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IndieReader Interview with me about Too Many Stones, Winner of Literary Fiction 2025
Here’s a link to the interview with IndieReader as Too Many Stones won the 2025 Discovery Awards Contest in the Literary Fiction category: https://indiereader.com/2025/07/irda-winning-author-rodney-nelsestuen-my-first-short-story-was-written-in-seventh-grade-it-was-a-science-fiction-story-of-how-a-hole-in-the-ozone-layer-was-threatening-to-kill-us-all/
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Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar
I just finished reading Kaveh Akbar’s novel Martyr. My copy of book has more than 25 effusive praises from mostly (but not entirely) east or west coast reviewers. So here again I find the number a bit overstated and feel like the inclusion of all this “doth protest too much.” And yet, not all the…
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Awards 2024-2025
Here are some of the awards earned by my four novels. 5 star review from Readers’ Favorite for Why Belize? Neighbors and Too Many Stones. Neighbors also received a 5 star review from IndieReader in 2024 Too Many Stones was given a 5 star rating from IndieReader in 2024, won the Literary Fiction category in…
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
This “slender novel of epic power” (back cover) is, in my estimation, one of the finest examples of literary fiction recently written. There are six astronauts in an orbiting space station for essentially one 24 hour period. The descriptions of earth as they look out the window along with the internal dialogs each of them…
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Award Winner: Too Many Stones
My novel Too Many Stones won IndieReader’s 2025 Discovery Awards in the LITERARY FICTION CATEGORY. While there are a number of fiction awards, I am thrilled to have my book recognized in the Literary Category since that is my goal as I write, i.e., to produce a literary novel. Here’s the link: https://indiereader.com/2025/05/announcing-the-2025-discovery-awards-winners/?mc_cid=72ab31189a&mc_eid=27caecd08 In addition,…
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Exploring Change in ‘Neighbors’ by Rodney Nelsestuen
Reviewed by Maalin Ogaja for Readers’ Favorite May 11, 2025 “Neighbors by Rodney Nelsestuen is a story about the inevitability of change, especially in middle-age, when the physical, emotional, and social landscapes shift. For Peter, Leroy, and Jerry, neighbors in Eagles Pond, the most visible change is the evolving makeup of their community, with more…
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Update to Why Belize? Available June 10
My novel Why Belize? is available for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and online through Apple books. June 10 delivery. Besides the positive review by Kirkus part of which is on the book’s cover, a review by Readers’ Favorite says in part: Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers’ Favorite “In Rodney Nelsestuen’s Why Belize?…
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Some Links
Here are some links to my books, reviews, and to a couple of literary accounts. You can also download from Apple Books to the app on your Apple device: https://bookfinity.com/reader-type-results-share/Bookworm/Time%20Traveler/Lifelong%20Learner/ https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/rodney%20nelsestuen/_/N-8q8 Rodney Nelsestuen on Amazon Too Many Stones, A Novel Neighbors, A Novel Quiet Desperation, A Novella Why Belize? A Novel Kirkus Books – Reviews…
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Bucket List Check Mark: War and Peace
Over the past year I have been ‘chewing’ on Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I finished it on April 4, 2025, a major accomplishment and a long term goal to conquer this more than 500,000 word work. Much to say about it, but for now, I found interesting what Tolstoy himself had to say about the…
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