Biography
Phoebe Kate Foster is an editor, journalist, fiction writer and poet presently living on the coast of North Carolina in an old house with a 160,000+ acre backyard, courtesy of a national forest. She was raised in central Florida, Nashville TN and NYC, and thereafter was smitten with wanderlust and lived all over the country. She is a former Associate Books Editor for Pop Matters, an online magazine of global culture, and currently the Assistant Editor at The Dead Mule, a Southern literary e-zine.
Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, published in anthologies and appeared in Prairie Schooner, Eclectica, Slow Trains, Flashquake, Vestal Review, Spillway Review, Carve, Wilmington Blues, Word Riot, Electric Acorn (Ireland), Ghoti, Half Drunk Muse, Arabesques Literary Review (Algeria), Niederngasse, Tattoo Highway and 3711 Atlantic, among others.
Her favorite place is Mount Shasta, California. Her favorite writer of all time is John Cheever. Her biggest accomplishment is having raised three children who are now her best friends. Her fondest dream is to live in India for a year. Her lifelong goal is to produce fully realized prose and poetry that challenges and startles readers and haunts them for the rest of their lives.
She owes a great debt of gratitude to her sisterwoman, artist/writer Valerie MacEwan, for designing this blog and for always being with her on life’s cruise down the River of Strange. Phoebe Kate’s mama and daddy didn’t give her a sister, but God eventually did.
Hi Phoebe
My name is Jonathan Trenn and I’m a marketing and PR type and I’m doing some work for a client, Perry Trouche, who just completed his first book, The Mule Shoe. It’s a novel and not a historical analysis.
Mules seem to be popular in Southern Literature. ; )
The book centers around a young Confederate soldier from South Carolina, Conner DuMont, who is struggling mightily from his family past while now living with and fighting alongside his unit at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House. The book is named after the Confederacy’s weakest point in the battle. His past somewhat debilitates him as he continually recollects voices of his family and the slave they owned while he was growing up in coastal South Carolina.
The depiction of the horrific battles are riveting as they were some of the most hard fought in the war. Conner is right in the middle of it, battling both his personal demons and the advancing Union Army. The author elegantly describes Conner’s fellow soldiers, a group of hardscrabble fighters dedicated to their cause all for their own personal reasons.
Again, I’d like to send you a copy of the book to have you read and review it. If you can’t do that or don’t want to I understand. Please let me know what you’d like to do. I’ll be happy to send you a copy and/or arrange an interview with Perry is you so desire.
The link for the book is here:
http://www.starcloudpress.com/MuleShoe.html
Thanks very much.
Jonathan Trenn