
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