Nathan Gower

COVER REVEAL! 🎉🎉🎉 I’m so proud to share this gorgeous cover for my debut novel THE ACT OF DISAPPEARING (May 2024, @htp_books / @HarperCollins) You can PREORDER NOW from anywhere you buy books! (Direct links for preorder are on my website: nathangower.com

[taps mic] Is this thing on? Have been on a mental health break from this app, but wanted to share some happy news. Stepped away from my novel-in-progress for a moment to get back into the short story game. Happy to have this one forthcoming in the Bellevue Literary Review.

Just learned that my son thinks the line in Take Me Out to the Ball Game is “buy me some peanuts and flappercracks” and now I know what I will be singing for every 7th inning stretch during the playoffs.

Can’t wait to join so many other authors I admire. 💛📚

@borywrites Histories are often overlooked, but Henry IV part 1 is imho the best Shakespeare play. It is funny, sad, endearing, and tragic. Just so good

I am preparing for a big Shakespeare dive. Back in HS and college I was just not mature enough and didn’t care to read such “old shit.” I’m now older and wiser. Where should I start? Plays only, for now. Anything but Romeo and Juliet. I’m all ears.

@kylerseibel Something I’ve noticed is that @Aaron__Burch uses the phrase “have has had” in all his books.

Something I’ve noticed is that writers use the phrase “had had” once per book

Writing novels is 90% getting excited about a PERFECT new idea for a book and then discovering somebody already wrote it.

@RobMcDonaldVA Yep, my notes. Thanks so much for reading TAOD, Rob. Hope you enjoyed it!

@nngower Are these your notes? I just finished THE ACT OF DISAPPEARING. You keep on, my friend.

If you need me, I’ll be hiding until August 7. From clowns. I’ll be hiding from clowns.

THE ACT OF DISAPPEARING is out now in Australia 🇦🇺 + New Zealand 🇳🇿! The book is gorgeous, pictured here on the left with the US 🇺🇸version of the book on the right.

@kylerseibel So good, Kyle. Really dig your work

icymi i did a nice story

Hey friends, if you missed my Two Main Street interview with David James yesterday on NPR (WNIN, 83.3) and want to listen, here's the on-demand recording: news.wnin.org/2024-07-25/tms…

Had a wonderful chat with David James on Two Main Street about THE ACT OF DISAPPEARING. If you are in the @WNIN listening area, you can tune in to NPR (88.3) and listen @ 12 central 1 eastern. You can also stream live here: wnin.org/radio/listen-l…

Sent out my first advice post on how to send a query letter that gets a response from a literary agent, link in bio

okay now it’s time for why ANDY BESHEAR IS AN ICON AND SHOULD BE VP (a thread)

"I think if somebody calls you on that, what you do is at least listen. And I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like. Because let me just tell you that JD Vance ain't from here." — @GovAndyBeshear on the possibility of running for VP

In an effort to finally, deliberately quit this app (that I have promised to quit a dozen times), I made a newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/bukiebooks… Subscribe if you want to follow me on a text-based medium. Thanks!

Anyone who’s followed me very long knows my stance on Vance and what he is, and while I’m all for any moment of centering Appalachia, in the current moment much of the response strikes me more as a sales pitch and right now there are much, much bigger fish to fry.

I'm glad people are looking for other books about Appalachia, but I'm tired of seeing the same picks in all of these lists. There's a ton of great writing out there. Be more adventurous in your reading. Work for it. Don't rely on the predictable content of influencers.

Today's #2024Debuts #shelfie has a flowing smoky look. Such beautiful books! Authors and titles in thread.