LIVE CAUGHT: “… a survival adventure that rides the rivers of Western North Carolina through memory, trauma, and maybe, impossibly, reconciliation …”
NCWN.org BOOK BUZZ
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
HELLO AUTHOR INTERVIEW “…unexpectedly poetic and, at the same time, filled with the most tension in any book I’ve ever read” – Randal Greene, Hello Author host, on Live Caught.
CHARLOTTE READERS PODCAST “One thing that struck me about your writing is the musicality of it, I think the sounds of it are really rich and interesting to read even on the page…” Sarah Archer, podcast co-host.
THE MASTERS REVIEW on Live Caught: “… a novel welling from the heart. I sense truth in her landscapes, movement of river currents and the hot still air of a North Carolina summer. And behind this truth lies a terrifying darkness.”
LIVE CAUGHT MAKES BEST SELLER LIST, SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION : Ranked #15 in Fiction for April-June 2022
LIT HUB HIGHLIGHTS DANIELS’ DEBUT: The Simple Writing Prompt That Launched R. Cathey Daniels’ Debut Novel
NEW PAGES BLOG SUMMER BOOK RECOMMENDATION for LIVE CAUGHT:
NewPages features great new summer reading titles, like Live Caught, a novel by @CatheyDaniels R. Cathey Daniels published by @BlackLawrence Black Lawrence Press.
STORYSOUTH PUBLISHES DANIELS’ SHORT STORY: BOY IN WAVES
His mom starts her fidgeting up there in shotgun. His dad, driving, is trying his best not to weird out, because weirding out will send his mom into one of her tailspins...
NEW BOOKS NETWORK (PODCAST) GP Gottlieb interviews Daniels, finds hope in LIVE CAUGHT.
CHAPTER 16 REVIEW “Daniels paints three-dimensional characters with layered motives and compromising loyalties. … the reader is allowed entry to [Lenny’s] thoughts, which adds a depth and humor inaccessible through strict dialogue.”
STANFORD UNIVERSITY’S WRITER’S SPOTLIGHT HIGHLIGHTS DANIELS’ WORK
“This month, I am thrilled to spotlight the publication of Cathey Daniels’ first novel, Live Caught…—a book that I for one cannot wait to get my hands on …”
–Malena Watrous, Online Creative Writing Lead Instructor
VIRGINIA LIVING MAGAZINE NAMES LIVE CAUGHT A NOTABLE SOUTHERN NOVEL
FOREWORD Reviews CHIMES IN ON LIVE CAUGHT
“The opening scene sets a breathless pace… Throughout, fishing imagery … enhances the book’s urgent biblical tone. … Father Damien and Romey, ground the story in a steady undercurrent of mercy and love…And the open-ended, hopeful finale brings the cast together well.”
LITQUAKE RECOMMENDS LIVE CAUGHT (scroll)
In which we convince our favorite writers to recommend a must-read book…
Joshua Mohr recommends Live Caught by R. Cathey Daniels.
“Of all the students I’ve had over the years, no one wonderfully abuses language like Daniels.
Live Caught is a torrid page-turner, and yet the real sonic magic happens on the line level.”
LIVE CAUGHT HIGHLIGHTED ON BLOOM
An Excerpt from R. Cathey Daniels’ debut novel, Live Caught:
“He’d been lucky. Lucky to escape …”
LIVE CAUGHT ON BOOK BUZZ
Thanks North Carolina Writers’ Network! “This new, debut novel from Black Lawrence Press is a survival adventure that rides the rivers of Western North Carolina through memory, trauma, and maybe, impossibly, reconciliation …”
DANIELS IN CONVERSATION WITH THE KNOXVILLE WRITERS’ GUILD
“Slashing the Words Your Publisher Just Bought“
March 3, 2022
Zoom & free with registration at KnoxvilleWritersGuild.org
It’s not just revision: It’s a bar fight with the instinct to leave ‘well enough”’alone. Join author Cathey Daniels as she discusses the final revisions process with the publisher for her first novel, Live Caught.
DANIELS AT THE MARVELOUS PARAGRAPH PROJECT
Honored to be a part of Sarah Stone’s discussions on craft, here’s what she says about this piece: “So happy to have this wonderful guest post from R. Cathey Daniels about set pieces in literature (and sports!), with charged moments from Lynda Barry’s Cruddy and her own forthcoming Live Caught. I’ve had the good fortune to read Live Caught already: such a mysterious, moving, and poetic novel, and I love Cathey’s insights into writing craft and process.”
HATS OFF TO R. CATHEY DANIELS! from the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
THE OAK RIDGER, Jan. 28, 2022: OR writer to talk about slashing the words your publisher just bought
MENDOCINO COAST WRITERS’ CONFERENCE NEWSLETTER Jan. 26, 2022
Past participant Cathey Daniels’ book, LIVE CAUGHT, launches with Black Lawrence Press on April 25. It’s available for pre-order at a discount, through March 31. Cathey writes: “I was fortunate to work with Shobha Rao during the Mendo conference, where I workshopped a section from the novel as a short story. I can’t thank you guys enough for the wonderful experience.”
The Early Word on Live Caught
“… both mesmerizing and terrifying, a master class in extracting every drop of drama …”
—Joshua Mohr, author of Model Citizen
“… a pageant of flawed saints and frightening sinners … In the wild, poetic world Daniels has created, Lenny betrays and is betrayed, steals and is stolen from, and harms and protects as he turns to face his life, urgently trying to solve the riddles of his hardscrabble home and past.”
—Sarah Stone, author of Hungry Ghost Theater
“The characters in R. Cathey Daniels’ Live Caught are unforgettable … . You’ll be dreaming this story in a North Carolina accent. I did.”
—Grant Faulkner, author of All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
“… like any Southern novel worthy of the name, there is … madness and fatal misunderstanding … and images cut with a brutal and beautiful scalpel…”
—Thomas M. Atkinson, author of Tiki Man and Strobe Life
“I just loved the writing here—it’s incredibly accomplished and beautifully done with a vivid sense of place and a distinctive voice.“
—Diana Beaumont, Judge, Retreat West Competition
The Author
R. Cathey Daniels is the author of Live Caught, a novel from Black Lawrence Press (April 25, 2022).
R. Cathey grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a master’s degree in education. She taught high school mathematics in East Tennessee prior to becoming an award-winning newspaper reporter for The Oak Ridger, covering education as well as science coming out of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A 2016 graduate of the Stanford University Novel Writing Program, she won first prize in the 2018 Retreat West First Chapter Competition, and was a semi-finalist in the 2020 University of New Orleans Press Novel Contest. Her short story, Boy In Waves, was a semi-finalist in the North Carolina Writers’ Network 2021 Doris Betts Fiction Prize and was published in StorySouth. When she isn’t writing, she can be found at Crossfit, in her garden, hiking, or shooting hoops with her grandkids.