Ticket Reserved for Literary Agent

Come Aboard for an exciting literary ride! TRACKS, a novel in stories, is ready to leave the station in search of a literary agent.

Each story in TRACKS is told from the perspective of a passenger on a train traveling from Baltimore to Chicago. While the stories stand alone, they become even stronger and take on new meanings when linked together. A secondary character in one story becomes the main character in another. As the passengers interact, they alter the path ahead and cast past experiences and choices in a new light.

While entirely unique, TRACKS is similar in nature to Joan Silber's National Book Award finalist, IDEAS OF HEAVEN, a ring of stories. The writing style has been compared to that of Michael Cunningham and Alice Munro.

To learn more about TRACKS, read on. Or contact the author, Eric D. Goodman, at edgewriter@gmail.com.

TRACKS Author Interviewed

The latest issue of the online magazine, Write and Publish Your Book, features a cover story on Eric D. Goodman, author of TRACKS: a novel in stories.

In the interview, Sid Smith (the magazine's editor and publisher) asks Eric to talk about creativity, the writing process, finding literary agents, getting published, and the business of writing. Check out the cover story, "Eric D. Goodman on Getting Published," at the link below.

http://www.writeandpublishyourbook.com/magazine/edition/Newbie-News-September%2FOctober-2006/

TRACKS a Hit at Baltimore Book Festival

The first public reading from TRACKS, my novel in stories, was a big hit at the Baltimore Book Festival. I was joined by five other local writers for the Write Here Write Now Reading, sponsored by the Creative Alliance and held at the CityLit Tent.

The event was standing-tent only and was the subject of a story in the local daily, The Examiner. The Baltimore and National Book Festivals were covered by Paul Lagasse in his paper-cast and myself in Writeful.

Other featured authors at the two festivals this weekend included Sebastian Junger, Julia Glass, Scott Turow, Michael Connelly, Vince Flynn, Alexander McCall Smith, Alice McDermott, Khaled Hosseini, Geraldine Brooks, Spider & Jeanne Robinson, James McGreevey and Bob Woodward.

See Paul Lagasse's paper-cast here.
http://www.avwrites.com/sv/previous.html#100206

See Sara Michael's story on our reading in The Examiner.
http://www.examiner.com/a-322095~Book_fest_gives_writers_public_voice.html