Cover Reveal!!!!
Coming February 28, 2023, is a collection of short stories written by Leah Angstman. Today, I'm excited to reveal the beautiful cover to you and offer a giveaway!
Enter to win an ARC of Shoot the Horses First & horsey prize pack! The giveaway is open to the US only and ends on July 26th. You must be 18 or older to enter.
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About the book:
Through a historian’s lens and folkloric storytelling, the pieces in Shoot the Horses First revel in the nuances, brutality, mythology, and tiny victories of our historical past. A launderer takes us inside the linens of the richest families in early Baltimore. A child on the Orphan Train has his teeth inspected like a horse. Civil War soldiers experience PTSD. While one woman lands on an island of the Wampanoag tribe, a woman 200 years later finds Apache in a harsh frontier. Children survive yellow fever, the desert heat, and mistaken identities; men survive severed fingers, untested medicines, and wives with obsessive compulsive disorders. Frederick Douglass’ grandson plays violin at the World’s Fair on Colored American Day, a woman with disabilities is kept hidden away like she doesn’t exist, and a botanist is denied her place in a science journal because she is female. Themes of place, war, mental illness, identity, disability, feminism, and unyielding optimism throughout harrowing desperation resurface in this collection of stories that takes us back to time immemorial, yet feels so close, and all too familiar.
Author Info:
Leah Angstman is also the author of the historical novel of
seventeenth-century New England, Out Front the Following Sea, available now
from Regal House, and the novel of the French Revolution, Falcon in the Dive,
forthcoming from Regal House in spring 2024. She serves as the executive editor
for Alternating Current Press and The Coil magazine and is a founding
Quartermaster member of the American Battlefield Trust. Her work has appeared
in numerous journals, including Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Review of Books,
and The Nashville Review. She’s recently been a finalist for the Laramie Book
Award, Chaucer Book Award, Eric Hoffer Book Award, National Indie Excellence
Award, Da Vinci Eye Award, Clue Book Award, Richard Snyder Memorial Prize,
Cowles Book Prize, and Able Muse Book Award; a semifinalist for the Goethe Book
Award; and longlisted for the Hillary Gravendyk Prize. This is her first collection
of short stories.
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Thank you to HF Virtual Book Tours for including me in this cover reveal and giveaway.
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