He's mostly in the third-person...
Stavrou has written
fiction and non-fiction for
numerous publications in the
U.S. and Europe. In addition to the critically acclaimed novel, Losing Venice,
(Short-listed for the 2019 People's Book Prize), he is also the author of the literary satire,
Hemingway Lives: the Super-Secret, Never-Before-Published Blogs of Ernest Hemingway, the award-winning
travel book Wasted Away, the
original stage play
Picketing with Prometheus as
well as two original
screenplays.
He is a long
time member of the
International Food, Wine
& Travel Writers
Association, the Hemingway Society, and the
Georgetown Entertainment &
Media Alliance.
He was awarded the PEN
America International
Hemingway Writing Award for
his short fiction “Across
the Suburbs”.
You're always the First Person...
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Losing Venice
a novel by Scott Stavrou
Literary Fiction, Rogue Dog Press
Available in paperback or e-book at your favorite online retailer and select bookstores
Short-listed for the 2019 People's Book Prize
"A remarkable novel... only someone who has lived in Venice
could write with such vivid detail, clarity and affection about her charms and annoyances."
JoAnn Loctov, Dream of Venice
Surrounded by beauty, can you learn to live beautifully?
Travel marketing specialist Mark Vandermar leads an itinerant life. Elsewhere is where he calls home,
so it's no surprise when he's called to Venice to craft the Venice Tourism Council's new campaign
to attract suddenly skittish American tourism.
Falling in love with the colorful campos and canals
of Venice comes naturally but how far will he go to chase the love of the right woman?
Mark's new life abroad unfolds against the rich history of Venice, Prague, and the Greek islands,
where he encounters a cast of compelling characters that lead to life-changing consequences.
The geography of his new life is marked with discovery and reinvention, but what he really seeks
is to learn to live beautifully, to find a place and a person to call home.
"Like the finest expatriate novels, Losing Venice
is as richly textured as its fabled locales and dives deeply into the possibilities, perils, and
pleasures of learning how not to be lost."
Hemingway Lives: the Super-Secret, Never-Before-Published Blogs of Ernest Hemingway
by Scott Stavrou
Literary Satire/Humor, Rogue Dog Press
Available in paperback or e-book at your favorite online retailer and select bookstores
PEN Hemingway Award Winner
"Stavrou
perfectly captures Hemingway's voice..."
Barnaby Conrad, best-selling author of Matador and Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters
Love him or hate him, Ernest Hemingway remains one of the world's most widely read—and divisive—authors.
But what would this globe-trotting, self-aggrandizing titan of 20th Century literature have made of the world of today?
Ever the insider, influencer, and self-promoter, Papa's perspective on the contemporary world would no doubt deftly dance
across small screens everywhere, filled with the signature stylings of his own inimitable pithy and powerful prose.
Anyone even slightly familiar with Hemingway's writing and life,
which is just about anyone who knows how to read, will automatically be in on the game in this
hilarious collection of outlandish Papa parodies as Hemingway is gored by his own bull, and good and
true and truly funny sentences and situations are let loose to roam Hemingway-styled hills of prose
as ponderous as white elephants.
For all who love good parody and good Hemingway, even when it's bad,
this volume is sure to entertain, amuse, and possibly even accidentally illuminate.
"In
Losing Venice, Stavrou
takes the reader on an intimate journey...
pulling the reader into the story...
Losing Venice is
clever, witty, and touching,
its characters vivid and relatable, sprinkled with humor and self-irony...
Most of all, Losing Venice is possessed of a strong narrative voice written in
rich, picturesque language."
Panel Magazine (excerpted from full-page review)
"This remarkable, beautifully written novel is
packed with excitement and absurdity, longing and love, but its triumph is its narrative...
therein lies its magic.
Losing Venice is a wonderful book. A damned wonderful book."
Larry Francis, author of
An Anthropology of Anonymity and
Derrida's Toast
"If you’ve
ever wondered why people still write novels,
reading Stavrou’s,
Losing Venice
might answer your question. This funny,
poignant account of failure that turns to
success is beautiful. It captures a moment and
place that, though in the recent past, seems
as distant as Hemingway’s Paris and as
important. A reminder of what the business
of literature, of living is. All lovers of
the art of writing and romance should read
it. A wonderful book."
George Crane,
best-selling author of Bones of the Master and Beyond the
House of the False Lama
"A remarkable novel... only someone
who has lived in Venice could write with such vivid detail, clarity
and affection about her charms and annoyances."
JoAnn Loctov, author Dream of Venice
"I loved this book unabashedly... enjoyed his gleeful word-play,
his sure sense of pacing and rhythm, his sprinklings of literary references. Stavrou delivers
a
paean to creating a life out of love and hope, and to giving oneself entirely to this choice.
The story is beautifully realised. It’s even cathartic."
Sigrid Heath, author Far Cry, a novel
“I was drawn in from the start by this
brilliant, clever, and insightful novel…
Stavrou’s wry musings on life are so original, spot on, and sometimes downright hilarious.”
Libby Carty McNamee, author of Susannah’s Midnight Ride
“...a compelling voice and wit that kept me reading to see how he would repair the damage he had caused.
We are dropped into
lush descriptions of three glorious cities, gaining all three rather than losing any of them."
Kathleen Gonzalez, author Seductive Venice: In Casanova's Footsteps
"...a funny, sweet, and amazingly well-written novel...
An interesting, lively, funny read that will tug at the travel bug in all of its readers."
Sandra Ann Heath, author
of Unrest: A Novel
