by Tommy Zurhellen | Nov 19, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest, Writing
I. Conflict Writers are taught there is magic in the number three: your play needs three acts, your joke needs two priests and a rabbi, and your storybook needs Three Little Pigs to be complete. If that book was called The Forty-Seven Little Pigs, I guess there...
by Tommy Zurhellen | Jan 23, 2014 | Book Excerpts, Press Releases
Editor’s Note: Today we release the cover of Armageddon, Texas, the third and final volume of The Messiah Trilogy (October 2014). To celebrate the cover release, we have chosen the following excerpt to share with our readers. It is an excerpt from a chapter...
by Baker Lawley | Jul 3, 2013 | Of Literary Interest
This summer, Atticus author Tommy Zurhellen is driving across the country, from New York to Seattle, to read at local bookstores and libraries in support of the second book in his award-winning Messiah Trilogy, Apostle Islands. He’ll check in with us from time to...
by Atticus Books | May 20, 2013 | Of Literary Interest, Press Releases
MADISON, N.J. — Atticus author Tommy Zurhellen is writing his way across the country with his Messiah Trilogy, a modern retelling of the New Testament, spanning the North Dakota Badlands to the shores of Lake Erie. Last year, Zurhellen’s debut novel, Nazareth, North...
by Tommy Zurhellen | Oct 4, 2012 | Book Excerpts
It’s right around midnight when the booze runs out. There’s always that scary window at a party when folks are drunk enough to pick fights but not drunk enough to do everyone else a favor and just pass out. I’ve sat through enough wedding receptions to know they turn...