A MOODY FELLOW FINDS LOVE AND THEN DIES

A quirky literary debut by an exciting new voice.

This is the story of Moody Fellow and his quest for love in “some, not all, of the wrong places and in quite a few of the wrong ways.” The book follows its main character’s search for love from age twelve to early adulthood. Along the way he plays tennis and the piano, thinks about elves, goes to college, protests two wars, gets mixed up in the arts scene in “the City,” and does other things too, like deliver coffee beans for a modest living and cry because his dog has died. The book, Doug Watson’s first novel, is quirky, well-written and funny – shot through with wry humor and a kind of everything-new-is-already-old world-weariness. Doug Watson works as a Copy Editor at Time magazine. He has an MFA from Ohio State University and his stories have appeared in Tin House, One Story, Fifty-Two Stories and in the Anthology of New England Writers. He is the winner of the Tara M. Kroger Award, the Marjory Bartlett Sanger Award for Short Fiction and the Best of Ohio Writers Contest. His first collection of stories, THE ERA OF NOT QUITE, was just published by BOA editions this spring and was celebrated at One Story’s annual Literary Debutant Ball.