PT showed me my gait improves that much with this rollator, too. It would prevent falls, allow me to leave the house/exercise, and access my community. Lightweight for my aortic aneurysm!
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It's book launch day for If I Go Quiet by MM Desch! I really enjoyed designing the cover of this book. A post about the process of creating it is on my blog here, if you'd like to check it out: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
Thank you so much, Julie! 😍
Cover reveal for The Sea-Glass Shore by @julieskelleher.bsky.social, out this fall from @forestavenuepress.bsky.social! Really enjoyed working on this with Julie and publisher @laurastanfill.bsky.social.
Tiny moment in my day of prepping for an upcoming lit event. utomniabene.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-mo...
Thank you to @poolpartymag.com and @brianstephenellis.bsky.social for including my book on their Top 15 Books of 2025 list. 💙
It's cover reveal day for Felan's Fables by Jamie Yourdon, with art by Graham Francoise. Out in spring. I wrote a bit about the process on my blog here: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/12/book... #coverreveal #fables #bookdesign
Ding! Every time you give my book to someone, an angel gets its wings. #whokilledonethegun #noir #oldtimeradio #books #shamelessselfpromotion
Books make great holiday gifts! Even if you don't select mine, please consider giving books - and in particular small press books - this season, because it's as much a gift to the author and the publisher as it is to the receiver. #forestavenuepress #whokilledonethegun #noir #cozynoir #oldtimeradio
Oh no! I hope you get through it quickly.
I'm thankful for loads of things, but I wanted to say thank you in particular, this year, to all the people who have supported or bought or read or reviewed or encouraged my book. You mean the world to me.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful review, Joan.
If you'd like a peek into that, and into one of my favorite movies, the link is here: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-i...
At the Broadway Books event for my novel, when @shawnlevy.com told me he pictured my character Four the Door as played by the classic film actor Mike Mazurki, it got me thinking about the ways the film Murder, My Sweet had influenced my book. So I put together a post about it....
@erikgrove.com, the editor of The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest, has been making little profiles about the contributors, including a merit badge declaration for each of them. Here's mine! The book can be preordered now. www.powells.com/book/the-mud...
...You can’t help but root for the brooding antihero, a tragically flawed gumshoe chasing a cold killer and an ocean-eyed dame. Who Killed One the Gun? pops off its pages like a sizzling band of hard-boiled bullets chasing a runaway jazz train.”
His beautifully written blurb of my book (in two parts): “Gigi Little has written a boozy love letter to a bygone era of noir detective radio plays. It’s Perry Mason meets Groundhog Day. A slick ticking time machine of a whodunit...
David also has a quirky wordplay-filled love story in The Untold Gaze and a wistful, sexy essay in the award-winning anthology Portland Queer. And he’s a wonderful writing teacher and an all-around lovely guy. I’m so glad to know him.
Amy Wang’s great piece about David and the Queen of Steeplechase Park:
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The Queen of Steeplechase Park is a love letter to Coney Island in the thirties, to Italian Americans, and to Italian cooking. It is sumptuous and gorgeous and over the top in the very best way. Starred review in Kirkus:
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When I was considering pitching my novel to Forest Avenue Press, David’s book was one of the reasons I felt certain that my book, too, was a Forest Avenue Press book. I felt like our novels were cousins of sorts, both very voice-driven, both love letters to a piece of American history...
The next person I’d like to thank for his lovely blurb of my book is David Ciminello...
I'm having coffee and listening to the opening of my book being read on the Books to the Ceiling podcast. It's surreal to listen to someone I don't know reading it aloud. And giving it her own noir-y twist! Thank you to Teresa Trent and Books to the Ceiling. If you'd like to listen: wp.me/pnaIT-dpu
Thank you, Daniel. So glad your book has done so well and keeps finding new ways to be seen in the world.
So cool that Daniel A. Olivas's awesome Chicano Frankenstein is on this list of 15 Frankenstein Retellings in Town and Country Magazine! And selfishly I'm excited that my cover is one of the four they used in their graphic to crown the article.
