More Publication News from My Cohort

My Running Wild Press cohort is filled with talented authors writing with great variety. I’m very pleased to share the news of Suzanne Mattaboni’s new release: Once in a Lifetime published by TouchPoint Press.

In 1984, punk is rampant. Andy Warhol rules. And 20-year-old art student Jessica is sick of all the excitement going on without her. Hungry for the life she’s convinced is just beyond her fingertips, she sets her sights on an avant-garde study abroad program in London she can’t afford. Meanwhile, hometown boyfriend Drew wants to see other people if he’s not exciting enough to keep her stateside. Jess and her buddies rent a beat-up apartment, trolling new wave clubs and waitressing double shifts in New Hope, PA, a cool and artsy restaurant town on the river, to scrounge-up tuition money. Then Jess meets Whit, a steamy daredevil guitarist who crawls through her window and makes her head spin like a record. The girls deal with cheating waiters, mystics, a military drag queen buddy, a Svengali bouncer, and the specter of AIDs. Before long, Jess has to decide if the men in her life will leave her as damaged as her cracked-glass mosaic art projects—and whether they’ll stand in the way of her dream semester in New Wave London.

Kirkus Reviews calls Once in a Lifetime an “ebullient and engaging story of youthful longing and independence. An enjoyable, starry-eyed coming-of-age tale.”

Here’s what Jess, the main character, says: “I’ve waited long enough for my life to happen. I want to be neck-deep in something that keeps me up all night. Something so cool I’ll be petrified and sick to my stomach at the mere thought of it. I want to absolutely fry in inspiration, then capture it in oils and charcoals and bits of broken glass, in a piece of art that oozes magic and fear and possibility. I want to find a city. An adventure. A song. Something. To hell with the American Dream. I want a reason to kick and scream.”

You can buy Once in a Lifetime from Amazon. 

You can also read Suzanne’s fine short story in Running Wild Press Anthology of Stories Vol. 2, available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Bookshop.org.

Find out more about Suzanne’s works and connect with her at:

onceinalifetimenovel.com

suzannemattaboni.com

Twitter @suzmattaboni

facebook.com/suzanne.mattaboni

Instagram suzannemattaboni, Suzanne Mattaboni80s

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Congratulations on this exciting news, Suzanne!