Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:54:49 +0000
Art of Storytelling Coach and Editor Jon Sternfeld was the agent for T. Geronimo Johnson’s novel Hold It ‘Til It Hurts, which was nominated today for the PEN/Faulkner award. Here’s the novel blurb:

When Achilles Conroy and his brother Troy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their white mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achilles—always his brother’s keeper—embarks on a harrowing journey in search of Troy, an experience that will change him forever.

Heartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, Hold It ’Til It Hurts is a modern-day odyssey through war, adventure, disaster, and love, and explores how people who do not define themselves by race make sense of a world that does.

Read more about the PEN/Faulkner nominations at the LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-2013-pen-faulkner-award-finalists-announced-20130306,0,7850562.story

If you’d like to hire Jon as an editor or coach, contact Art of Storytelling at www.artofstorytellingonline.com, info.artofstorytelling@gmail.com. We offer a free initial consultation.