SUSAN TEPPER’s WHAT DRIVES MEN is #177 in the never-ending series called INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION

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****SUSAN TEPPER’s WHAT DRIVES MEN is #177 in the never-ending series called INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION where the Chris Rice Cooper Blog (CRC) focuses on one specific excerpt from a fiction genre and how that fiction writer wrote that specific excerpt.  All INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION links are at the end of this piece

Name of fiction work? And were there other names you considered that you would like to share with us? What Drives Men is the title of my latest fiction, a road novel.  It had an earlier title: Where You Can Find It.

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? It started out as a short story written about 7 years ago.  Then each time I looked at it, I wrote more, and then realized I had a novel on my hands.  I played with it for about 7 years and last summer I decided ‘enough is enough’ and sent it to a publisher who did two other books of mine.

Where did you do most of your writing for this fiction work?  And please describe in detail. All the writing of this book was done on both my laptop and PC.  I have a small writing room, 9 by 9, off my back hallway and convenient to the powder room and kitchen.  So I could write, then run in and cook a bit, then go back and write.  I write wherever I can.  

       

       I wrote some of it while sitting next to my mother’s hospital bed when she was ill.  She was a poet and loved hearing what I’d written.  It was a nice thing for both of us and broke the dreary hospital routine.  It also calmed me because I was so worried about her.  I think in a way I was trying to entertain her, and she had a zany humor, like I do.  We both laughed like crazy over these characters.  So the book is pretty zany.  
          But I don’t outline, or pre-think the work.  I don’t have a special routine except that I do write almost every day.  When this material grew into a ‘novel’ the first winter I was working on it, the weather happened to be very cold and icy.  The plot seemed to move quickly in that direction, starting out during pleasant fall weather and going straight into the dead of winter.  I had so much fun with these characters that I didn’t want to let go of the MS.  But eventually, it was the right time.  I’ve come to believe that timing is everything.

What were your writing habits while writing this work- did you drink something as you wrote, listen to music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? Music, never. It gets in the way for me.  I drink tea, lots of tea.  I’m English at heart from living there during my first marriage.  I like silence, but my dog did bother me periodically because he likes a lot of hugs.  And his persistence generally rules.

Please include just one excerpt and include page numbers as reference.  This one excerpt can be as short or as long as you prefer.                                                   

Prologue
Should I come with you he thought of asking then knew it would sound idiotic.  Maggie.  Magpie.  Good ole Mags. Marching room to room shoving clothes and other things in suitcases.  He watched her put her address book and little tin recipe box into an already jammed bag; kneeling on its canvas side in order to get it zipped.  Maggie was strong – he had to give her that.  Russell followed behind, room by room, refusing to help.  Why should he?   None of it was his idea.  Not that she’d asked for help.  Not her.  When she was done, bags zipped, coat on, she phoned for a taxi. Dark-blue suitcases like sentries standing guard in the kitchen. Russell stood in the hall, just past the archway. They waited it out in silence.  When the taxi finally got there its horn blared.  Russell stepped further back into the shadows.  Let her leave all alone, he thought.  Let her wonder what will become of me.  He heard the back door slam.  Went to the living room and sat on the sofa.  He heard the taxi start up then pull away, down the long hill of their driveway.  He could feel the taxi driver's foot on the brake pedal all the way down to the road.  Hesitation he thought; hoping. The taxi noise fainter and fainter.  After that Russell felt nothing.             

                                           

                                                               CHAPTER 1

                                                                  Raging

                                    

Playful he was thinking a moment earlier, watching the squirrel scramble up the trunk of a big oak.  Fall had come early and they were charging everywhere.  A lot of his backyard torn up from their buried nuts. 

            Part way up the tree it must've decided to make an about-face, throwing itself squarely onto his neck.  I’m going to die had crashed through Russell’s mind as the squirrel dug deep into his throat.        

            After he passed out, then came to, he was unable to offer any specific information.  Some people had gathered around.  A few women with baby strollers and a police officer.  The women presumably from this neighborhood.  On his back in the street Russell couldn't recall having seen them before.  Two blonds.  A third woman who looked darkly foreign.  He thought he smelled a type of oil or perhaps even incense coming off her.  Russell inhaled.  Then her odor seemed taken by the breeze (cool-ish with an underlying warmth was how he would later describe that day).

            The police officer, pad and pen poised for writing, stared down at him.  He thought the officer looked young. 

