Tales of Pleasant Grove is Published!

By Steve Peck | May 10, 2018

Are you ready?

Tales from Pleasant Grove

By Steven L. Peck

You’ve never read short stories like this. Really.

- Dragons asleep in Battle Creek?

- Knife fights as a Relief Society lesson?

- The Icelandic Fay Queen of Mount Baldy?

A Pinewood Derby like none you’ve ever seen

Get ready for a new look at Pleasant Grove. Familiar. Yet stranger than you can imagine.

Check it out now on Amazon

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Gilda Trillim wins Association of Mormon Letters 2017 Novel Award

By Steve Peck | March 27, 2018

I’m pleased to announce that Gilda Trillim was selected as the Association of Mormon Letters’ 2017 Novel Award at Friday’s award ceremony. Previously, I posted this for groups wanting to read it, and this award is further evidence that it is worth reading. You are probably thinking that it was selected as the winner because it has rats in the title. Everyone knows, rats sway judges. It was almost unseemly of me putting the word ‘rats’ on the cover of the book. You may think it was a gimmick to get people to buy it and to help it play well on the awards circuit (I, however, deny that it had any role in being nominated as an AML finalist AND a Whitney Award finalist. It was just a coincidence!). Now that it has won the big award, some will likely accuse me of just pandering to the rat loving public. A crass attempt to affect its getting undo attention, but that’s just not the case. The rats in it are not just gratuitous rat-placement. No! Their presence is central to the plot.
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To celebrate Gilda Trillim being a finalist for the Whitney Award and the AML Award for Best Novel let’s take a visit to some of the book’s locations

By Steve Peck | February 24, 2018

Join me! To celebrate Gilda Trillim’s being a finalist for both the AML Best novel award and the Whitney Award, I’ve contacted Kattrim Mender and obtained some photos of his/her’s travels visiting some of the places where the events of Gilda Trillim’s life took place. Of course, we can never be a hundred percent sure, but I think some of these are a good attempt to be accurate. Some are photos from Kit’s travels others were obtained at various websites.

Here are some pictures of the Lena River in Russia where Gilda did many of her apple seed paintings at the Orthodox convent where she lived for a year. …

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