ARC outreach to Reviewers & Booksellers Buzz-building campaign including Galley Giveaways Southeastern Author Tour National Online Advertising Social Media Outreach include Facebook, Twitter & Instagram Author Website: www.thomasjmcconnell.com
Thomas McConnell's work has appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Cortland Review and Shenandoah, among other publications. He has received the South Carolina Academy of Authors Fiction Fellowship, the Hackney National Literary Award for the Short Story, and his story collection A Picture Book of Hell and Other Landscapes was published by Texas Tech University Press. He teaches English at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
"At one point in this strikingly original and beautifully told
novel of Czechoslovakia during the Second World War, the hero,
Viktor Trn, an unassuming professor, is told, 'It is necessary that
you teach history.' And that is precisely what Thomas McConnell,
author of The Wooden King, has done in this moving, fast-paced tale
of a man caught in in the world’s most tragic cataclysm. Read it
and, like the history it lays bare, you won’t forget it."
*Peter Golden*
"It is a beautiful burden to read this master writer's tale. The
Wooden King is for the best of readers, historians, and those who
want to change the future."
*Emöke B’Racz, Store Owner and Founder*
"The Wooden King is a profound and timely meditation on one man
caught between allegiance to his family and to his country. Thomas
McConnell vividly renders the dark ironies of history, but readers
will encounter compassion, decency, and courage also. What an
excellent debut!"
*Ron Rash, author of The Risen*
"The Wooden King serves as a sober reminder of the perils of
complacency and inaction in the face of injustice and oppression.
Thomas McConnell has given us a powerful and important book."
*—Joseph Kertes, author of The Afterlife*
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