Interview With Author Louis K. Lowy

Lowy: Penning a mid-50s riff on flying
saucers and commie paranoia

If I’d been an agent pitching Louis K. Lowy’s novel Die Laughing, I might have called it Mad Men meets King of Comedy meets The Outer Limits. As Lowy notes in this interview, he spent a lot of time researching his 1956 setting for his first novel, and the period details—from the “burnt orange cigarette slacks” and black beret of his leading lady to his main character’s quest for TV fame (Sam E, a stand-up comic, is slated for “The Steve Allen Show” when things start to go downhill fast)--are exacting and very, very entertaining. Lowy’s work has appeared in, among others, Coral Living Magazine, New Plains Review, Ethereal Tales Magazine, Pushing Out the Boat, The MacGuffin Magazine, and The Chaffey Review. He’s been awarded a Florida Individual Artists Fellowship, and he lives in Miami Lakes.

Lowy will be participating in a panel sponsored by Writers' Network of South Florida

Author Publicity: Promoting Your Book

Yay You're Published! Now Comes the Hard Part


Wed. Sept 21, at 6:30pm

Broward County Main Library, 6th Floor, 100 S Andrews Ave.,


Fort Lauderdale, FL 


RSVP to: contact@writersnetworksofla.org

On Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m., Lowy will be reading at

Park Road Books

4139 Park Rd., Charlotte, NC

(704) 525-9239

Questions for Louis K. Lowy:

SoFla Writers: News, Classes, and Signings

Workshops and Classes

Hunky Dr. Sean

A FREE workshop for published authors (although I'll bet non-published ones can sneak in), sponsored by The Writers Network of South Florida: Publicity and Social Media Bootcamp, takes place September 21, featuring authors Deborah Sharp, Louis K. Lowy, and author and Survivor survivor Sean Kenniff. This is an amusing assortment of presenters, folks. Highly recommended. Contact the Writers Network for further info, or email me, and I'll forward you the announcement.

YA author Marjetta Geerling has added a second kidlit class, The World of Picture Books, Middle Grade, and Young Adult Fiction starting September 20; it runs for eight consecutive Wednesdays at The Center for Literature and Theater, Miami Dade College. Cost is $170 ($120 for students). Marjetta is the author of Fancy White Trash, selected as one of the American Library Association's Best Books of 2009. Click here to sign up.

Blue Planet Writers Room offers three adult creative writing classes beginning Monday, September 12: How to Pen a Fascinating Memoir on Monday nights; Writing the Short Story on Tuesdays (I'm teaching that one); and Reading as a Writer on Wednesdays (click here for the syllabus; I'm teaching that one, too.) Click here for full details.


NOW FOR THE WINE AND CANAPES: Book Launches