            As for the sky – as viewed beyond dappled leaves not yet fallen from that tree; that particular tree; thereafter to be known by Russell as the squirrel tree – the sky that day just happened to be a pure raging blue. 

            "It bit me," he said.  "It jumped out of that tree and it bit me."

            The women murmured.  The young police officer cleared his throat.  "Sir, there is no blood."

            "What!"          

            He tried sitting up but the officer pressed him back down.

            "Don't try and move," he told Russell.

            "Well if there's no blood... I don't understand. I felt it sink its teeth in my neck."   

            "Maybe it was the claws," said one of the women. 

            "Even if it was the claws you'd still have blood," said another. 

            "Blood, claws, what's the difference!"  This third voice less flat than the others who sounded like they ironed their vocal cords. 

            Russell couldn't stand that dry, offhand way these younger generation women spoke.  As if some emotion, a little feeling in their tone, might somehow jeopardize their position in the world.  Though what that might be, he had no idea.      

            "With the rising real estate market this has become a dangerous neighborhood!" said the perkier voice.

            Dangerous!  Russell tried sitting up again only to be shoved down. “Did you check for gunshot wounds?”

            “Ladies step away!” barked the police officer.

            “Law enforcement in this town is practically non-existent."  This from the flat voice Russell recognized as suggesting the claws. 

            "Yeah, the cops did zilch when my xenon headlights were stolen right off my driveway," said another one.

            "OK, Ladies!  There'll be no more chat."  The police officer frowning down on him! "Not another word until the ambulance gets here."

            Ambulance!  Russell felt himself growing chilled, though it had been a nice enough day when he started his walk into town – close to sixty would be his guess, if he were a betting man.  Not to mention all that sunshine pouring down. Underneath him, the blacktop surface felt cold, almost slimy.  Crushed gravel set into wet tar then rolled.  Messy he was thinking, bits of loose gravel sticking to his palms. All summer his mother had been warning him.  Trouble ahead the old woman kept saying.  Russell assumed she was turning senile.  And that gypsy woman, too – always waving the red flag – that Clara.  The one his brother Stan dated up through Labor Day.  She had mentioned some kind of trouble.  Naturally Russell paid no attention. 

            "I'm all alone in the world," he said when the police officer asked about his next of kin.

            The women murmured again.  Pleasantly harmonic, he thought; somewhat surprised.  He shifted on his back favoring his left side, certain the sweetest voice must belong to the darkly foreign one he'd glimpsed briefly – naming her Fig.  Sweet Fig.  Though he'd barely seen her, that didn't stop him picturing her breasts, ripe, with their dark nipples.   

            "I wonder if it's carrying rabies," said the flat voice.

            Russell stiffened clutching his neck.

            "Sir, I wouldn't do that if I were you. You don't want to touch the wound."     

            "You said there isn't any blood!"

            "True enough.  Still it's best to be careful with these things.  No point risking infection."

            The young officer had a frank expression, innocent-seeming.  Innocent of the worst sorts of things policemen see regularly.  "How old are you, Son?"  he asked the police officer. 

            In December Russell would turn fifty.

            The officer bristled swiping at his nose with the back of his hand.  "I won't have that kind of talk."          

            Russell sighed.  OK, he thought. OK.

            Staring up into the squirrel tree he wondered what had become of it?  Small, gray, furry.  Gray, he thought again.  Enigmatic.  Squirrels everywhere.  Dashing across roofs, along gutters and fences.  The neighborhood overflowing. 

            “Sir, I’m going to have to frisk you,” the officer said.

            “What!”

            “Just lie still and it’ll be over in a moment.”  He knelt on the ground patting Russell down.

            “But I don’t have a weapon!”

            The officer stood.  “Sir, I can see that all is A-OK.” 

            A-OK?  Russell stared up at him.  Has the whole world gone mad?

            When the ambulance finally got there, and the ambulance workers each took a turn looking at his neck, they told Russell he could go home.  "Stay there," said the burly-looking guy.  "Stay inside.  And for Pete's sake lock your door."                              

            Everyone laughed.  Everyone, that is, except Russell. By then he was on his feet – the skinnier ambulance guy having given him the nod.  He glanced over at the women then brushed off the seat of his pants.  "Thank god," he said. 

