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.

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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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