Isn't She Pretty in Pink? /  by Tim Lane

A couple friends have decided that it would be fun to imagine which 80s actors might have played the main characters of Your Silent Face if the novel had come out back then. A young Tom Cruise, maybe, or Andrew McCarthy? Molly Ringwald or Cyndi Lauper (yes, I know, she wasn’t an actor)?

Anyway, it’s been fun to entertain, and here’s what they’ve come up with so far.

Stuart: John Cusack

The Viking: Val Kilmer

Nigel:

Karen: Molly Ringwald

Brenda:

Susan:

Cammie:

Phil: Timothy Hutton

J Dog:

James:

The Body Builder:

Uncle Charles:

Grandpa Norcross:

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Your Silent Face is also available at the Apple Book Store for your apple devices.

Who Is Nigel Ritter? (or Making Plans for Nigel) /  by Tim Lane

“I used to think that life was like being a passenger on the Titanic, and love was a life boat. But then one night I heard this horrifying screeching. It was chilling and unmistakable. Clearly, an animal was dying in the street. I came out of the house and saw love lying under the streetlight. It had just been run over by a car. Blood was squirting everywhere. It wasn’t pretty, but it was real. I forced myself to watch love die.”
— Nigel Ritter, YSF

Nigel Ritter

Brenda’s son. A Flint East-sider, like Stuart. A chess player with an official ranking of an expert. Favorite band: Joy Division. Favorite poet: André Breton. Favorite book: Surrealist Manifesto, by André Breton. Likes: Surrealist poetry, Stroh’s beer, The Crucifucks.

Your Silent Face is available at the Apple Book Store for your Apple Book app, as well.

Who Is Stuart Page? /  by Tim Lane

I’m going to post tiny introductions this week to some of the characters from Your Silent Face (which is also now available at the Apple Book Store).

Obviously, gotta start with the narrator, since it’s his “cassette.”

“I found it interesting how select shit like sending a wet bathing suit down the clothes chute or picking the stewed tomatoes out of the spaghetti sauce was unthinkable in this house but allowing the neighborhood kids to press their gross noses against the screen while we tried to eat dinner in peace was acceptable.”
— Stuart Page, YSF

Stuart Page is a first gen college student who grew up in the 70s and 80s on the East Side of Flint, Michigan. Generally speaking, Flint’s reputation of being a tough, hard-drinking, blue-collar General Motors town precedes any discussion of its history and contributions to American cultural.

Stuart is perhaps first and foremost a New Wave music geek, but he’s been influenced by others and has other areas of interest, as well. Like chess.

He’s a product of working class people and a Catholic school education.

He obsesses upon the artistry and suicide of Ian Curtis, the leader singer of defunct British post punk band, Joy Division.

Stuart is the cassette upon which the story of Your Silent Face has been recorded. He’s home, back on the East Side, after his freshman year of college. The whole story unspools from his head. The ghosts of his memories compete for just as much air time as his current observations.

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Hey, man! I Read Your Novel! It totally _____! /  by Tim Lane

Love my debut novel, hate it, couldn’t finish it, need to give me a high five, need to drive by and scream at me as I’m walking down Michigan Avenue—leave a review at my Amazon page! Or email me; I’ll feature it in a blog post.

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Grab the novel at Amazon, the Apple Book Store, or here at the website.

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Empty Intersection /  by Tim Lane

Fall is here, in Michigan, and it’s amazing. My heart goes out to everyone who is dealing with the fires. I can’t imagine it. But I am paying attention.

It feels weird to be done with YSF. I spent six years working on it (seriously hope my next novel does not take that long haha). It was an everyday part of my life. I would write in the mornings before going to my day job, and then tinker in the evenings. I would give myself the weekends off, but would ultimately wind up putting in some hours.

If I wasn’t at the keyboard, the process was always spinning away in my mind.

Part of me feels a sense of freedom to relax for a minute. Part of me feels like I just witnessed a head-on-collision at an empty intersection, and both vehicles quickly limped away.

Leaving behind the sounds of cars on a nearby expressway, birds, the moment.

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