            From one of the strollers a baby began squalling.  Sweet Fig turned out deeply disappointing.  Instead of earthy, she was more the short squat type. On equal ground with them now, he decided Sweet Fig did not sound remotely foreign but more from the borough of Queens.  In the baggy brown sweatshirt she looked bulky.  Then he contemplated the sex of the squirrel that ripped him.  He’d seen some covert ops go down in Desert Storm.  Turning the possibilities over in his mind.  Squirrel, he decided.

            "It attacked me for no good reason," Russell said.

            "Go home and sleep it off."  And the young police officer gave him a light, friendly swat on the back.

            The women laughed again.  That started the ambulance guys going, everyone getting their rocks off at his expense. 

            "Fine," said Russell.  "Fine.  I’ve seen a few things myself.  In The Gulf.”  

            “Shrimp?” said the bulky guy.

            “No, The Gulf War.” He paused, waiting.  Something. Anything.  Nobody uttered a word.  Then he caught some movement high in the tree – quick, darting, and poof it was gone. 

Prologue on page 3 and Chapter One on pages 5 through 8.

Why is this excerpt so emotional for you as a writer to write?  And can you describe your own emotional experience of writing this specific excerpt? I feel empathy for people who are deserted by a loved one for no apparent reason that they can understand.  It happens to all of us, therefore it’s a universal kind of sadness.  It certainly has happened to me, in various ways, and I don’t think it gets any easier as time goes on.  Pain is pain.  In this book it happens to my protagonist, Russell.  When people are deserted, it tends to undermine their self-esteem which is a terrible thing.  It can lead to all sorts of bad choices.  As a fiction writer it’s my job to figure things out on the page.  Not in advance, but as I write and move along in the story.  If you figure out plot in advance, you’re writing with one arm tied behind your back.  So much comes forth in spontaneous writing that would never even enter your mind if you outline a plot.  So, spontaneous writing presents the reader with a basket full of emotions.  A novel is like a huge cornucopia of fruits: sweet, bitter, mushy, tart, dry, juicy, bland.  It’s all part of the mix of a really good story. 

Were there any deletions from this excerpt that you can share with us? And can you please include a photo of your marked up rough drafts of this excerpt. I did so many drafts, probably 50 or so full drafts over the 7 year period.  I didn’t save them, but replaced with the new material as I went along.  I generally don’t save, I don’t see the point.  Your mind has re-decided things, so I stick to the new material and move along with it.  I will add that it should always be fun to write.  It should be a joyous outlet for the writer.  If the writer is struggling, something is off.  If it’s not fun, why bother?  Life is fraught with difficulties.  Art should ebb and flow as naturally as the oceans.

Susan Tepper has been a writer for twenty years and is the author of nine published books.  She writes in all genres, with stories, poems, interviews, essays and opinion columns published extensively worldwide. 

An award-winning author, Tepper has been nominated eighteen times for the Pushcart Prize, has received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for the novel ‘What May Have Been’ (currently being adapted for the stage), Second Place Winner in Story/South Million Writers Award, 7th Place Winner in the Francis Ford Coppola sponsored Zoetrope Contest for the Novel (2003), Best Story of 17 Years of Vestal Review, a nomination for NPR’s Selected Shorts Series, and other honors. 

     Additionally, Tepper has been an editor at Wilderness House Literary Review and Istanbul Literary Review. For seven years she was panel moderator of the SMALL PRESS PANEL at Marymount Manhattan College Writers Conference which eventually morphed into the Hunter College Writers Conference. FIZZ her reading series at KGB Bar, NYC, ran for a decade, and showcased the talents of our literary stars as well as many first time authors.

     Before settling down to the writing life, she worked as an actor, singer, flight attendant (left), marketing manager, overseas tour guide, TV producer, interior decorator, rescue worker and more. She blames it all on a high-interest range. Tepper is a native New Yorker. 

https://www.susantepper.com/

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Women’s Historical Fiction

BIRDIE & JUDE

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/70-inside-emotion-of-fiction-birdie.html

071 08 11 2019 Sara Dahmen’s

Historical Fiction

TINSMITH 1865

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/71-inside-emotion-of-fiction-tinsmith.html

072  08 19 2019 Carolyn Breckinridge’s

Short Story Collection

KALIEDESCOPE & OTHER STORIES

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/72-inside-emotion-of-fictions.html

073 08 21 2019 Alison Ragsdale’s

Emotional Women’s Fiction

THE ART OF REMEMBERING

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/73-inside-emotion-of-fiction-art-of.html

074  08 22 2019 Lee Matthew Goldberg’s

Suspense Thriller

THE DESIRE CARD

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/74-inside-emotion-of-fictions-desire.html

075 08 23 2019 Jonathan Brown’s

Mystery/Amateur P.I.

