My novel Deep Down Things is available! I’m so proud of it,
and I hope it’s a good read. Here’s what
it’s about.
Deep Down Things, Tamara
Linse’s debut novel, is the emotionally riveting story of three siblings torn
apart by a charismatic bullrider-turned-writer and the love that triumphs despite
tragedy.
From the death of her parents at sixteen, Maggie Jordan
yearns for lost family, while sister CJ drowns in alcohol and brother Tibs
withdraws. When Maggie and an idealistic young writer named Jackdaw fall
in love, she is certain that she’s found what she’s looking for. As she
helps him write a novel, she gets pregnant, and they marry. But after
Maggie gives birth to a darling boy, Jes, she struggles to cope with Jes’s
severe birth defect, while Jackdaw struggles to overcome writer’s block brought
on by memories of his abusive father.
Ambitious, but never seeming so, Deep Down Things may remind you of Kent Haruf’s Plainsong and Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper.
Like the characters in Deep
Down Things, the author Tamara Linse and her husband have lost babies. They
had five miscarriages before their twins were born through the help of a
wonderful woman who acted as a gestational carrier. Tamara is also the author
of the short story collection How to Be a
Man and earned her master’s in English from the University of Wyoming,
where she taught writing. Her work appears in the Georgetown Review, South
Dakota Review, and Talking River,
among others, and she was a finalist for Arts
& Letters and Glimmer Train
contests, as well as the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize for a book of short
stories. She works as an editor for a foundation and a freelancer. Find her
online at tamaralinse.com and on her
blog Writer, Cogitator, Recovering Ranch Girl at tamara-linse.blogspot.com.
Print and ebook versions are available
for purchase at these and other online retailers and you can contact your local bookstore and have them order it for you. Happy reading!
Here's what's coming this week.
Tomorrow I’ll post about my first great review of Deep Down Things from
IndieReader. Wednesday I'll post an
excerpt. Thursday I’ll talk about how it
was written. Friday I’ll give you a
teaser about what’s coming down the pike in the future.
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