With CURRENCY‘s release date only about two months away, I feel like I’m at the tail end of a veeeeeeeeeeeery long pregnancy, and labor has just begun. The final proof has been completed. Events are being set up. Preorder is available. A Facebook page has been created. (Please become a fan.) And thanks to Max [...]
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CURRENCY news
Posted in CURRENCY, Facebook, fiction, Thailand, Uncategorized, tagged CURRENCY, Facebook, fiction, Thailand, travel, writing process on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In Which I Consider Thai Prophylactics
Posted in backpacking, CURRENCY, memory lane, solo women traveling, Thailand, tagged backpacking, CURRENCY, memory lane, solo women traveling, Thailand, writing process on February 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
So I last wrote about my first day traveling truly alone in Thailand, in which I was tricked into lodging at the wrong guesthouse, hit up for money by an odd teenager, and hounded by tuk-tuk drivers as I attempted to tour the ruins by foot, only to end up by late afternoon drinking with [...]
Kind Words for CURRENCY
Posted in CURRENCY, fiction, Thailand, writing process, tagged CURRENCY, fiction, Thailand, writing process on December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“From skins to skin to golden Buddhas, CURRENCY is a moving and lucid look at how beauty can fall prey to our very love of it.” —Alex Shakar, author of The Savage Girl “From the first page to the last, Zoe Zolbrod’s CURRENCY had me hooked. I loved the boldness of voice, the visceral and [...]
Strip Bars, Sex Workers, Here and Then and There
Posted in CURRENCY, memory lane, Parenting, sex industry, Thailand, travel on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My novel CURRENCY is about a Thai man and American woman who have a hard time unraveling their genuine connection from sticky assumptions about money, gender, sex, and nationality. The book is set in Thailand, where the sex industry informs the way foreign and local men and women look at each other, but the protagonist [...]
Acknowledging
Posted in backpacking, CURRENCY, fiction, memory lane, Thailand, travel, writing process, tagged backpacking, CURRENCY, fiction, journals, memory lane, Thailand, travel on October 18, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I just sent the copyedited manuscript of CURRENCY to Gina, my editor. The next time I see the novel, it will be in galleys, manuscript no more. It’s been twelve years since I workshopped the experiment in voice that became the first chapter of the novel. I was 28 years old then, and I smoked [...]
