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Something Special / Stories in the Key of C Minor

August 21, 2009

Big news:  Russell Bittner’s fiction collection, Stories in the Key of C. Minor. published by Faraway, is available for purchase for just $10.96.  An ebook version is also available for $5.00. 
Six stories, all of which start within a five-mile radius of 350 5th Avenue, the address of the Empire State Building, the original “Ground Zero.” [...]

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Something Special, Chapter SIX

August 19, 2009

And now for the final chapter of Russell Bittner’s novella, Something Special.  Bruce returns to his modeling agency in New York, where the press has picked up the story of a New Yorker’s death by bear mauling out in Yosemite.  Will Bruce be held accountable?

Back in New York, and after having alighted from the Lexington [...]

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Something Special, Chapter FOUR

August 15, 2009

As Bruce’s jealousy and disappointment grow over Angie’s dalliances with another young man at the hotel in Yosemite, dark plots begin to form in his mind in chapter four of Something Special.

I go immediately to our room in the expectation that a contrite Angie, finally reconciled to her ungratefulness, will be awaiting my arrival—hat in [...]

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An Interview with Russell Bittner, Part 2

August 14, 2009

Earlier this week we featured the first part of an interview with author Russell Bittner.  Bittner’s novella, Something Special, is being serialized on www.FarawayJournal.com throughout the month of August.  In this second part of the interview, Russell talks more specifically about his own work–the themes that appear, his settings, and the publishing process for his [...]

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Something Special, Chapter THREE

August 13, 2009

We are now into the middle chapters of Russell Bittner’s novella, Something Special.  Read chapters one and two.  In chapter three, now in Yosemite, Bruce’s carefully-laid plan begins to unravel, and things take a dark turn.

I put on my hiking boots, get some advice and a map from Meredith at the front desk, and set [...]

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An Interview with Russell Bittner, Part 1

August 11, 2009

Russell Bittner, author of the collection Stores in the Key of C.  Minor. recently took some time to answer some of my questions about the art and craft of writing and about the publishing world.  In this first part, Russell describes his writing process, his thoughts on literature, and how he uses language to effectively [...]

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Something Special – Chapter TWO

August 9, 2009

In our continuing coverage of the work of Russell Bittner, we now present the second chapter of the novella Something Special.  Click here to read chapter one, or continue below:

Not even two weeks later, I’m sitting next to Angie as we begin our decent into San Francisco’s international airport.  She snores like a marmot, her [...]

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Something Special – Chapter ONE

August 8, 2009

Something Special is a novella-length story by author Russell Bittner that is featured in the new collection, Stories in the Key of C.  Minor.  It is about Bruce, a middle-aged agent for models whose plans to spend a romantic weekend in the wilds of Yosemite with his gorgeous protege Angie go horribly awry.  Written with [...]

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Introducing Russell Bittner

August 7, 2009

Russell Bittner is a New York-based writer, whose collection Stories in the Key of C – Minor is being published by Faraway this month.  To allow Russell Bittner to introduce himself to our readers, we asked him to describe his writing career.
 
There’s my “career,” Daniel, and then there’s my career.  The first is what enables [...]

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