Oh no! I hope you get through it quickly.

Thank you so much for this thoughtful review, Joan.

If you'd like a peek into that, and into one of my favorite movies, the link is here: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-i...

...You can’t help but root for the brooding antihero, a tragically flawed gumshoe chasing a cold killer and an ocean-eyed dame. Who Killed One the Gun? pops off its pages like a sizzling band of hard-boiled bullets chasing a runaway jazz train.”

His beautifully written blurb of my book (in two parts): “Gigi Little has written a boozy love letter to a bygone era of noir detective radio plays. It’s Perry Mason meets Groundhog Day. A slick ticking time machine of a whodunit...

David also has a quirky wordplay-filled love story in The Untold Gaze and a wistful, sexy essay in the award-winning anthology Portland Queer. And he’s a wonderful writing teacher and an all-around lovely guy. I’m so glad to know him.

You can learn more about David from his website here:
www.davidciminello.com

A wonderful interview with David on KBOO’s Jonesy with host Ken Jones:
kboo.fm/media/122012...

Amy Wang’s great piece about David and the Queen of Steeplechase Park:
www.orartswatch.org/david-cimine...

The Queen of Steeplechase Park is a love letter to Coney Island in the thirties, to Italian Americans, and to Italian cooking. It is sumptuous and gorgeous and over the top in the very best way. Starred review in Kirkus:
www.kirkusreviews.com/author/david...

When I was considering pitching my novel to Forest Avenue Press, David’s book was one of the reasons I felt certain that my book, too, was a Forest Avenue Press book. I felt like our novels were cousins of sorts, both very voice-driven, both love letters to a piece of American history...

Thank you, Daniel. So glad your book has done so well and keeps finding new ways to be seen in the world.

The blurb: "Gigi Little’s prose ‘melts like honey on a hot biscuit.’ One the Gun, with all his quirky wit, makes you turn the page as you attempt to solve his unique quandary. Told in a charming style all its own, this debut novel was an absolute joy to read."

Brad is also a fabulous musician, a charming performer, and an expert carpenter. I think he could make lovely, quirky art out of anything he touched. I'm honored that he wrote a few lovely, quirky words about my book.

The novel he’s been working on more recently is brilliant and weird and full of his perfectly peculiar voice. If you’d like a sneak peek, come hear him read at le Salon Rouge in Portland on November 1 (7 pm, DM for address) where he’ll be giving us a bit of that work in progress...

I’m in love with his novel Bunkie Spills, not to mention the gorgeous short story he wrote for City of Weird, “Yay,” and the charming monocular ode he wrote for The Untold Gaze, , "A Tending to the Roses"... www.powells.com/book/bunkie-...