Elizabeth (Zeb) Appel
Writer
​* Winner Best Novel - Connecticut Press Club
* Winner Adult Fiction - National Fed. Press Women​​
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Contemporary Adult Fiction. ​An eccentric family, sex, religion, music. What more could you want? Fans of Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kittridge) and Elizabeth Gilbert (City of Girls) will enjoy this fun portrait of Mandy Flanagan and her escapades. It is 1924 and Mandy is a pretty Irish girl from Boston eloping with a rich man to New York City hoping to become a Broadway star. It didn't happen. These are the stories about her colorful life, her family and her controversial relationships.
"Appel writes in the natural prose of a raconteur, rising occasionally to the level of lyricism. A well-told account of a striver and dreamer who got some of what she wanted." Kirkus Reviews
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Reader Review: ​The best novels take you in and introduce you to people who, pleasantly or otherwise, intrude on your thoughts, who live alongside you, who inform your day-to-day experience. Long after you’ve finished reading it, you’re still in. Life is now a bit different. A bit deeper. Good Luck and a Benevolent God is that kind of novel. Sparingly, economically, and skillfully written, Good Luck acquaints you with Mandy Flanagan, a twentieth-century Becky Sharp, whose misalliances and misadventures are as entertaining as they are elegiac. Good Luck stays with you. Highly recommended. J. Bush
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Available at Amazon in print and ebook and at bookstores.
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Going Up, New and Selected Poems by E. A. Appel
Poetry Chapbook ISBN-9781680730104
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"Her new collection of poems carry in them a stark honesty about relationships that familiar. They engage us without apology; we hear a voice asking to be heard and finally to be understood. And this is where Appel connects. She taps into that universal desire to seek out 'something of meaning' in our dented but fixable lives."
-Amy Nawrocki, author of Four Blue Eggs and Reconnaissance
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"Clear-eyed and bold, her poems reveal the mystery and yes, the tedium of everyday life. She writes about universal truths with grace and wit. I recognized myself, my life, and my family in her poems. I laughed, I cried Hurrah!"
-Pat Vidal, author of The Fair Faint Dream
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