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The title for the book release of "A Gag Reflex" will be.....




















due out September of '08 w/Seal Press.

You can Pre-order your copy at Amazon


Come by and say hello here:
CoriCrooks.com
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Name change, name change, been working on that name change...

The time has come to really think about that title.

And I've thunk and thunk.

And I'm changing the name. Quite happily I say!

I'll tell you 'bout it here in a bit.

I think you'll like it a lot.

It's Official!

Negotiations are done!

I signed the contract with a big happy smile!

Wow! Kapow!

I've heard of a possible release date.... Fall 2008... Seal Press!

Wonderful! Wonderful!

Salad days

Sigh. It's a funny feeling not being able to afford a subscription to the site that announces the sale of your first book.

Publisher's Marketplace

Someday I tell ya! Someday!

(...and they even spelled my name wrong! Isn't that kinda cool in a weird sort of way?)

Oh... and did I mention that it takes forever?

A Book! A Book!

Great news!

My book has found a home!

Lots of hard work and lots of believing in the project... and ta-da!!...

Contract negotations with Seal Press!

I couldn't be more pleased!

Here's an big public thank you to my agent Michelle Brower!

And a huge thank you to everyone who's said "Chin-up Cori"....
when I was looking down at my shoes.

A Book! A Book!



happy birthday mom-

During the Summer of 2004-

Finally, after 13 years of searching...

I found the man who was rumored to be my father- and asked him to take a DNA Test.

While...
I Blogged about it.

Sometimes...
learning the truth about your parent's past ain't easy.


A Gag Reflex.



What happens when a hip Gen X Chick finds out that her dead Mommy was a wild child in the 60's? A Gag Reflex. A dark and wacky DNA adventure written by artist, Cori Crooks, that leaves the reader asking... "Who's your Daddy?"
-Smart Grrl Zine

In A Gag Reflex, Cori Crooks retells her mother's fantastical stories, weaving them together with her own memories of her mother's outrageous behavior. The resulting narrative is an account of one complex woman's life, seen through the eyes of her daughter.
-Sacramento News & Review

"This is not mere prose it is prose that dances to a poet's song."
-Michele Agnew

"The complex relationship of a woman's relationship to her own life...her complicated past, her complicated now, and, most especially, the willful, amazing, awful, undeniable force of human nature that was her mother..."
-Michael K. Willis, Bread & Roses

"I can’t read any of Cori’s posts without imagining her story being translated to the silver screen and aired at Sundance to rapturous applause."
-petite anglaise

"I am riveted and I'd like you to be too."
-Jim, Jim in Tonic

"You inspired me to finish my story on my blog. Thank you. You took away my fears. Thanks to you I'm up and writing it again."
-Alli, 63 Days

"I started reading. It was light and bright outside. My children were playing about me and I had no idea what I was in for. I've finished all 80 pages plus links...and its dark foreboding now. The kids nap. It's quite. I am alone. The feeling of tender sadness mixed with hope fills me up."
-Laurenbove, Mindful Things

"Cori is amazing, Cori has nothin’ to worry about, Cori writes like siouxsie screams. So what’s not to like?"
-Patrick O'Neil, Full Blue Moon Dementia