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Again, my thanks to everyone who has ordered or will be ordering a copy of this book.

I am happy to answer any questions any reader may have. In fact, if there's sufficient interest in some sort of formal Q & A or book club-type discussion, do let me know; I'd be more than willing to participate.

Best,

JM

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Joe, it's really an impressive book. Like Mike I feel this warrants and needs concentration. I started it and got some momentum, and then as I was late (for very pleasant reasons) leaving my girlfriend's Sunday morning to return to my duties at my parents' I left the book on her table. Won't be getting it back for a few days when I get my next evening off. Miss it!

Congrats, and I know you're proud.

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Greetings all.

Again, my sincere thanks for all your support with this book. It has been a fascinating month, now that it is out and (very gradually) reaching readers.

If I you have read and enjoyed or otherwise felt rewarded by your experience with the book, may I request that you please consider posting a rating or even a review at Goodreads and / or Amazon? Problematic institutions both, but they each do take feedback seriously, and it does help in raising the CREPUSCULE W/ NELLIE's profile.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22886178-crepuscule-w-nellie

http://www.amazon.com/Crepuscule-Nellie-RECURRENT-Joe-Milazzo/dp/1937543609/

Again, many thanks; best,

JM

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Got one copy, lost it in the black hole that lives somewhere in this house (which, if I knew where that was, things would stop getting lost in it, duh), got another copy, and have begun reading it. Joe had told me that if I make it past the first 32(?) pages, I'd be fine.

Well, I have, and I am. At first I had no idea what was "really" going on, but the more I read, the more it comes together. Still no idea what the laundry thing is about, Frank and "Mr. Lee", but I'm sure that will come too. I ain't worried about it.

It's getting interesting, Joe, it's getting really interesting.

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Got one copy, lost it in the black hole that lives somewhere in this house (which, if I knew where that was, things would stop getting lost in it, duh), got another copy, and have begun reading it. Joe had told me that if I make it past the first 32(?) pages, I'd be fine.

Well, I have, and I am. At first I had no idea what was "really" going on, but the more I read, the more it comes together. Still no idea what the laundry thing is about, Frank and "Mr. Lee", but I'm sure that will come too. I ain't worried about it.

It's getting interesting, Joe, it's getting really interesting.

Call Mr. Lee!

The chronology is rather scrambled, but for reasons (I won't claim they're good reasons, though). Trust that the section headers provide some guidance...

And thanks!

JM

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Hi all.

Just a couple of news items to share...

An excerpt from CREPUSCULE W/ NELLIE appears in the most recent issue of THE COLLAGIST. You can read it here: http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2014/12/5/crepuscule-wnellie-by-joe-milazzo-jaded.html.

Also, I will be reading in Austin, TX at Malvern Books on the evening of January 8 2015 (a TH). More details about the even can be found here: http://malvernbooks.com/event/novel-night/?instance_id=739.

Happy holidays!

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I am reading this book very slowly, because I have to. But damn, this is some entertaining provocativeness once you hit the zone with it. Maybe I'm feeling it wrong, but there seems to be a lot of dark comedy in this, a lot. Then again, maybe it's just that I see dark comedy in pretty much every damn thing. Everywhere I look in this world (as well as that one and the other one) I see dark comedy, what else could it be?

Either way, I'm taking my own sweet time to eat this thing up and fully digest each bite, and not minding it nary one bit about doing so.

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I am reading this book very slowly, because I have to. But damn, this is some entertaining provocativeness once you hit the zone with it. Maybe I'm feeling it wrong, but there seems to be a lot of dark comedy in this, a lot. Then again, maybe it's just that I see dark comedy in pretty much every damn thing. Everywhere I look in this world (as well as that one and the other one) I see dark comedy, what else could it be?

Either way, I'm taking my own sweet time to eat this thing up and fully digest each bite, and not minding it nary one bit about doing so.

Let me just say, Nathanael West is one of those authors that, when I first read him way back when, made me want to write novels.

Enjoy!

Some video from the Malvern Reading of January 8. It was very cold in Austin that night, but Malvern is a great bookstore (especially for anyone interested at all in contemporary poetry).

http://youtu.be/XNu0gokwEpQ

More footage can be found here: http://malvernbooks.com/tag/novel-night/

Thanks thanks thanks...

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A couple of items of potential interest:

1) NELLIE was recently reviewed ( quite intelligently and generously) by David Eric Tomlinson for The Writers' League Of Texas. No spoilers! https://writersleagueoftexas.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/members-review-53/

2) I'll be reading this Friday at the flgship Half-Price Books in Dallas with fellow TX author Thomas McNeely. Deets here: http://www.artandseek.org/event.php?id=62039

Thanks again; best.

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