Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Spread the Word: I'm hosting a podcast. THE 2 DEANS PODCAST: Online Dating, Dread and Disaster

 

GOT A STORY?   LET US KNOW

Each week, starting very soon (on Spotify and Apple), we will talk, and laugh about YOUR worst dating disasters, in a weekly 30-minute podcast. Contact US at thetwodeans@gmail.com if you can talk for 15 minutes about your bad date---the funnier or most outrageous the better. 

Dean and I met (before we started calling each other Dean) at a party at the University of Delaware. Then the next week at the Deer Park, I accidently burned her finger with a cigarette. From that point on we laughed at everything. 

Why do we call each other Dean, and why is the podcast called The 2 Deans? Tune in to Episode One and find out! 

Thanks to the Oddball Foundation for producing and partnering. 



Sunday, March 23, 2025

WARNING: Shadows of the Seen deals with relevant, very difficult issues

 

Just this second, I googled shooter opened fire and four mass shootings instantly (try it).  It's why the subject matter in my next novel is relevant and important.  Look for the pre-sale of Shadows of the Seen. 




"Timothy Gager weaves a narrative story that is entertaining and addresses the gun crisis in our country. Politicians, lobbyists, and our mental health system are shown to need a cleansing in Gager's most recent work. "

--Barbara Legere, Author of Keven’s Choice, and Talk to Me, I’m Grieving

 

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people." However, as Timothy Gager's nasty little parable demonstrates, the people who kill people are the very people who should not have access to firearms. In case you've been living under a rock and the national carnage has escaped your notice, it's just too easy for a lunatic to get a gun.

-Gregory Gibson, Author of Gone Boy and other books https://goneboy.com/

 

“Timothy Gager is a writer who has written about gun violence as it needs to be written. He goes past the quick “post” or “reel” that we see after each shooting that we hear about in the news. We get the sound, the smell, the feel of what gun violence leaves behind. Sometimes, it hurts to read his words, but then again, it hurts to be the victim of gun violence, so get over it and read on. We can’t imagine the pain, but Timothy can. “Big men, big guns, big egos to fill, they don’t even need a reason, got a license to kill…”  from my song “Standing Your Ground””.

-Kemp Harris, Songwriter, Actor and Storyteller

 


Thursday, March 20, 2025

I have a poem out today in the beautiful "Ink In Thirds" Magazine

 

ink in thirds is a beautiful publication, a glossy magazine of literature and photography. It is one of the most beautiful out there. The photography is often breathtaking, and appears next to nearly every piece. Some of the pictures below come from the free sample.


To preview the first 30 pages, of 125, you can follow the links below

Get it now! 
  • Print copies are $29.50 and include a free digital download. 
  • Digital-only copies are $3.33. 


    My poem, Lossesis not in the preview section, (since it's on page 107) but it is posted above. The story behind the story was a recent bonding over a shared loss, under a shared circumstance, but the sharing only brought us closer to grief rather than comfort. The second half of the piece is about an earlier loss in my life, and the non-bonding with a therapist during the aftermath. 




 

Monday, March 17, 2025

Briar Haus Writes, Becky Parker interviews me today

 
Briar House Writes is a group is dedicated to being a safe space for those who write stories and poems or who love a good tale! Members can share submission opportunities and your own successes.  Becky Parker runs it and she interviewed me a month or so ago, and it appears out in the world today!

At the 11:00 mark I talk about the new novel Shadows of the Seen and read from it. 

  And, no, I'm not howling at the moon. 

Monday, March 10, 2025

New Poem, "Where to Look for Deceased Parents" appears today in Literary Underground

 The story behind the narrative poem, Where to Look for Deceased Parents is pretty self-explanatory, but the bigger news is that I'm working on a new themed manuscript of poetry tentatively called, These New Orbs.  The theme is 'orbs' , any and all types---shapes, ghosts, ornaments, stars, eyeballs, spirits seen in photographs etc. 

  Also, I'm submitting more in 2025 because, well, just because. I've had five accepted pieces published this year, and four more accepted and not out in the world yet. 

  CLICK TO READ text in The Literary Underground. Grateful to Michele McDannold for looking at it. 





Sunday, March 2, 2025

The Bagels with the Bards Anthology is out, and I'm happy to have three poems in it.

       


        I have three new poems in the Bagels with the Bards, their 17th Edition and annual compilation, which commemorates and honors Krikor der Hohannesian (pictured on the cover). The Bagel Bards is a group of poets that meets every Saturday in Somerville, which now, I rarely go to, but in the past went to often. 

THE STORY BEHIND THE POEMS*

1) Sill-is a four line word-play on love.

2) The Ordinary-Is a salute to an ordinary day, a Sunday morning with the paper, and coffee. Since has been revised and called Extraordinary

3) The Uninvited Dance-Is about going to a wedding without a 'plus one'. The last few weddings of been to with my children and their partners we make fun of the MCs at weddings and their announcement of, "For the first time ever...Mr. and Mrs. _____," which we take to the level of announcing for ourselves, "For the first time ever, Chicken Cardon Blue!" or "For the first time ever, the table placards!"  You get the drift. Below is the complete Table of Contents, and click HERE if you are interested in purchasing.