It’s one of those classic, absolutely reasonable questions—that is, alas, as impossible to answer briefly as the meaning of life. But I am asked it often. All novelists are. Where do your ideas come from? The glib answer—always offered with a smile—is this: “Macy’s.” The reality is that each of my 17 novels sprang from […]
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Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who are Friends, Just in from Bookpage — their review of “Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands.” Here it is, below, in its entirety. A thousand thanks to Bookpage and to Karen Ann Cullotta. Color me very grateful. All the best, Chris B. PS: The novel arrives on July 8. […]
Greetings! “Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands” doesn’t go on sale for a month. The novel is the story of Emily Shepard, a young girl trying to survive on the streets of Burlington, Vermont after a cataclysmic meltdown at Vermont’s lone nuclear plant. She’s a cutter, an Oxycontin addict, and an aspiring poet who reveres Emily […]
