Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
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Writer, Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT coming 3-3-26 from @cowboyjamboree Some Days are Better than Ours @reflexfiction
Kerry via San Francisco
Joined February 2015
The face of an old woman whose first novel will be published in the spring
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There's all these weird book marketers which may be AI creeping me out in my emails
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The coolest memoir you'll read this year just landed. Get your hands on Burke De Boer's SONGS OF THE CYBERSPACE CATTLE DRIVE and thank us later. Out now from CJ Press: https://t.co/sFalVkZK5U
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i was hemming and hawing last night (24.99 euro in Ireland) while doing my grocery shopping. Left without one but went back and got myself one of the sage green ones along with a casserole dish
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Why are there so many evil motherfuckers in this world?
Rich ‘sniper tourists’ allegedly paid $90K to shoot civilians — including kids — during ‘human safari’ trips to Sarajevo https://t.co/jcIqwSNlaI
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ICYMI amid yesterday's detritus, CJ put out a new issue!!!
Cowboy Jamboree's Fall issue is live y'all. We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions. https://t.co/o1fUaptEIv
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My first novel, A Question of Family, comes out @StanchionZine. Preorder here:
stanchionzine.com
STANCHION'S FIRST NOVEL! From François Bereaud, the acclaimed writer of San Diego Stories, comes a novel told in stories that span eras. Meet Walter, Claire, Grace, and Michael, a family in some...
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WEST OF DESTRY by @kevingrauke is out today from Cowboy Jamboree Press! This town, these characters, this land. We dig everything about this one. You will too. https://t.co/hu117xC733
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An update on where you can purchase The Marionette and the Maestro (along with a pic of me and my great friend Antoinette McGough) It's available from Chapters Book Store, Books Upstairs, Hodges Figgis, Charlie Byrne's, O'Mahony's Booksellers, Kenmare Book Shop and Kennys.
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I wouldn't be flying into JFK or O'Hare or any other very busy international airport for the foreseeable if I were you.
BREAKING FOX NEWS: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy goes on the record: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
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I wrote a thing on Insta and FB about the etiquette of tagging authors in book reviews, and I thought some of you might want to see it. It's a bit of a long thread for X purposes so bear with me, and please take it in the very collegiate spirit in which it was written (ducks!)...
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Making your naughty and nice list? This fits either! All proceeds go to charity! Coming soon...
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Trad publishing is eating its own corpse. Simon & Schuster is suing Nelson DeMille’s estate $1.2 million because he died. He didn’t finish the third book in a deal before dying of cancer. But that doesn’t matter to trad publishers. Imagine spending your whole life writing
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I think good minimalist prose is infinitely more difficult to write
The trouble with complex prose is just that it is complex: don't try this at home. Now that every other person on the planet is a writer, it makes perfect sense that minimalism dominates. For most, there is no aesthetic choice involved; they write the sentences they can.
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It really is an astounding novel!
Doing my FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL, FUCKING FINAL , FINALLY draft of my book and realizing I wrote an amazing novel and I'm really proud of myself and I hope people read it and love it too. Out March 3rd
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If you're looking to 1) support an indie business, 2) receive 12 books in 2026, 3) get 4 exclusive gifts & 4) be invited to private zoom chats with authors, the 2026 Stanchion Book Club might be for you! Makes a great gift, too. Receive a welcome letter + bonus book immediately!
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Doing my FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL, FUCKING FINAL , FINALLY draft of my book and realizing I wrote an amazing novel and I'm really proud of myself and I hope people read it and love it too. Out March 3rd
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Write Arizona. Read Arizona. Promote Arizona writers and regionalist aesthetics.
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Always problematic on the dancefloor but coolio nonetheless https://t.co/xnt8XVMaEp
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Great book here. Get yourselves a copy!
I think it's about time I remind everybody that this is out ... and wink wink, a little review, folks?
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