THE BIG CRESCENDO

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/75-inside-emotion-of-fictions-big.html

076 09 02 2019 Chera Hammons Miller’s

Literary Fiction w/ suspense, concern with animals & land management

Monarchs of the Northeast Kingdom

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/76-inside-emotion-of-fictions-monarchs.html

077 09 09 019 Joe William Taylor’s

Literary Mystery

The Theoretics of Love

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/77-inside-emotion-of-fiction-theoretics.html

078 09 15 2019 Linda Hughes’s

Romantic Suspense

Secret of the Island

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/78-inside-emotion-of-fiction-secrets-of.html

079 09 19 2019 Max Elliot Anderson’s

Middle Grade Adventure/Mystery

Snake Island

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/79-inside-emotion-of-fiction-snake.html

080 09 22 2019 Danny Adams’s

Science Fiction

Dayworld: A Hole In Wednesday

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/80-inside-emotion-of-fiction-dayworld.html

081 09 24 2019 Arianna Dagnino’s

Social/Historical/Adventure

The Afrikaner

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/81-inside-emotion-of-fiction-afrikaner.html

082 09 29 2019 Lawrence Verigin’s

Thriller/Suspense

Seed of Control

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/82-inside-emotion-of-fiction-seed-of.html

083  10 05 2019 Emma Khoury’s

Fantasy

The Sword And Shield

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/83-inside-emotion-of-fiction-sword-and.html

#084 10 07 2019 Steve McManus’s

Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

SEVEN DEVILS

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/84-inside-emotion-of-fiction-seven.html

#085 10 08 2019 Sheila Lowe’s

Mystery/Psychological/Suspense with Scientific Bent

PROOF OF LIVE

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/085-inside-emotion-of-fiction-proof-of.html

#086 10 10 2019 Jess Neal Woods’s

Historical Fiction

THE PROCESS OF FRAYING

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/86-inside-emotion-of-fiction-process-of.html

#087 10 11 2019 Karen Odden’s

Historical Suspense

A TRACE OF DECEIT

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/87-inside-emotion-of-fiction-trace-of.html

#88 10 14 2019 Kate Maruyama’s

Love, Loss & Supernatural

“HARROWGATE”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/88-inside-emotion-of-fiction-harrowgate.html

#89 10 17 2019 Sherry Harris’s

Mystery

“LET’S FAKE A DEAL”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/89-inside-emotion-of-fiction-lets-fake.html

#90 10 18 2019 Linda Mooney’s

Science Fiction Apocalyptic/ Post Apocalyptic

“THE TRUNK”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/90-inside-emotion-of-fiction-trunk-by.html

#91 10 19 2019 Jayne Martin’s

Flash Fiction Short Story Collection

“TENDER CUTS”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/91-inside-emotion-of-fiction-tender.html

#92 10 22 2019 Janice Cole Hopkins’s

Inspirational Romance

“IT ALL STARTED AT THE MASQUERADE”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/92-inside-emotion-of-fiction-it-all.html

#93 10 29 2019 Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s

Short Story Collection

“THE SHADOWS BEHIND”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/10/93-inside-emotion-of-fiction-shadows.html

#94 11 01 2019 David Henry Sterry’s

Fiction: Sexual Violence

“THE TENDERLOIN WARS”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/94-inside-emotion-of-fiction-tenderloin.html

#95 11 03 2019 Jay Requard’s

Dark Fantasy/Horror

“DEATH & DUST: THE PALE SAND ADVENTURES”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/95-inside-emotion-of-fiction-death-dust.html

#96 11 04 2019 Caroline Leavitt’s

Fiction

“WITH OR WITHOUT YOU”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/96-inside-emotion-of-fiction-with-or.html

#97 11 06 2019 Kelsey Clifton’s

Science Fiction

“A DAY OUT OF TIME”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/97-inside-emotion-of-fiction-day-out-of.html

#098 11 13 2019 John F Allen’s

Urban Fantasy Tale

“The God Killers’
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/98-inside-emotion-of-fiction-god.html

#99 11 16 2019 Damian McNicholl’s

Historical Novel

“The Moment of Truth”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/99-inside-emotion-of-fiction-moment-of.html

