First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories

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• Tenth collection of fiction from an established and well-connected flash fiction author

Meg is a literary darling with friends and connections across the lit fic spectrum. Shes anticipating blurbs from Charmaine Wilkerson and Bobbie Ann Mason, among others, and is planning a New England tour in late September / early October with author Jeff Friedman

Interviews and features pitched to Meg's personal connections at JMWW, CRAFT, and The Rumpus

Outreach and ARC mailing to publications that have published Megs work and those that have previously covered her: American Book Review, New Pages, The Rumpus, SmokeLong Quarterly, Bloom, Coal Hill Review, New England Review, Washington Square Review, McSweeneys, Passages North, Electric Literature, Best Small Fictions, Flash Fiction International, and Mslexia Magazine, where shes a regular contributor

Outreach and ARC mailing to US indies, with an emphasis on Megs home state of Pennsylvania

Award push, including the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Foreword Indies Books Awards, Saboteur Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, The Story Prize, and others

Mass galley mailing

E-ARCs available on Edelweiss

Reviews

"The people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us."

-Bob Hicok, author of Elegy Owed and Sex & Love

"The nuanced tonal complexity, which can go from the whimsical to a darker irony in the turn of a phrase, has been a signature feature in the work of Meg Pokrass."

--Stuart Dybek, author of Ecsatic Cahoots

"In the universe of Pokrass's fictions, planets are gloriously misaligned, stars and suns trail love of desperate sadness, black holes serve up dogs, spiders, cats, and galaxies explode everything we thought we know about the human heart."

--Pamela Painter, author of Fabrications

"To enter the portals of Pokrassland is to go on a magical journey: here there are sex-charged buffalo men and melancholic women who fear six-foot spiders and fall in love with their therapists. It's a place where people make bald statements and odd connections, where there are strange animals, purple stars and 'a deep-ruby moon.' Unpredictable, funny and charming, the world Meg Pokrass is a land that readers will enter gladly and, mesmerised, they will most definitely want to stay."

--Nuala O'Connor, author of Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce

Author Bio

Meg Pokrass is the author of eight flash fiction collections, two award-winning collections of hybrid prose, and two novellas-in-flash. Her books include Damn Sure Right (Press 53, 2011), The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down (Etruscan Press, 2015), My Very End of the Universe: Five Novellas in Flash and a Study of the Form (Rose Metal Press, 2015), Alligators At Night (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2018), Triple #12 (Ravenna Press, 2019), Alice In Wonderland Syndrome (V. Press, 2020), The Dog Seated Next to Me (Pelekinesis, 2020), The Loss Detector, a novella-in-flash (Bamboo Dart Press, 2021), Spinning to Mars (Blue Light Press, 2021), and co-author of The House of Gran Padano, with Jeff Friedman (Pelekinesis Press, 2022). Forthcoming in 2023 is Disappearing Debutantes (from Outpost 19), co-written with Aimee Parkison.