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author johnshore com top of page award winning author john shore home newsletter everywhere she s not about unfair cs contact blog newsletter i m now writing a newsletter and blog on substack click below to visit don t worry about subscribing it s all free and ad free winner best new fiction american fiction award finalist publishers weekly booklife prize finalist first novel indie book awards deeply engrossing a highly satisfying reading experience shore s prose is nearly transparent which is extremely high praise the writing is so stylistically on target that the language itself falls away allowing the reader to enter into the subtleties of the story completely shore s protagonist is authentically funny and rawly sympathetic this novel stands apart for its originality it is a testament to the notion that the strongest works are often those with simple storylines exceptionally told publisher s weekly booklife prize buy on amazon buy from your indy bookstore everywhere she s not now available buy on amazon ask john about me i m an author and editor i was born in nashville lived for decades in california and now reside in the southern appalachian city of asheville nc i ve written an award winning novel everywhere she s not 2019 a then ground breaking book refuting the notion that being gay is a sin unfair 2013 and a book about punctuation comma sense 2007 which i co wrote with renowned grammarian richard lederer from 2007 until i shut it down in 2014 to write my novel i wrote a personal blog that was simultaneously published on my website and on the huffington post that blog received more than 400 000 unique views a month which made me for some five years running one of the most read writers in america which sounds like an insane thing to say i know but there it is from april 2016 until i concluded the story in november 2017 i wrote for the asheville citizen times part of the usa today network ashes to asheville the first real time serial novel ever to be published on the website of a major daily newspaper from oct 2016 through 2019 i also wrote for the citizen times a popular advice column ask john for years before any of that work i was a freelance magazine and newspaper writer and editor i wrote and edited for the san diego union tribune kpbs san diego the reader and san diego magazine among others communicating the truth as best as i understand it has always been the primary drive behind my writing as much as i have wanted to tell my own stories i ve wanted even more to help others tell theirs that s been the driving impetus behind most every aspect of my writing career in august of 1981 i married the love of my life catherine cat a genius of a human being who has yet to awaken in the morning look over at me and say that s it i m out i don t know why that hasn t happened yet i don t ask cat is the finance director for a nonprofit that serves victims of domestic violence the touching brave and frequently heartbreaking letters in unfair christians and the lgbt question should be required reading for any christian who claims that gay people can t also be christians and for lgbt people who feel there s some conflict between their sexual orientations or gender identities and their faith john shore is sharp he s funny and he s right i challenge anyone who believes that the bible justifies the persecution of their gay and lesbian neighbors particularly those on the religious right who ve made lucrative careers for themselves out of bearing false witness against their gay and lesbian neighbors to read this book dan savage founder it gets better host savange lovecast john shore is awesome and a brilliant writer the minute i started reading his stuff i knew he was a brother from another mother rob bell love wins john shore is a gadfly calling the christian church everywhere to act the way it says it believes about love and justice which of course makes him an uncomfortable presence in those churches that do not like to be forced to face reality so were the prophets of old so was jesus of nazareth john shelby spong amen a book that gives voice to the thousands of lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning people who have been told they must sacrifice their identity to be christian believe out loud buy from amazon comma sense is a clear entertaining and just plain helpful guide to the american rules of punctuation lynne truss 1 new york times bestselling author of eats shoots leaves of my 465 books on punctuation i ve read them all comma sense is the wisest and funniest it s the only one you really need bryan a garner author of garner s modern american usage a thorough field guide to the pesky little critters of the punctuation forest lederer and shore hit the marks bill walsh author of the elephants of style who else would call the exclamation point this titan of tingle this prince of palpitation who else would call the apostrophe the jesse james of punctuation who else would compare the dash to fred astaire the semicolon to duke ellington and parentheses yes my darlings to louella parsons it can only be richard lederer viceroy of verbivores and his trusty sidekick john shore patricia t o conner author of woe is i punctuation needn t be perplexing or painful as richard lederer and john shore make abundantly clear comma sense is full of easy to understand guidance for the grammatically challenged and loads of laughs besides martha barnette co host of nationally syndicated radio show a way with words writing well is important for business but it also can be crucial in love the writers warn do you want to say i would like to tell you that i love you i can t stop thinking that you are one of the prettiest women on earth or i would like to tell you that i love you i can t stop thinking that you are one of the prettiest women on earth as lederer and shore say punctuation can mean the difference between a second date and a restraining order margo hammond st petersburg times buy from 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