#100 11 19 2019 Stacia Levy’s

Mystery/Suspense Novel

“Girl Crush”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/100-inside-emotion-of-fiction-girl.html

#101 11 24 2019 Charlotte Morgan’s

Fiction Novel

“Protecting Elvis”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/101-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html

#102 11 26 2019 T. L. Moore’s

Children’s Christian Fiction

“Ed On My Shoulder:  Maria & The Candy Trail”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/102-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ed-on-my.html

#103 11 27 2019 Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg’s

Coming of Age Literary Novel

The Nine

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/103-inside-emotion-of-fiction-nine-by.html

#104 11 29 2019 Charlotte Blackwell’s

Adult Paranormal

“MYSTIC EMBRACE”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/104-inside-emotion-of-fiction-mystic.html

#105 12 07 2019 Mike Burrell’s

Satire Novel

“THE LAND OF GRACE”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/105-inside-emotion-of-fiction-land-of.html

#106 12 09 2019 Phil McCarron’s

Screenplay

“Escapement”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/106-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html

#107 12 11 2019 Wendy H. Jones’s

Crime Fiction/Police Procedural Novel

“KILLER’S COUNTDOWN”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/107-inside-emotion-of-fiction-killers.html

#108 12 13 2019 Sandra Arnold’s

Historical Literary Fiction

“The Ash, the Well and the Blue Bell”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/1

8-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ash-well.html

#109 12 16 2019 Amalia Carosella’s

Historical/Contemporary/Duel Timeline/ Women’s

Fiction

“DAUGHTER OF A THOUSAND YEARS”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/109-inside-emotion-of-fiction-daughter_17.html

#110 12 19 2019 Laura Bickle’s

Weird Western/Contemporary Fantasy

“DARK ALCHEMY”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/110-inside-emotion-of-fiction-dark.html

#111 12 27 2019 Brian Pinkerton’s

Science Fiction Thriller

“THE GEMINI EXPERIMENT”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/111-inside-emotion-of-fiction-gemini.html

#112  12 28 2019 Sandra de Helen’s

Lesbian Thriller

“TILL DARKNESS COMES”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/112-inside-emotion-of-fiction-till.html

#113 12 29 2019 Jo Wilde’s

Vampire Thriller

“THE CROSSING”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/113-inisde-emotion-of-fiction-crossing.html

#114 12 30 2019 Sam Richard’s

Short Story Collection of Weird and Transgressive

Horror

“To Wallow In Ash and Sorrows”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/114-inside-emotion-of-fiction-to-wallow.html

#115 12 31 2019 Duncan B Barlow’s

Literary Fiction Novel

“A DOG BETWEEN US”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/inside-emotion-of-fiction-dog-between.html

#116 01 02 2020 Allison Landa’s

Young Adult Novel

“BAD HAIR”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/116-inside-emotion-of-fiction-bad-hair.html

#117 01 03 2020 Pablo Medina’s

Literary Satire Novel

“THE CUBAN COMEDY”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/117-inside-emotion-of-fiction-cuban.html

#118 01 06 2020 William Trent Pancoast’s

Historical/Literary Novel

“THE ROAD TO MATEWAN”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/118-inside-emotion-of-fiction-road-to.html

#119 01 07 2020 Jane Bernstein’s

Contemporary Novel

“The Face Tells the Secret”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/119-inside-emotion-of-fiction-face.html

#120 01 09 2020 Terry Kroenung’s

Young Adult, Historical and Fantasy

“Brimstone And Lily”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/120-inside-emotion-of-fiction-brimstone.html

#121 01 12 2020 Melissa Yi’s

Fiction Thriller

“GRAVEYARD SHIFT”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/121-inside-emotion-of-fiction-melissa.html

#122 01 15 2020 Marcie R. Rendon’s

Crime Thriller

“GIRL GONE MISSING”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/122-inside-emotion-of-fiction-girl-gone.html

#123 01 16 2020 Tori Eldridge’s

Multi Genre Novel

“THE NINJA DAUGHTER”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/123-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ninja.html

#124 01 17 2020 Kristen Joy Wilks’s

Christian Romantic Comedy

“YELLOWSTONE YONDERING”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/124

inside-emotion-of-fiction.html

#125 01 20 2020 Susan C. Shea’s

Cozy Mystery

“DRESSED FOR DEATH IN BURGUNDY”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/125-inside-emotion-of-fiction-dressed.html

