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Kindle Author interview about Kings of the F**king Sea and Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt.

Thanks to Michael Davidson (aka. Herocious) for interviewing me for Kindle Author. I liked his questions. Like this one:

5)  Is ignorance bliss? Not really. When people don’t know what is going on, bad things happen. Like the Great Recession. That happened because no one was watching the banks rape and pillage ordinary citizens who wanted to pursue the American Dream and own homes. There are other examples of this, but in general, ignorance is awful. My novel and my first full-length book of poetry deal with this a lot.

The Esoterrorist names Kings of the F**king Sea a favorite of 2011.

 

The Essoterrorist

The Esoterrorist names Kings of the F**king Sea a favorite of 2011.

Hope I can live up to their expectations. Here is what they say:

Dan Boehl – Kings of the Fucking Sea

The strength of Boehl’s debut book of poetry is just that: it’s a debut.  His voice is fresh and ripe with experimentation and with unabashed vulnerability, all of which we attribute to his youth and fresh face but at the same time hope that he can maintain as he develops his craft.

My interview on the Fruitcake Files!

Check out my interview on the Fruitcake Files. Thanks to Jude for asking the questions!

Where do you get your ideas?
My ideas arise from settings.  I grew up in the country outside of Baltimore, MD and York, PA.  Many of my stories have a country attitude.  Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt came about because I traded the story to my friend Naomi for a T-Shirt.  I asked her what kind of story she wanted and the book arose from her request.

Check out this HTML Giant interview with Katie Smither!

Thanks to Katie Smither for taking the time to interview me on HTML Giant about Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt.

Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt cover T-shirt in Black.

“Upon cover glance, it looks like reading “Double Rainbow,” Lisa Frank, and Dark Side of the Moon at once. After reading though, I was surprisingly left pondering our “war on terror,” the economic meltdown, Occupy Wall Street, and the euro crisis. Or Google-searching to see if “Pre-Chicken Nugget Paste” really exists, because Naomi provides descriptions of all things pasty, “for breakpaste, plunch, and dinner,” with an awareness of current corporate and economic issues I didn’t expect from something marketed specifically for youth.”

Noami and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt available November 15!

Six years in the making, traded to Naomi Tuchman for a t-shirt with a horse on the front, my first novel Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt will be available on November 15 in print and on Amazon Kindle readers and Kindle enabled smartphones and iPads. A sample of the book is available on the book page.

Here is a bit more about Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt:

Endless Ranches is a town like any other town in Texas. Everybody works for the Paste Company, eats paste for breakpaste, plunch and dinner, and walks to work. But things were different before the factory came to town and all of the horses disappeared.

Fourteen-year-old Naomi knows something is not quite right, but nobody talks about it. Naomi’s mom changes the subject when she asks about Naomi’s missing father and one of her teachers disappears after he tells the class about the town’s past. But on her birthday Naomi’s mother gives her an amazing gift that unlocks the truth about Endless Ranches: her father’s horse-flavored T-shirt. Accompanied by Sammy, a teenaged farmer forced to steal paste so he can feed his brothers and sisters, Naomi uncovers a devious Paste Company plot to subdue the townspeople and raise an army of mindless White People.

Gordon Massman’s Review of Kings.

Check out this review of Kings of the F**king Sea by Gordon Massman!

“I would love to see more of Boehl, how, for instance, he would treat erotic love, relationships, family, parenting. I think he would be profound, provocative, and intensely interesting. Kings of the F**king Sea is an amazing in its own right, but I think a precursor to even deeper insight into human existence.”

 

Check out this nice review of Kings by Brooklyn Copeland.

A nice review of Kings by Brooklyn Copeland:

“If you read this book, you will be confronted by a guy who is smart enough and real enough to figure out how to reach across the aisle and confront you. Seriously. It’s a book I’d hand to any non-reader and say, “This is what poetry can do for you these days.”‘

Best American Poetry Blog interview with Ben Mirov.

The BAP Blog interview with Ben Mirov:

“Kings of the Fucking Sea, Dan Boehl’s new poetry collection from Birds LLC, is a phantasmagoric adventure about dissolution, loss and pirates. I talked to him about the role of painters in his work, the considerations in putting together a first book of poetry and his writing process (which did not involve a parrot or an eye patch).”

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