About me: I'm a fiction writer, and my first novel, BEING WRITTEN, was released by Harper Perennial in the fall of 2008. Translations have been released in Germany and the Netherlands and are forthcoming in Turkey and Spain.
About BEING WRITTEN -- from Harper Perennial
Daniel Fischer has a secret. He knows he's a character in a book that's being written. He's the only one who knows, the only one who's aware of the author's presence —- but what good does it do Daniel? He's just a minor character. The author seems much more interested in other people's lives. Now Daniel is determined to win a bigger part, and he'll do whatever it takes to get the author's attention and make this story his own.
Suspenseful, subversive, and hilarious, BEING WRITTEN is an audaciously inventive literary turn that gleefully calls into question who we trust, what we believe, and how the stories of our lives are created.
"A white-knuckle thrill ride. You simply can't put this book down once you've picked it up. BEING WRITTEN is a fast and furious leap into the desperate world of a young man who lies his way into the kind of life he had only imagined and does much worse to stay there."
-- Akhil Sharma, Pen Hemingway Award-winning author of AN OBEDIENT FATHER
“[A] promising foray into metafiction...Conescu's light, swift and nicely structured dark comedy puts to the test a character's ability to outwrite his own author. In the end, the author wins.”
-- Publishers Weekly
“BEING WRITTEN is a first novel of great charm, imagination, and wit. Conescu is a dextrous storyteller with a gift for wicked twists and a dazzlingly urbane sense of both drama and humor.”
-- Zachary Lazar, author of SWAY
“[O]ne of the most impressive and memorable debuts this year....At once experimentally playful and existentially poignant, and both ultra literary and ultra readable.”
-- Metro Magazine
(Video stills are not my friend.)
Here's My One-Minute Description of the Novel
Here I Am Reading the Opening
And Here I Am Being Interviewed by a Bowl (3 mins)
Upcoming Events
North Carolina Literary Festival ~ Chapel Hill, NC
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Chapel Hill Public Library ~ Chapel Hill, NC
100 Library Drive
Friday, October 9, 2009, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Book Tour
SPARKcon Festival ~ Raleigh, NC
Moore Square
Saturday, September 20, 2008 at approx. 2:00 p.m.
Quail Ridge Books & Music ~ Raleigh, NC
3522 Wade Avenue
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
SIBA Trade Show 2008 ~ Mobile, AL
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
Sunday, September 28, 2008 at noon
The Regulator Bookshop ~ Durham, NC
720 Ninth Street
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Jefferson Parish Library ~ Metairie, LA
4747 W. Napoleon Avenue
Thursday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Louisiana Book Festival ~ Baton Rouge, LA
Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Octavia Books ~ New Orleans, LA
513 Octavia Street
Monday, October 6, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse ~ Atlanta, GA
991 Piedmont Avenue
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
McNally Jackson ~ New York, NY
(formerly McNally Robinson)
appearing with Diana Spechler, author of WHO BY FIRE
52 Prince Street (between Lafayette & Mulberry)
Monday, October 13, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Brookline Booksmith ~ Brookline, MA
appearing with Diana Spechler, author of WHO BY FIRE
279 Harvard Street
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
McIntyre's Fine Books ~ Pittsboro, NC
appearing with Diana Spechler, author of WHO BY FIRE
Fearrington Village, 220 Market Street
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe ~ Asheville, NC
55 Haywood Street
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
The Gothic Bookshop ~ Durham, NC
Duke University, Bryan Center
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 4:30 p.m.
The Country Bookshop ~ Southern Pines, NC
140 NW Broad Street
Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Barnes & Noble ~ Durham, NC
5400 New Hope Commons
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
SC Book Festival 2009 ~ Columbia, SC
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
February 27 - March 1, 2009
Thanks so much for adding me. It's great to meet other book-lovers and people who understand that fiction is as important to "real life" as, well, real life. (And it's a bonus to meet other writers who like a bit of meta- in their fiction!)
Again - great meeting you in Mobile - don't think I'll make the Columbia show but hope you have a great time and wish you all the best with your book! Still hoping to get you to Western NC for a signing sometime! - Linda P.
Hello, thanks for the friendship (bedankt voor de vriendschap(dutch)), a reader and owner (sadly enough not the library in the picture) of a small 2nd handbook store in Haaksbergen, the Netherlands ....
Hi William! Thanks for the friendship! Good luck with "Being Written." The sequel to my YA series, "Amigas and School Scandals," just debuted. I hope you'll check it out!
Hi William and thanks for the friend's request. I'm happy to have you for a new feiend! Your book sounds great and congratulations of your first novel! Best wishes and all the best to you in your book promotions also!
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