“Award-winning author/playwright Peter J. Stavros offers timely understanding of how character is steeled or bent through accumulation of numbing nights, dark disappointments and occasional emotional escapes.” This is an excerpt from T.E. Lyons’ review of my chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore, which appears in this week’s LEO Weekly. Click on the link for the full review, and remember, Zoom reading tomorrow (Nov. 12 @ 6 PM ET)!
Chapbook
Chapbook
Happy Wednesday! I’ve included below the Facebook event page and Zoom registration information for my book reading on November 12 @ 6 PM ET. Hope you can join me – there’ll be a Q&A session at the end!
https://www.facebook.com/events/3350176921704898/
https://uindy.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcO-vrDIjHN3vgTK0fU6O_9XC2dgoynad
Fiction
Hello everyone, and Happy Friday! Here’s an afternoon snack (or maybe a morning or evening snack, depending on when and where you’re reading this) to get your weekend going: the opening paragraph of my new novella, Tryouts – inspired by my attempt to make the varsity basketball team when I was a freshman in high school. It was named a Finalist in this year’s Trifecta Competition sponsored by the Iron Horse Literary Review. My plan is to publish it as a chapbook this spring, hopefully to coincide with the college basketball tournament. Enjoy!
There must have been forty of us, maybe fifty, kids of all shapes and sizes, crammed into that stuffy gym after class, the place reeking of sweat and dirty socks and farts, chattering, fidgeting, roughhousing. It was chaos on that Monday afternoon at three-forty-five, the first day of basketball tryouts, all of us vying for only eleven spots on the varsity team. Some clearly wouldn’t make it, some clearly would. And the rest, like me, fell somewhere in-between.
Announcement
Just a quick follow-up on my post from Friday. I now have a date and time for the Zoom reading of my chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore. It’ll be November 12 from 6-7 ET. I’ll post the log-in information and more details when I get them from the publisher. Have a great week!
Chapbook
Exciting news! I’m planning on doing a Zoom reading of my chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore, sometime during the first of November. When I get the date and time, I’ll of course post that here. In the meantime, thanks again to everyone for all the positive comments and reviews. Happy Friday!
Writing
Just wanted to drop a note to thank everyone for the support and positive feedback I’m getting on my chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore – and to let y’all know that fresh writing is on the way, including a play I’ve been workshopping called, appropriately enough, “Social Distancing.” Stay safe and healthy!
Chapbook
Chapbook
Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore is now widely available, including on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Goodreads (and your local bookstore might be able to order it for you too). Some links are included on the Chapbook page. Also, I am now a Goodreads author, which means, among other things, that you can log on and ask me questions about my chapbook, my writing or just whatever (and also check out the new dramatic picture!) – just don’t make your questions too difficult 😉
Chapbook
Here it is everyone – my chapbook is now available on Amazon. Happy Friday!
Chapbook
Anyone interested in reading an interview I did about the inspiration behind my new chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore, and what I want readers to take away from this collection can find it here.
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