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  • The Perfect Edge Trifecta tour begins today!

    The Perfect Edge Trifecta tour begins today!

    Perfect Edge Trifecta

    The Perfect Edge Books blog tour has officially started! What is it? A tour in which blog posts about 3 Perfect Edge Books releases will be posted on various super-duper blogs over the next few weeks.

    I’m telling you, Perfect Edge Books is going places. Big places. I’ve genuinely enjoyed and/or loved every book they’ve published so far in their short few months of existence. If you like my books, or like insightful, rough-around-the-edges, intelligent novels, then definitely check out Perfect Edge Books!

    See the tour schedule below. I’ll be updating the dedicated The Perfect Edge Trifecta tour page as new posts are published. Be sure to check back often for updated links.

    While you’re at it, head over to the blogs listed below and subscribe, why don’t ya? You’ll like them. They have good stuff to offer.

    Perfect Edge Books was founded in late 2011 to unite authors whose books weren’t “obviously” commercial. Our books tend to sit in various genres all at once: literary fiction, satire, neo-noir, sci-fi, experimental prose. We believe that literary doesn’t have to mean difficult, and that difficult doesn’t just mean pointless. We prefer to cultivate a word-of-mouth approach to marketing, and keep production as simple as we can. Learn more at www.PerfectEdgeBooks.com.

    Blog Tour Schedule:

    Stranger Will

    1-Apr Bigger, Fuller Glass
    1-Apr Bookworm Castle
    1-Apr Naimeless
    2-Apr Deal Sharing Aunt
    2-Apr Growing Up Little
    3-Apr Free Book Reviews
    3-Apr The Reviewing Shelf
    4-Apr Candle Beam Books
    4-Apr Challenging Reads
    5-Apr Lissette E. Manning’s Blog
    6-Apr Cabin Goddess
    7-Apr Tread Softly
    7-Apr Words in Sync

    Angel Falls

    8-Apr Sycho Faerie’s Book Obesession
    8-Apr Bookworm Castle
    8-Apr Naimeless
    9-Apr Book Broads
    9-Apr Growing Up Little
    9-Apr Deal Sharing Aunt
    10-Apr Free Book Reviews
    10-Apr Charlotte Babb’s Blog
    10-Apr Bless Their Hearts ~ Mom
    11-Apr Black Heart Magazine
    11-Apr Challenging Reads
    12-Apr The Story Factory Reading Zone
    12-Apr Lissette E. Manning’s Blog
    13-Apr A Bit of Everything
    13-Apr Cabin Goddess
    14-Apr Shelley’s Book Case

    The Sound of Loneliness

    15-Apr Bigger, Fuller Glass
    15-Apr Naimeless
    16-Apr The Reviewing Shelf
    16-Apr Growing Up Little
    16-Apr Deal Sharing Aunt
    17-Apr My Life with Books & Boys
    17-Apr Free Book Reviews
    17-Apr Charlotte Babb’s Blog
    18-Apr Lissette E. Manning’s Blog
    18-Apr Candle Beam Books
    18-Apr Black Heart Magazine
    19-Apr Nancy Hendrickson’s Blog
    20-Apr Bookworm Castle
    20-Apr Cabin Goddess
    21-Apr Words in Sync

  • The Sound of Loneliness by Craig Wallwork video book review

    The Sound of Loneliness by Craig Wallwork video book review

    Click the image above to watch the video book review
    Click the image above to watch the video book review

    Craig Wallwork’s The Sound of Loneliness (Perfect Edge Books) takes the concept of a tired, alcoholic, depressed writer and recesses it a generation or so, using a 22 year old protagonist with 52 year old problems.

    Much of the story’s tension lies between this 22 year old Daniel Crabtree and his teenage infatuation Emma, a tension that similar to Lolita, is meant to rouse conflict, but unlike Lolita, the age and maturity difference between the two characters is such that the reader can imagine the two characters actually working out, given another decade.

    Also, I manage to work in a Roseanne reference which makes me happier than you can even imagine.

    Buy The Sound of Loneliness by clicking here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Sound-Loneliness-Craig-Wallwork/dp/1780996012

  • Video Review of Quintessence of Dust by Craig Wallwork (Video Blog ep 030)

    Video Review of Quintessence of Dust by Craig Wallwork (Video Blog ep 030)

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    At times William Gay, at times Carlton Mellick III, but always, I’d say, he dodges what would traditionally be called Bizarro fiction by way of empathy for his characters. He’s Bizarro with heart…so, magical realist, I suppose. He’d fit in more with Amy Bender and Gabriel Garcia Marquez than with Carlton Mellick III or even Bradley Sands, but is strong enough in the world of any to be welcomed by them.

    Wallwork isn’t afraid to take a strange, even repulsive concept, and build a touching story around it. A story of a man shitting out his own nerves? Sounds ridiculous, but Wallwork makes it work. A sexual sideshow couple famous for inserting increasingly large objects into the woman’s vagina? Yep, but it gets even weirder, yet Wallwork knows how approach these images with honesty and heart.