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A.S. King
MONICA NEVER SHUTS UP		http://www.as-king.com

A.S. King recently returned from Ireland, where she spent a long time dividing herself between self-sufficiency, teaching literacy to adults, breeding rare poultry, and writing. She now lives in beautiful Berks County, Pennsylvania. More kind words for A.S. King's WHY PEOPLE TAKE PICTURES: "A.S. King has shouldered the true work of the novelist—to show us something deeply strange yet utterly familiar, to deliver a message about our hearts from a place beyond our imagining —and she has succeeded entirely. Why People Take Pictures is Why People Read Books." ~ Jon Clinch, author of FINN Recent Sales: A.S. King's THE DUST OF 100 DOGS, about a notorious 17th century pirate reincarnated as a girl genius determined to reclaim her buried treasure, having lived the last three hundred years as an assortment of dogs, to Andrew Karre at Flux, by Gary Heidt at FinePrint Literary Management (world). THE DUST OF 100 DOGS PUB DATE HAS BEEN MOVED UP TO FEBRUARY 2009! Advance praise for THE DUST OF 100 DOGS: The Dust of 100 Dogs is a non-traditional pirate tale with a dangerously raw, mystical edge and a unique modern twist that will make you cringe, despair, despise and adore. Deliciously fresh and starkly unforgettable... for at least the next three hundred years. –Lisa McMann, NYT bestselling author of WAKE "Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. A rich tale of a girl born with a compass firmly planted in her hand. A.S. King is a force to be reckoned with. I'd follow Saffron into the briny deep." -Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod MORE COOL STUFF HERE. Ask about Amy's recently completed story collection, MONICA NEVER SHUTS UP. (Twelve stories featuring a Humboldt Squid, a giant cow, two yachts, a six-pack of Fresca, and Monica, who never shuts up.)

GENRES & SPECIALTIES

General fiction, Literary

MOST RECENT PROJECTS

Flash story TULIPS will appear in the spring issue of The Smoking Poet.

Short story I AM MOMMY has been published in Literary Mama (February 2008.) READ IT HERE.

Short story LEROY CAN TELL YOU WHEN is in the Winter 2008 issue of FRiGG. READ IT HERE.

Short story HARRY'S GIANT is in the January/February 2008 issue of Eclectica. READ IT HERE.

Short story RAUL SHOWS ME THINGS is in the October issue of Word Riot.

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Short story RIVER 16 has been published in Eclectica.

Short story MONICA NEVER SHUTS UP in Washington Square Summer 2007 issue.

An excerpt from WHY PEOPLE TAKE PICTURES is now up at The Huffington Post. READ IT HERE.

The same excerpt was used by iVillage.

Short story HOW I BECAME MY FATHER was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award 2007.

Story CAN YOU SEE LOIS GARDENING? has been published on Amarillo Bay, August 2007.

Short-short story SKIN has been published in Underground Voices, August 2007.

More story links on the A.S. King website .

PROJECTS ON OFFER/ PROPOSALS AVAILABLE

WHY PEOPLE TAKE PICTURES - Jessica is a sardonic twenty-two-year-old stoner working in a photo lab printing mostly porn for seven bucks an hour. One day, after having a tooth extracted, she discovers she can hear what people in pictures are thinking.

"A.S. King has shouldered the true work of the novelist—to show us something deeply strange yet utterly familiar, to deliver a message about our hearts from a place beyond our imagining —and she has succeeded entirely. Why People Take Pictures is Why People Read Books."

~ Jon Clinch, author of FINN

"A.S. King is a rocket and in Why People Take Pictures the author has crafted a cryptogram of a novel that will take readers for a wild ride, leaving them guessing at every turn."

~ Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Vertigo

MONICA NEVER SHUTS UP - Short Story Collection. (Twelve stories featuring a Humboldt Squid, a giant cow, two yachts, a six-pack of Fresca, and Monica, who never shuts up.)

SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS

Finalist in Washington Square fiction contest 2007. ("Monica Never Shuts Up.")
Finalist in Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award 2007. ("How I Became My Father.")

Short Fiction has been published in Washington Square, Eclectica, Word Riot, Amarillo Bay, Literary Mama, Underground Voices, The Huffington Post, and FRiGG.

Poetry has appeared in The Arabesques Review, Melange, Natural Bridge, The Kilkenny Broadsheet.

Non-Fiction and photography in Sunday Times/Sunday Tribune Irish Interiors magazine 1996-1999

Member: BACKSPACE, SCBWI

AGENT

Gary Heidt
FinePrint Literary Management

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