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New Cuba travel essay out
New Cuba travel essay out
Pleased to report the appearance of a new travel essay, “Cuba After Fidel,” out in Wanderlust: The Best of 2019 Anthology.
Here are the opening paragraphs
“At dusk on the evening of November 29, 2016, three days after the announcement of Fidel Castro’s death, I set off on foot with a small group of friends to Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución for a memorial rally attended by perhaps half a million…
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Two new reviews for A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
Two new reviews for A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
So pleased to see that positive reviews for the collection continue to trickle in. The two most recent are from the Midwest Book Review and Trout Fisherman, a magazine based in Great Britain. Both reviews are excerpted below. You can read more excerpts and follow links to ALL known reviews here.
“This collection of stories by Tim Weed is grounded in the specificity of its settings, all of which…
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Literary Roadhouse Podcast: Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever.” A heartfelt thanks to Anais Concepción, the smart & effervescent host of Literary Roadhouse, a weekly podcast on a public-domain short story.
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“Diamondback Mountain” out at Craft Literary Happy to report the release of "Diamondback Mountain," the final previously unpublished story in the fiction collection…
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Radio interview about The Round Schoolhouse and the Legend of Thunderbolt
Radio interview about The Round Schoolhouse and the Legend of Thunderbolt
Very enjoyable conversation this morning with Olga Peters of the Green Mountain Mornings radio show on WKVT Radio 100.03 FM about the local landmark and the historical characters that inspired my novel-in-progress, The Confession of Michael Martin, one of fifteen works selected for the 2018 long list of the Historical Novel Society’s New Novel Award. HNS describes it as “A novel of adventure,…
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New short fiction out A freshly-minted short story (one of the first to appear post-A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing…
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Return Engagement (with photos!): Tierra del Fuego & Southern Patagonia
Return Engagement (with photos!): Tierra del Fuego & Southern Patagonia
On this key midterm election day in the USA, I’m so thrilled to be heading back (after voting, of course) to one of my favorite corners of planet Earth, an area of vast and stunning wilderness encompassing the islands, waters, and mountain ranges of the southernmost reaches of the South American continent.
We’ll be stopping over for a few days in Buenos Aires, but the real adventure begins in…
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A deep dive on place, writing, and voice on The Rocky Mountain Writer podcast
A deep dive on place, writing, and voice on The Rocky Mountain Writer podcast
What a pleasure it was to spend part of a recent afternoon having this wide-ranging conversation with Colorado novelist Mark Stevens on The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer podcast.
We discussed many topics of interest to writers and readers, including A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing, travel and fiction, Ecuadorian volcanoes, Venezuela’s Orinoco basin, Eastern Cuba, fiction vs autobiography,…
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Audiobook release, new Cuba dates & other news
Audiobook release, new Cuba dates & other news
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
A quick update on books and travel, and wishing you all a happy fall!
For anyone who likes to listen as you drive, work, or relax, I’m pleased to inform you that A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing is now available as an audiobook on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
Everything you might want to know about the collection can be found here; I include a quick summary and…
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Novel-in-Progress Long-listed for Historical Novel Society New Novel Award Pleased to note that the Historical Novel Society has named my novel-in-progress, The Confession of Michael Martin…
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Collection is a Finalist for the American Fiction Awards Honored, humbled, and very pleased to note that A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing…
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Collection shortlisted for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award
Collection shortlisted for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award
Pleased and honored to announce that A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing has made the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Short List, and received an Honorable Mention in the General Fiction category!
From the prize website: “The Eric Hoffer Award was founded at the start of the 21st century (with permission from the Eric Hoffer Estate) to honor freethinking writers and independent books of…
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Main Street Rag Reviews A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
Main Street Rag Reviews A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
Very much enjoyed the new review of the collection by Evan Williams in the Spring 2018 edition of the venerable literary magazine Main Street Rag. It’s not available on-line, but here’s an excerpt:
“Each story is an exercise in high adventure. Cessna prop planes, dugout canoes, rattletrap sports cars, and hipped-out VW vans transport characters across America to Grateful Dead concerts, and up the…
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Paperback release, Douro River, Eastern Cuba, and other news
Paperback release, Douro River, Eastern Cuba, and other news
Dear friends,
It’s been a year since the release of A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing in hardcover. This is just a quick post to let you know that the paperback launches today! It’s a nice little book I think, and I’m pleased to report that since the hardcover release there’s been plenty of good news. It’s been shortlisted for two international book awards (one of which is still in…
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A few scenes from the Pearl of the Antilles
A few scenes from the Pearl of the Antilles
Hey everyone,
Thought I’d share this link to a few photos of seascapes, landscapes, and cityscapes from the recent Brattleboro Museum & Art Center Cuba trip! These were taken in Havana, Trinidad, Cienega de Zapata National Park, and the Bay of Pigs.
If anyone’s interested in exploring ways to get down to the island in the next year or so, don’t hesitate to click here and/or get in touch.
Tim
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New piece on rule-breaking for writers up at GrubWrites
New piece on rule-breaking for writers up at GrubWrites
“There’s an unwritten rule that dreams have no place in fiction. Perhaps you’re aware of it. No? Then maybe you haven’t taken enough workshops. It’s pretty high on the list of fiction-writing no-nos.”
Click here to read my thoughts on why fictional dreams AREN’T actually forbidden, and other thoughts on why breaking the rules is an essential skill for writers to do . . .
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Two new reviews for A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
Two new reviews for A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing
Great to see these two recent reviews of A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing. (If you’re interested, I’ve collected excerpts from all known reviews so far here, along with links.)
The first is from Big Sky Journal, a “high-end, general interest magazine that captures the full range of culture and lifestyle in the Northern Rockies,” in a feature called “Reading the West”:
“Weed’s stories . . .…
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