#126  01 22 2020 Phong Nguyen’s

Improvisational Fiction

“ROUDABOUT”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/126-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html

#127 01 23 2020 Kate Thornton’s

Mystery Short Story In Its Entirety

“Ai Witness”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/127-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ai.html

#128 01 24 2020 Phil McCarron’s

Semi Fictional Essays

“The Great Facepalm: The Farce of 21^st Century

Normality”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/128-inside-emotion-of-fiction-great.html

#129  01 27 2020 Kenneth Weene’s

Historicized Literary Fiction

“Red And White”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/129-inside-emotion-of-fiction-red-and.html

#130 01 28 2020 Graham Storrs’s

Science Fiction Thriller

“TimeSplash”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com

/2020/01/130-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html

#131 02 08 2020 Angela Slatter’s

Short Story “Terrible As An Army With Banners”

From her Short Story Collection THE BITTERWOOD BIBLE AND OTHER RECOUNTINGS

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/02/131-inside-emotion-of-fiction-terrible.html

#132 02 11 2020 Joan Joachim’s

Romance

Just One Kiss

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/02/132-inside-emotion-of-fiction-just-one.html

#133 02 16 2020 Kelsey Clifton’s

Science Fiction

A DAY OUT OF TIME

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/02/133-inside-emotion-of-fiction-day-out.html

#134 02 17 2020 Soraya M Lane’s

Women Historical Fiction

THE GIRLS OF PEARL HARBOR

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/02/134-inside-emotion-of-fiction-girls-of.html

#135 03 07 2020

Linked Fiction

BLEACHERS Fifty-Four Linked Fictions

By Joseph Mills

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/135-inside-emotion-of-fiction-bleachers.html

#136 03 15 2020

Science Fiction Romance

BLUE VISION

By Marie Lavender

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/136-inside-emotion-of-fiction-blue.html

#137 03 17 2020

Crime Fiction

12 Bullets

by O’Neil De Noux

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/137-inside-emotion-of-fiction-12.html

#138 03 18 2020

Flash Fiction Piece

Radical

by Kelle Grace Gaddis

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/138-inside-emotion-of-fiction-radical.html

#139 03 20 2020

Mystery

HERE BE MONSTERS

By Jamie Sheffield

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/139-inside-emotion-of-fiction-here-be.html

#140 03 21 2020

Character Driven Novel

UNBROKEN

By Jamie Lisa Forbes

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/140-inside-emotion-of-fiction-unbroken.html

#141 03 23 2020

Literary Murder Mystery

COLD COUNTRY

By Russell Rowland

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/141-inside-emotion-of-fiction-cold.html

#142 04 01 2020

Sci-Fi/Paranormal

SWEET SLEEP

By Kim Cormack

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/142-inside-emotion-of-fiction-sweet.html

#143 04 02 2020

Western Noir Short Story

“Night Rounds”

by James Reasoner

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/143-inside-emotion-of-fiction-night.html

#144 04 03 2020

Southern Fiction

LITTLE TEA

By Claire Fullerton

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/144-inside-emotion-of-fiction-little.html

#145 04 04 2020

Mainstream novel with elements of crime, mystery, and magic

THE FORGETTING FLOWER
by Karen Hugg

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/145-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html

#146 04 07 2020

Historical Fiction

MEDICIS DAUGHTER

by Sophie Perinot

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/146-inside-emotion-of-fiction-medicis.html

#147 04 08 2020

Dark Urban Fantasy with elements of Paranormal Romance

COVEN BORN

by Stephanie Reisner aka AUDREY BRICE

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/147-inside-emotion-of-fiction-coven.html

#148 04 13 2020

Mystery With A Fantasy Twist

DEATH LIVES IN THE WATER

By Shoshana Edwards

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/148-inside-emotion-of-fiction-death.html

#149 04 14 2020

Historical Fiction

ASHES

by Sharon Glogal Friedman

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/149-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ashes-by.html

#150 04 19 2020

Vampire Horror Novelette

Blood Thrasher:  The Devil’s in the Metal

by Adam Messer

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/adam

messers-blood-thrasher-devils-in.html

#151 04 25 2020

Historical Fiction

Charis in the World of Wonders

by Marly Youmans

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/marly-youmans-charis-in-world-of.html

#152 04 29 2020

Historical Fiction

The Master of Verona

by David Blixt

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/david-blixts-master-of-verona-is-152-in.html

#153 04 30 2020

General Fiction (Family)

