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Monday 28 March 2016

☀ In Defense of the Moth Or a Meaningless Dance in Blinding Heat and Light- Johnny Newport

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for In Defense of the Moth Or a Meaningless Dance in Blinding Heat and Light, a Literary Fiction novel by (, Gnome On Pig Productions, 152 pages).

Don't miss our interview with author Johnny Newport.

PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and excerpt below. Read the first chapter with Amazon Look Inside.

Author Johnny Newport will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.  

Please do take part: comment on our post and follow the tour where you will be able to read other excerpts (☀), interviews (ℚ), reviews (✍) and guest blog posts (✉).


Synopsis | Teaser | Author Q&A | About the Author | Giveaway & Tour Stops

Synopsis

The Moon...

It is said the moon’s spell can move us and nobody understands her pull like Johnny Gomez.

Johnny, a devil-may-care and fatalistic salesman, remains tethered to his privileged life by a love for his children, his career and the moon—and not necessarily in that order. In fact, it’s Johnny’s lifelong passion for the moon, through both obsessive, independent study and a communal involvement in an astronomy society, that serves as the only outward distraction as a life of standard struggles waxes into a burgeoning crisis.

Until one night Johnny finds that the moon—his preferred method of self-medication-- no longer exists...but for him only and not anyone else.

Or so it seems, leaving Johnny’s continued marriage with reality to hinge on his rediscovery of the moon!

If you like allegories and/or philosophical apologies for acute insanity, grab “In Defense of the Moth or A Meaningless Dance in the Blinding Heat and Light” and join the eclipse.

Teaser: Excerpt

     I walked past a block of shuttered buildings. Most I noticed had been shuttered for a long time, but the last office was a more recent failure. It was a beauty salon last I remembered. I reached the street corner where the tall street lamp was planted in the sidewalk and I gazed upward. A flutter of moths danced to the low hum of energy the light created. It wasn’t much and it wasn’t for long as they would be dead soon, but at least without the light of the moon they had the luck of having a substitute for their meaning, even if artificial, through man’s production.
      They owe us one, I thought.

In Defense of the Moth
Or a Meaningless Dance in Blinding Heat and Light

Available NOW!

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About the Author

Johnny Newport (The Moth) is carrying the consciousness of the oft-failed man native to 2016. Strictly from a visual standpoint he looks like he may be kept in a nice package, but this is not so. Johnny Newport has two feet on the warpath and probably smells like last night’s street tacos.

Johnny knows that his devil-may-care attitude is unfair—to himself and to others—but this is precisely the origin for the voice of an unbridled generation of privilege; the 21st-century-livers that intimately know they have squandered (squandered what? How can we say definitively and with any assurance despite knowing that a squandering has, indeed, befallen?), and will continue to do so, happily.

Otherwise about me, I studied at the University of Texas at Austin, have spent the last two years in The Writer's Path program at SMU (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) and have applied to a handful of low-res MFA programs for fall of '16.

Short story publications in 2015 were:

* Mr. Franklin’s Heartbreaking Sympathy (The Speculative Book, anthology)
* La Tortuga, (Limestone, University of Kentucky MFA journal)
* He, Who Controls the Spices (Euphemism, Illinois State University graduate journal)
* I Blame Lolita (Moth magazine, Ireland's premiere literary review)
* Letter to the Jew's Mom (The Vehicle, Eastern Illinois University online journal)

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Giveaway and Tour Stops

Enter to win a $15 Amazon/BN GC – a Rafflecopter giveaway
Remember to comment to win!
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Follow In Defense of the Moth's tour at:

Mar 14: Writer Wonderland
Mar 21: Rogue's Angels
Mar 28: BooksChatter
Apr 4: T's Stuff
Apr 11: Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
Apr 18: Natural Bri
Apr 18: It's Raining Books
Apr 25: Long and Short Reviews
May 2: Sharing Links and Wisdom

36 comments:

Goddess Fish Promotions said...

Thank you for hosting

James Robert said...

Thanks for the excerpt and giveaway, greatly appreciated

Anonymous said...

Your book sounds like a fun read.

Rita Wray said...

I liked the excerpt.

MomJane said...

Great excerpt. I really liked it.

Victoria Alexander said...

Great teaser - thanks for sharing :)

DanieX said...

sounds really good!!

CutTheCrackJack said...

Thanks for hosting!

James Robert said...

Thanks once again for another great giveaway.

James Robert said...

Have an awesome weekend and thank you for this chance

James Robert said...

Have a blessed Sunday and thanks for this chance

James Robert said...

Here we are again, back to Monday. Thanks for this chance to win

James Robert said...

Saying thank you for giving all of us the opportunity to win

James Robert said...

I appreciate you taking time to offer this giveaway to us. Thanks so much!

James Robert said...

Enjoy your Thursday and saying thank you once again

James Robert said...

Many of us are happy to see it being Friday again. Thank you for this opportunity at winning and all the work you put into this for us.

James Robert said...

Have a great weekend and thanks again for the chance to win

James Robert said...

Sunday blessing and thanks for the giveaway

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

I appreciate you giving us the opportunity to win, thank you

James Robert said...

Hope you're having a great Saturday! Thanks again for the chance!

James Robert said...

Good Morning and wishing you a wonderful Sunday. Thank you for this giveaway as well

James Robert said...

I appreciate you giving us the chance to win, thank you

James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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James Robert said...

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