by Wayne Cresser
I am pleased and excited to announce that my new collection of short stories called The Book of Norman is now available for your reading pleasure (I can only hope),on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Lulu and Rakuten Kobo.
Praise for The Book of Norman
A comedic universe awaits in the stories of Wayne Cresser’s The Book of Norman, a landscape that revolves around his Everyman protagonist, Norman Winters, suffering the relatable slings
and arrows prevalent in a world of prevaricators, weirdos, and bullies so you don’t have to. Cresser’s writing celebrates the quotidian and the absurd, leaving us rooting for Norman to the
very end.
—Fred Shaw, author of Scraping Away (CavanKerry Press)
The Book of Norman is Cresser at the height of his powers: dark, comical, warm; a stylist who brings Norm to life as equal parts navigator and wanderer. —Charles Kell, author of Ishmael Mask (Autumn House Press)
Cresser builds his world effectively, setting his work in a small, charming island community. Despite bucolic surroundings, there remains an ever-present subtext of struggle for Norman, a lifelong composite of conflict that looms from the opening of this series of “Norman” stories and follows through to conclusion. This is clearly Cresser’s finest work. I loved each of these tightly written stories. —Jay Primiano, author with John Rocco, of Swim That Rock (Candlewick Press)
“Brotherhood is religion,” wrote William Blake. And Norman Winters, the protagonist of Wayne Cresser’s loosely interconnected short story collection called The Book of Norman, I am here to say, I am your brother, and add only this, “Incoming!” —Dai Bando, the Hobbledehoy
One More Thing
According to the Welcome page, there are approximately 915 subscribers to this site, not that I’d know it—you never call, you never write, o’ brothers, where art thou?
Okay, now that the whining bit is off my chest, I’d like to make a serious request. If you do check out the book, please let me know by dropping me a line. Sure, I’d love for you to buy it, but even if it’s just a peek at the Amazon or Barnes and Noble pages, let me know. If dropping me a line is undoable here, send a note to me at wcresser@gmail.com. Thanks.
For those of you who have purchased it and read it by now, I’d love it if you could go to the Amazon page for the book—https://www.amazon.com/Book-Norman-Wayne-Cresser/dp/B0DBGT22KC/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5bsMY9519F8iLHRtAlG37eRFV_oTdSLf5HJvww6ZW27GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.6mdf4H2FpwwWE6RXQVThOl8P1w4PJhmqY8s9bikwqCk&qid=1725729120&sr=8-1, and rate it, maybe even leave a short review. Beyond giving me an idea of what worked (and maybe what didn’t), it would be an enormous help to me in reaching some understanding of who is reading the book and how it is being received.
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