Announcement – Life Between Moments: New York Stories

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Welcome back to Tip Jar. Phil here, coming to you with exciting news. 

My second book, LIFE BETWEEN MOMENTS: New York Stories, is publishing this August. I couldn’t be more eager to bring it into the world. 

To keep things short and sweet today, below is a brief preview and description of my book.

I hope it is enticing enough for you to pick up a copy on Amazon when it comes out, or add it to your Goodreads reading list. 

Here we go. 

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I’m publishing my 2nd book at 25 years old. 

When I released my first one at 23, it became an Amazon #1 bestseller.

But looking back on it two years later, I can see the mistakes I made, and I’ve done my best to remedy them this time around.

Life Between Moments: New York Stories is a collection of short fiction, written during my time living in Manhattan over the past year. It comes out this August.

This differs from my first book, Everywhere But Home, because, while that one painted short vignettes of Southeast Asia, this book is entirely of my invention. Life Between Moments is fiction, as opposed to a memoir.

The details may have been accrued from real places and happenings, but the people and events are invention.

And as a reporter, these stories gave me plenty of challenge. On one hand, reporting is simple — you find the facts, and recount them.

Not that it is always easy, but it is straightforward enough.

Fiction, meanwhile, is always a blank slate, a tabula rasa. Just you and your imagination. Without your own inventions, your paper remains dry.

My approach for writing fiction is to observe to the best of my ability the day to day life of interesting people.

I try to ask good questions to my friends and colleagues. I keep my eyes open when I’m out and about.

There’s a story unfolding at all times, in all locations, so long as there’s a writer willing enough to scoop it up as it happens.

I don’t know if my fiction is any good, but I do know that I’m a lot better at it now than I was before I wrote this book.

Below is the book description for Life Between Moments. It will release on August 9, 2022 on Amazon, in print and ebook.

Thanks for reading and cheers, 

— Phil 

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A stylish debut work of fiction from Business Insider senior reporter and Amazon #1 bestselling author Phil Rosen.

This collection of striking, atmospheric stories is populated by people that grapple with the fears and uncertainties that define everyday life. In sketches ranging from the grandest heights of Manhattan society to the anonymous streets of New York, compelling characters discover their demons, confront heartbreak, and learn to stumble through life in the dreamy, oppressive city.

A Manhattan writer discovers a miracle in a slaughterhouse. A young kid finds a jazz club in the heart of the city. The smartest doctor in the world wants to forgo everything to pursue obscurity. A broken marriage realizes its vulnerabilities.

As you turn through pages of spare prose and smart dialogue, Life Between Moments: New York Stories will give you a fresh glimpse into an old city, and remind you why tales of the Big Apple have resonated for centuries.

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