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Music the World Makes is now available for pre-order from Frayed Edge Press! The Publication date is November 10, 2026. There will be a book launch on November 10 at City Lore,  56 East 1st Avenue. Come one, come all

The Price of Their Toys is available from bookstores (The Bookmark Shoppe!), Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon. 

I will be holding a number of reading in the coming weeks – I hope you can stop by one of these and say hello.

 Friday, March 6:  Pickles Pub 520 Washington Blvd, Baltimore, MD; 9-11 pm

Thursday, March 12:  The BookMark Shoppe, 8415 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY;  6:30 pm

Thursday, April 9:  University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI:  6:00 pm

Wednesday, July 15: Oceanside Public Library, 30 Davison Ave, Oceanside, NY: 7:00 pm

Read Reviews and discussions of Price here:

The Washington Independent Review of Books: https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-price-of-their-toys-stories

The Southern Literary Review:

https://southernlitreview.com/authors/betty-joyce-nash-interviews-john-p-loonam-author-of-the-price-of-their-toys-stories-of-men-and-boys.htm

Reedsy:

https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/the-price-of-their-toys-john-p-loonam#review

Meredith Sue Willis’s Books for Readers

https://www.meredithsuewillis.com/bfrarchive244-246.html#loonam

Previously Published:

• “The Assistant,”The Summerset Review. Fall, 2022.

• “The Unexamined Life,”descant, November, 2020.

• “A Wake,”Onward, wordRunner ebooks, Spring 2020.  

• “Action Adventure,”Lock and Load Armed Fiction. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2017. 

• “Lily and the Body,” The Madison Review, Spring 2016

• “Poets and Their Circles,”Across the Margin, April, 2015.

• “Running,”Modern Shorts, A Fiction Attic Short Story Anthology. Fiction Attic Press.  Burlingame, California. 2014.

• “Trump,”Santa Fe Writer’s Project, Fall 2013.

• “Returns,” Slow Trains Literary Journal, Spring 2011. 

• “Say a Few Words", Storyglossia, September 2009’ A “Best of Web” and Pushcart Prize nominee.

• “Alone With the Dalai Lama,” Third Order, Winter 2008.

• “Reservoir,”The Taj Mahal Review, June 2007.

• “Even Richard Nixon,” Slow Trains Literary Journal, Fall 2006.  A “Million Writers Award” Notable Story, Spring 2007.

• “Guy and Doll,” Antithesis Common Literary Journal, Fall 2006.

• “Waking,” Fifth Street Review, Spring 2003.

• “Knowing,” Here’s Me Bus, Winter 1995.

• “Hubcap Heaven,” The Black River Review, Summer 1995.

• “Sailor Take Warning,” fiction, Rubicon, September 1987.