How to Survive Your First Year of College: Autumn Quarter, aka SHATTERING GLASS
PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE — 2012, SEPTEMBER 10TH
Chicago Meets Flint in New Experimental Novel
Flint, MI / September 10, 2012 – The Gothic Funk Press will be publishing the first installment of Flint-based author Connor Coyne’s novel Shattering Glass on September 21st. The novel will be released in eight once-a-week installments available for 99 cents apiece to anyone with a Kindle or an internet connection. Complete electronic and printed book editions will be available before the end of 2012.
Shattering Glass is an avant-garde romp through four students’ first term of college, in which they face the exotic threats of a new university where memories and time are converted into electricty, as well as more mundane issues like expensive tuition and romantic entanglements. Ezzie is almost paralyzed by social anxiety, Samo has to overcome his poor high school grades, Dunya faces dropout if she can’t obtain financial aid, and Monty is obsessed with the new college’s secrets. The novel combines many features of Coyne’s hometown of Flint, and his alma mater of the University of Chicago, in the fictitious city of Arkaic, Michigan. Up-to-date information on Shattering Glass is available at http://tinyurl.com/shatteringglassnovel.
The novel will be officially launched at the Good Beans Cafe, 328 Grand Traverse St., Flint, on Friday, September 21st at 7 PM. Organizers are requesting a $5 donation to help fund future projects of the Gothic Funk Press.
The Gothic Funk Press has also filmed a promotional video, featuring the music of Flint-based electronic folk duo Arlow Xan. The video was filmed at the Atlas Coney Island, throughout Flint, and on the campus of the University of Chicago, and can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/shatteringglassvideo1.
About the Author
Connor Coyne’s first novel Hungry Rats, published in 2010,has been hailed by Heartland prize-winner Jeffery Renard Allen as “an emotional and aesthetic tour de force.” Coyne’s work has also been published in Santa Clara Review, Moria Poetry Zine, the Flint Broadside, and The Saturnine Detractor. After spending fourteen years in Chicago and New York City, Coyne has returned home to Flint, Michigan, with his wife Jessica and their daughter Mary. They live in the College Cultural neighborhood, where he grew up, and is excited to resume participation in Flint’s thriving arts scene.
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General Information on Shattering Glass: http://tinyurl.com/shatteringglassnovel