Tara Lynn Masih's Blog

Goodreads used to allow authors to post their events and invite people to attend. That's how I met author Teresa Tumminello Brader, and in New Orleans, of all places!

Heading back there for two events: a panel on Otherworldy Fiction and a reading during their closing ceremony. Both on Sunday. The following books will be for sale:





Hope to make some new friends and reunite with old ones, like Teresa, who is also presenting. If you are attending, see you soon!

SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY BLOG. GOODREADS IS LOOKING INTO WHY THE LIKES AND COMMENTS TALLY DISAPPEARED ON ALL MY BLOG POSTS. SO FOR NOW, KNOW IF YOU LIKE ANY, IT MIGHT NOT SHOW UP. YOU CAN STILL LEAVE COMMENTS AND I CAN SEE THOSE.

SO grateful to the Florida Book Awards and Florida State University Libraries for awarding a Bronze Medal in General Fiction to HOW WE DISAPPEAR!



See the full list for other great reading recs:

https://news.fsu.edu/news/arts-humani...

I'll be at Word of South Festival reading with other fiction writers April 22. Hope to see you there!

A wonderful way to start the new year! A great review from the one major source of audio reviews, AudioFile:

"Six talented narrators work together to deliver these immersive short stories, which explore the lasting effect of absence or disappearance upon people's lives. Each well-crafted story evokes a particular place and time, and highlights strongly imagined characters."

Narrators are the talented voice actors:

Siiri Scott, Erica Sullivan, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Thom Rivera, Kyla Garcia, and P.J. Ochlan

I was so thrilled to have narrators whose ethnicity matched the characters read the stories! Thanks to Blackstone Audio for producing and publishing.

https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/rev...

FINALLY my little book has launched out into the great big world of bigger books, and this year it is a very big world indeed. So many books were put off due to covid and all came out this summer and fall. HWD is doing it's best with great reviews from Kirkus, Southern Literary Review, Lit Pub, The Masters Review, Necessary Fiction, Midwest Book Review, and Small Press Review, among others. It is beautifully featured on the highly popular Pie Lady Books on Instagram, so go check it out! (You can also view the image on my website shortly under the Memories tab if you are not on Instagram or on her Facebook page.)



Available in paper, hardback, Kindle, and audio.

"Through elegant prose, complex characters, and breathtaking images, Masih has crafted a collection that is not only a joy to read but also incredibly cathartic." --Necessary Fiction

Still shaking to discover that my little story collection made it on to the venerable Most Anticipated List compiled by THE MILLIONS for the second half of 2022! Yay!

https://themillions.com/2022/07/most-...

Book trailers are a fun way to bring words to life in some way. I hope you enjoy this collaboration with cyanomaster Jimi Albert. His image captured something in How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

You can view it on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/PUsvLPs3vv4

Or on my Goodreads profile page!

So the giveaway is over, but still more chances to read the book for free if you are a member of NetGalley:

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/boo...



"How We Disappear traffics, beautifully, in the liminal spaces between past and present, imagination and memory. These stories are concise, unsparing, lyrical, always daring."

—Michael Parker, O. Henry Award–winning author of Prairie Fever

The giveaway for How We Disappear: Novella & Stories, is live till the end of May. You can enter here:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

It comes with a bookmark and beautiful bookplate!



A virtuoso collection of stories that spin around an axis of loss and rediscovery.

—Tina May Hall, author of The Snow Collectors and winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

SO excited to have a new short story collection forthcoming in September from Press 53 and Blackstone Audio. I love the cover!



Look for it on NET Galley in June and a giveaway coming soon as well. And if anyone wants an eARC, let me know in a private message.

Thanks for your past support! I know many don't like reading short stories, but I've been told mine read like little novels :-).

Happy to be included in this anthology of award-winning ghost stories from Wyrd Harvest Press. Also love that all proceeds go to a UK nonprofit charity, The Wildlife Trusts.

Check it out if you like ghost/horror/fantasy books!