Local Author Announces the Release of New Short Story Collection

Mike Maggio, the author of deMockracy and Sifting Through the Madness, has just released a new collection of short fiction called The Keepers. The book  includes the critically-acclaimed “Suddenly, There Was Harold,” originally published in Atticus Review, and “The Toymaker,” a Christmas story of good cheer, first published as an Amazon Short. The title story is a gothic tale set in the 19th century.

Grace Cavalieri, Producer and Host of the Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress says of The Keepers that “our senses come alive with language, simple and true,”  and adds that “the short story is said to be a courtship with the read. If this is so, the reader will say, Yes.”

Madeleine Mysko, author of Bringing Vincent Home says “Mike Maggio the storyteller leans back in his comfy, authoritative omniscience and narrates in a voice that is familiar and charming,” adding that “the reader is immediately taken in, only later to recall that it is from the familiar that the surprise jumps out – and also, sometimes, the delicious terror.”

And Nathan Leslie, author of Night Sweat and Driver says that The Keepers “straddles the line between the lyrical and the caustic” and says that “with the deft touch of a poet, Maggio’s imaginative fiction pulls you in and won’t let go.  These stories offer a rich landscape for those just now discovering his work. “

Signed copies of the book are available for $9.00 plus shipping. Contact the author at mikemaggio@mikemaggio.net for more information or to schedule an appearance.

Reviewers and literary magazines may request copies by contacting March Street Press publisher Robert Bixby at rbixby@earthlink.net.