The Chalk Artist wins the Massachusetts Book Award from the Massachusetts Book Council. https://www.massbook.org/mass-book-awards
My story “FAQs” is short-listed for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Here is the announcement of the shortlist: https://shortstoryaward.co.uk/articles/view/180
My story “FAQs” is long-listed for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award
Review of The Chalk Artist in The New York Times Book Review. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/books/review/chalk-artist-allegra-goodman.html
My “By the Book” column in The New York Times Book Review. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/books/review/allegra-goodman-by-the-book.html?mcubz=1
Review of The Chalk Artist in The Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-4585758/LITERARY-FICTION.html
Interview on art, narrative, and belief in Commonweal. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/belief-does-not-embarrass-me
Travel & Leisure “Best Books to Read on Vacation This Summer” http://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/books/best-summer-beach-reads
Review of The Chalk Artist in The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/the-chalk-artist/524517/
First review of The Chalk Artist. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4000-6987-3
You can order a signed copy of The Chalk Artist from Porter Square Books. Use this handy link: http://www.portersquarebooks.com/signed-chalk-artist-hardcover
Writing a new novel. I’ll keep you posted!
Page proofs are done. Time to start a new book.
The Chalk Artist will be published in the UK by Atlantic Books.
Off to production!
The art director is starting to work on my book jacket. I’m excited.
I’m carrying around my 400 page copy-edited novel in a large box and working on it all the time. Yes, I’m old school!
My novel is coming back from the copy editor on Feb 1. I’ll have three weeks to make all the corrections. Let’s see how that goes!
Just finished a new short story. It was such a pleasure to write something so . . . little.