Bread Bags & Bullies:  Surviving the 80s

by Steven Manchester

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/steven-manchesters-bread-bags-bullies.html

#154 05 01 2020

Adventure-Thriller/Horror

Into The Ashes

by Lee Murray

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/lee-murrays-into-ashes-is-154-in-never.html

#155 05 06 2020

Coming of Age/Crime Novel

All Things Left In The Wild

by James Wade

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/james-wades-all-things-left-in-wild-is.html

#156 05 10 2020

Paranormal Mystery

Southern Bound

by Stuart Jaffe

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/stuart-jaffes-southern-bound-is-156-in.html

#157 05 13 2020

Mystery/Crime Novel

Yardbird

By Mark Slade

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/mark-slades-yardbird-is-157-in-never.html

#158 05 15 2020

Horror/Crime Novel

Hotel Nowhere

By David E Adkins

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/david-e-adkinss-hotel-nowhere-is-158-in.html

#159 05 16 2020

Satire/Crime Novel

THE LYING BASTARD

by Clint Margrave

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/clint-margraves-lying-bastard-is-159-in.html

#160 05 19 2020

Southern Gothic Fiction

REVIVING THE HAWTHORN SISTERS

by Emily Carpenter

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/emily-carpenters-reviving-hawthorn.html

#161 05 21 2020

Women’s Domestic Life Fiction

MERCY HOUSE

by Alena Dillon

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/alena-dillons-mercy-house-is-161-in.html

#162 05 26 2020

Screenplay/Film

BEAST MODE

by Drew Fortune and Spain Willingham

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/drew-fortunes-and-spain-willinghams_26.html

#163 05 31 2020

Coming of Age/ Psychological Thriller

MY SISTER & OTHER LIARS

by Ruth Dugdall

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/ruth-dugdalls-my-sister-and-other-liars.html

#164 06 01 2020

Psychological Thriller

IN HARM’S WAY

by Owen Mullen

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/owen-mullens-in-harms-way-is-164-in.html

#165 06 02 2020

Small Town Short Story Collection

SNAPSHOT “Old Lady”

by Eliot Parker

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/eliot-parkers-old-lady-from-snapshots.html

#166 06 04 2020

Noir Crime Novel

SKIN OF TATTOOS

by Christina Hoag

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/christina-hoags-skin-of-tattoos-is-166.html

#167 06 06 2020

Coming of Age/Historical

THE ORPHAN COLLECTOR

by Ellen Marie Wiseman

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/ellen-marie-wisemans-orphan-collector.html

#168 06 08 2020

World War Two Historical Fiction

THE PRISONER’S WIFE

by Maggie Brookes

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/maggie-brookess-prisoners-wife-is-168.html

#169 06 09 2020

Novella

(about the 1960s,

Rolling Stones in their exile,

genocide, it’s survivors, and

people from places that no longer exist.)

BLUE COAST MYSTERY:  ALMOST SOLVED

by Nick Sweeney

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/nick-sweeneys-blue-coast-mystery-almost.html

#170 06 11 2020

Family Life/Coming of Age Novel

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF SAME HELL

by Robert Dugoni

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/robert-dugonis-extraordinary-life-of.html

#171 06 26 2020

Women’s Divorce Fiction

QUEEN OF THE OWLS

by Barbara Linn Probst

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/barbara-linn-probsts-queen-of-owls-is.html

#172 07 01 2020

Short Story “The Belindas” from the Short Story Collection LOVE WAR STORIES

By Ivelisse Rodriguez

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/ivelisse-rodriguezs-short-story.html

#173 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 04 2020

Organized Crime Thriller

BLUES IN THE DARK

by Raymond Benson

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/raymond-bensons-blues-in-dark-is-173-in.html

#174 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 08 2020

Contemporary Literature & Fiction

THE ESCAPE OF MALCOLM POE

by Allison Burnett

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/allison-burnetts-escape-of-malcolm-poe.html

#175 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 09 2020

Horror Novella

TERMINUS STATION

by Jeff Lyons

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/jeff-lyonss-terminus-station-is-175-in.html

#176 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 12 2020

20^th Century Historical Romance

“The Bootlegger’s Wife”

by Denise Devine

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/chris-rice-cooper-blog-176-inside.html

#177 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 24 2020

Literary Fiction Novel

“What Drives Men”

by Susan Tepper

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/susan-teppers-what-drives-men-is-177-in.html