| Caught Holding the Bag An Ostomy Novel by Peter McGinn |
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| Click here to go to the book's webpage on the publisher's site, where you can read the first dozen pages or so.. and here for Dobro Dreamer April 9, 2008 The first couple of copies have sold online. Fliers are starting to appear at bluegrass festivals, and I am waiting for reviews of Dobro Dreamer to appear in two national bluegrass magazines. Fingers crossed! January 21, 2008 The cover design is complete and approved! See it on the right above the cover for my first masterpiece. (Or click here to see front and back covers) If you like my fiction, and why shouldn't you, go back to the main page of this site and start reading a serial fiction piece I am running in our chapter's newsletter. |
| The Top Five Novels I could find on Google With Ostomates as Main Characters 1. Caught Holding the Bag (2005) 2. Division of Surgery (1994) 3. 4. 5. Okay, the good news is that I am on the ground floor with this. The bad news is that there may not be a second floor. |
| Ten Movies That Weren't About Ostomates, But Could Have Been |
| 1. Hangin' With the Homeboys 2. Breaking Away 3. Stuck On You 4. Ready to Wear 5. Something's Gotta Give 6. Quick Change 7. It Could Happen to You 8. Altered States 9. Blow Out 10. Safe Passage |
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| Why I had Ostomy Surgery |
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| I had surgery as a preventive measure for familial polyposis. I decided to interview the me I would have been if I didn't have surgery: Me (with ostomy): How are you doing, me? How is life without the surgery? Me (without): [silence] Me (with): I'm not try to pressure you, me, I am just curious how things would have worked out. Me (without): [silence] Me (with) Oh my God; you're dead, aren't you, me? [End of Interview] |
| Five Things to Do with My Book When You are Done Reading It 5. Read it again...and again... and again... 4. Leave it on the dashboard of your car to tease the unlucky ones who haven't read it. 3. Donate it to your local library and suggest they buy a couple back-up copies. 2. Send it to the Pulitzer Prize Committee 1. Sneak it into a bookstore and keep checking to see if they sell it (but don't get caught holding Caught Holding the Bag). |
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