I'm an Amazon Author: The Big Book Seller Has Given Me a Window in its Mega-Store

 

I am an "Amazon author." This and a nickel, as folks used to say, will get you on the subway. I'm not sure what the subway costs these days (in my city, or yours), but it's probably a lot more. And I'm hoping that a little exposure by a GREAT BIG COMPANY will gain me a few readers.

The opportunity to provide a "bio" on my author's site elicited this confession about the origins of "House Stories," my new book of linked short stories published by Adelaide Books of NYC:

The book’s Southern Connecticut setting, the main characters and some of the stories are based on my own experiences as a recent Yale grad with absolutely no desire to fit into “the real world,” yet needing, like almost everyone else, to make some dough.

Here's the link Author's Page

Amazon, of course, also posts "House Stories" for sale, in a paperback or ebook edition, on its own page. 

Here's the link to the book House Stories  

So far, I am delighted to report -- and grateful to the Amazon readers who have given the book all stars. 

Here's the reader's review that I like best:

"I could not resist the urge to begin this review with the expression “Bravo!” While certainly deserving of this time-honored collective acknowledgment of an outstanding literary performance, more importantly, Robert Knox’s linked short stories struck me as a collected work of profound literary and personal bravery.

"The stories unfold over a period of two intensely social and politically charged years bridging the end of the drug-fueled late sixties through the dawning of the paradoxical early seventies. With brutal honesty and poignant narration, we meet the “us,” a rolling cast of thinkers, artists, dreamers, schemers, and doers who shared or found an affinity with others in the Whitney Road farmhouse in southern Connecticut, each of whom Bob reveals with a depth of meticulous attention to the nuances of physical and metaphysical observations as good or better than the reader will find anywhere in contemporary literature. The dialogue and surrounding narrative context: crisp, clear and authentic, often embraced the poetic. Tear-provoking poetic."

Of course I like it -- what's not to like? 

And this one as well. 

"A wonderful collection of linked stories, emotionally insightful, politically astute, gorgeously written!"

If you get a copy of "House Stories: and like what you read, please don't hesitate to join my book's pool of reviewers. Just jump right in -- so far the water's warm. 

My New Book of Linked Short Stories Is Out: Here's What the Publisher Says About It

 

Adelaide Books announces the release of the collection of short stories House Stories

New York, NY – ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by novelist and Boston Globe correspondent Robert Knox, House Stories, hitting stores everywhere this month and available online.

 "Bob Knox has a unique ability to tap into the zeitgeist of the time, to show us not only who we are, but who we might become." – Patry Francis, author of The Orphans of Race Point and All the Children Are Home.

The House of the book’s title is a Connecticut commune, circa 1970. The youthful characters are of the era too, stumbling out of post-adolescence into early adulthood, drugged, disorderly, erotically dazed.  Finding their way through relationships, commitments, the Vietnam war, and looming adult responsibilities, the characters struggle to hold onto their visions of an alternative way of living, while frequently making a mess of things.

“The narrator, looking back on the time and place, links the stories with a voice that is thoughtful and therefore honest. He can describe events precisely, such as a fire that nearly consumes the house—'...a demon of smoke and flame dividing its power, sending smoke up from two sources’—or nail what doomed an early marriage in a pointed epigram—'everything, it turns out when you’re married, comes down to finances.’” – Robert Wexelblatt, author of The Thirteenth Studebaker, Petites Suites, and Hsi-wei Tales.

House Stories can be purchased online from Amazon and also from the Adelaide Books website. Here are the links: Amazon House Stories

Adelaide House Stories

Robert Knox is the author of "Suosso's Lane," a novel based on the notorious Sacco and Vanzetti case, a contributing editor for the poetry journal Verse-Virtual, and a correspondent for the Boston Globe. Following the publication of “Suosso’s Lane,” he spoke widely at regional public libraries, historical societies, museums, book stores and book groups.

As a short fiction writer, he was selected as a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship and his story "Lost" was excerpted on the council's website. His stories have been published by Words With Jam, The Tishman Review, Lunch Ticket, and Unlikely Stories, among other journals. His poetry book “Gardeners Do It With their Hands Dirty” was nominated for a Massachusetts Best Book Award. Another novel, "Karpa Talesman," was chosen as the winner of a competition for a novel of speculative fiction and will be published by Hidden River Arts.