June 2, 2020

George Hovis’ “The Skin Artist” Is an Edgy Story Set in the Shadows of the Shiny Banking City of Charlotte, NC

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In this episode 110, we visit with George Hovis, author of “The Skin Artist,” an edgy story set in the shadows of the shiny banking city we know as Charlotte, North Carolina, and a finalist in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Award in Fiction.

Fred Chappel, author and winner of the North Carolina Award for Literature, says that “Hovis displays a world we know and try to turn our gaze from. But the story is too powerful…and we readers watch, hypnotized, as the descent gathers friends, lovers and family into its vortex. Can such dark passages lead to hope?”

George starts the show with a reading early in the book where the main character ends up at a historic Charlotte bar after learning that his wife is having an affair and he sees Lucy for the first time, a woman covered in tattoos, with jet black hair down to her back.

Connect with the author

Website

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Author/George-Hovis-Author-2131974867094461/

About the book on Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44436647-the-skin-artist

Publisher:

https://sfkpress.com/the-skin-artist-ma0719/

Watch the author talk about the Charlotte settings for the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xFnoa_pQcM&list=PLP1-IIBlosoCjFWmEZjN52k7SMXdaTp7K&index=3&t=0s

Find the Skin Artist Youtube playlist with the author here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1-IIBlosoCjFWmEZjN52k7SMXdaTp7K

George Hovis’ tattoo

About the Author

George Hovis is a native of Gaston County, North Carolina. Before becoming a writer and teacher, he worked as a process chemist at several ink factories in Charlotte. His debut novel, The Skin Artist, from SFK Press, and his stories and essays have appeared widely, most recently in The Carolina Quarterly, The Fourth River, and North Carolina Literary Review. A Pushcart Prize nominee and former President of the Thomas Wolfe Society, he earned a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His monograph Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction was published in 2007 by University of South Carolina Press. He currently lives with his wife and their two children in Upstate New York, where he is a professor of English at SUNY Oneonta.

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Our mid-roll guest this week is Fabi Preslar.

Fabi Preslar is owner and president of SPARK Publications, a national, award-winning, independent publishing firm specializing in the design of niche magazines, special publications, and independently published books for print, digital, and interactive media.

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