AND…I’m back home from Seattle and ready to sign books to you, your friends, you dog, your writing group–hit me up!
(Signed copies with international shipping OR multiple copies: Contact me directly)
Thank you so much for all your support. We’re already talking about a second printing!
FRIENDS!! My flash novel,
After the Rapture
is now available from Mason Jar Press!
Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered!
I wrote this book between 2016 and early 2020, finishing it the same week the world went into quarantine. For the next year I watched as the line between truth and satire began to merge, and in the continuing aftermath it’s now impossible to separate the two…
AFTER THE RAPTURE: In a world just slant from our own, the people are waiting for the Rapture. But what they get is not at all what they thought it would be. Whether they’re pilgrimaging to the Very First Kentucky Fried Chicken, living in life-sized Barbie houses, taking the Marriott staff hostage, trading Candy Corn on Wall Street or draining Loch Ness to “find out the goddamn truth once and for all,” there is a familiar sort of desperation in this post-Rapture existence. In moments you will laugh at the absurdity of their world, and in other moments the darkness will feel all too familiar…
“In this world of Walmarts, Barbies, Kens, orgies/time-shares, 7-11s, clones, a red Lake Michigan, and dreams, Nancy Stohlman’s humor and talent shines. The rapture becomes more than just a rapture: it’s a world turning on its head, acceptance, and then finding a new normal. Redeeming and heart-felt, this dystopian novel-in-flashes is one not to forget. After the Rapture is a rapture!” Kim Chinquee, three-time Pushcart Prize winner, author of seven collections and the novel, PIPETTE
“After The Rapture is a startling, rhapsodic, brilliant tome. Stohlman dares to venture into an intricate mosaic of layered, futuristic identities, individualities, and lives both wasted and yet fully explored. A dazzling oscillation of scintillating prose, on the threshold between the ephemeral and the eternal. After the Rapture is a book full of surprise and wonder, a compelling and majestic book.” Robert Vaughan, author of Askew, Funhouse and Addicts & Basements
“Mesmerizing, challenging, funny, awesome, entertaining, bewildering, full of doom, wisdom, absurdity, and heart. I love how gigantic and scary Biblical personages and events are swallowed up by commercial / pop culture. It’s ridiculous, genius, and moving, all at the same time.” Robert Shapard, co-editor of the Norton Flash Fiction anthologies Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, and Flash Fiction International
“Nancy Stohlman’s After the Rapture is the most raucous, innovative–and ultimately moving–disappearing act you’ll ever read. Brilliant!” SmokeLong Quarterly
image by Lynn Hough
AFTER THE RAPTURE is a flash fiction hybrid book written at the intersection between flash fiction and the novel. A leader and innovator of the form, Stohlman fragments the long form narrative into the distilled intensity of micro and compressed fiction while still maintaining a larger story arc. Nancy Stohlman has authored four previous books of flash fiction including The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, The Monster Opera, and Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities, which was a finalist for a 2019 Colorado Book Award. Her flash fictions have been anthologized in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Very Short Stories and in Macmillan’s The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students. Her flash fiction craft book, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction, won the Readers View Gold Award and was re-released as an audiobook in 2022.
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Writer’s Digest: The Sacred Clown: From Hysteria to Hysterical When Writing Humor and Satire
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Live from The Bunker: An Absurd Afterlife? A Barbie Rapture? Live TV broadcast interview with Nancy Stohlman
March 25: Arapahoe Community College Lit Fest presenter
March 30: In-person reading/signing at The Bookworm, Omaha NE
April 7: (Virtual) Fbomb NYC, 6 pm EST featuring Nancy Stohlman with guests Paul Beckman, Meg Tuite, Robert Vaughan, Len Kuntz, Kona Morris, Jonathan Montgomery, Rob Geisen, Sally Reno and Kathy Fish
April 29: The Mercury Cafe for the double book release (Nancy Stohlman and Johnathan Montgomery) “Nine Raptures at Once”. Details coming.
April 17: (Virtual): Shorter is Better: April Book Club Guest
May 18: (Virtual) Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series with Courtney LeBlanc, Yael Aldana, Nancy Stohlman. 7:30 PM EST time.
June 1: In person: Rally Reading Series Pete’s Candy Store, NYC. Full lineup TBA
June 19: In person: Featured Reader, Spoken Word Paris. Full lineup TBA
June 22: In person: Featured Reader, Paris Lit Up. Full lineup TBA
July 14-16 Reader and Workshop Leader, Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol, UK
August 15-20: Open Your Art: High Altitude Inspiration in the Rocky Mountains Writing Retreat (www.flashfictionretreats.com)
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Love,
FRIENDS!! Pre-sales for After the Rapture will be closing this Friday! Last chance to get it at pre-sale rates AND get in on the last pre-sale prize drawing!
Pre-sale orders ship March 7, 2023
AFTER THE RAPTURE: In a world just slant from our own, the people are waiting for the Rapture. But what they get is not at all what they thought it would be. Whether they’re pilgrimaging to the Very First Kentucky Fried Chicken, living in life-sized Barbie houses, taking the Marriott staff hostage, trading Candy Corn on Wall Street or draining Loch Ness to “find out the goddamn truth once and for all,” there is a familiar sort of desperation in this post-Rapture existence. In moments you will laugh at the absurdity of their world, and in other moments the darkness will feel all too familiar…
Feb 21: In person: Fbomb Denver and After the Rapture pre-release party–Nancy Stohlman host with featured readers Jomil Ebro, Krystal Summers and special guest Kona Morris. 7:30 at The Mercury Cafe, Denver
March 9 (Thursday) AWP Reading and Rapture release in conjunction with Split Lip Press, 6-8 pm location and readers TBA
March 10 (Friday) Book Signing 11 am at Bending Genres Table AWP Friday
March 11: (Saturday) Book Signing @Split Lip Table AWP Saturday 12-1
April 7: (Virtual) Fbomb NYC, 6 pm EST with featured guests to TBA
May 18: (Virtual) Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series with Courtney LeBlanc, Yael Aldana, Nancy Stohlman. 7:30 PM EST time.
June 1: In person: Rally Reading Series Pete’s Candy Store, NYC. Full lineup TBA
June 19: Featured Reader, Spoken Word Paris
June 22: Featured Reader, Paris Lit Up
July 14-16 Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol, UK
“How do you convince the police that you’re not missing and never were? In these excerpts from “After the Rapture” by Nancy Stohlman, bad things pile on top of one another, food disappears from the shelves, and a person finds a missing person poster featuring their own face.”
And THANK YOU to everyone who has pre-ordered! xoxoxox
Pre-sale price: $12
(regularly $14)
Pre-sale orders ship March 7, 2023
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P.S. This month’s bonus prize drawing is happening
October 28
and the winner gets a free story critique!
(Max 1000 words)
TO ENTER:
And that’s it! If you entered last month then you are automatically entered for all the drawings–so the sooner you enter, the more chances you have to win!
(That’s me with the uncorrected galley proof) xoxo
Nancy Stohlman 