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Yet Today - Book Tour and Giveaway

3/30/2020

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Yet Today
by Anthony Caplan
Genre: Contemporary Family Thriller 

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School's out for summer, and that's when Gillum Kaosky heads for the exits. Poised somewhere between neediness and nothingness, Kaosky sets out for summer adventures.
Gillum is a Spanish teacher. He's been married for twenty years and has three children with his wife Sibyl. They have raised their family on a farm in central New Hampshire. But this summer, Gillum lands a job that will change everything: wire-tapping the Dominican crime families responsible for bringing heroin and fentanyl into northern New England. Meanwhile, his son, Jonah breaks into the Department of Defense in a hack attempt that lands him in jail. Nothing remains the same, and love does not always conquer all in Yet Today, a thrilling, contemporary family saga from Anthony Caplan.



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Anthony Caplan is an independent writer, teacher and homesteader in northern New England. He has worked at various times as a shrimp fisherman, environmental activist, journalist, taxi-driver, builder, window-washer, and telemarketer, (the last for only a month, but one week he did win a four tape set of the greatest hits of George Jones for selling the most copies of Time-Life’s The Loggers.) Currently, Caplan is working on restoring a 150 year old farmstead where he and his family tend sheep and chickens, grow most of their own vegetables, and have started a small apple orchard from scratch His road novels, BIRDMAN and FRENCH POND ROAD, trace the meanderings of one Billy Kagan, a footloose soul striving after sanity and love in the last years of the last century. His latest fiction effort, LATITUDES – A Story of Coming Home, to be released on Kindle, Nook and Smashwords and paperback in the summer of 2012, is a young boy’s transformative journey overcoming dysfunction, dislocation and distance.


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Are your characters based on real people or do they come entirely from your imagination?

This is an interesting question and one I really have to tackle and be upfront about. I will start by quoting the disclaimer at the beginning of Yet Today.
“This is a work of fiction. Consequently, any resemblance of the characters herein to the living or the dead is unintentional and random.”

But there is a larger picture that does not negate the disclaimer. Instead it opens the story up to the subconscious realms that you need to draw from in order to really reach down and grab something meaningful as a writer.
My family and lived experiences seem to form a large part of the material of the story: the type of characters, the details of their lives, their personalities and conflicts. I think of it as a scaffold, a trellis for the story to take shape and grow on. The final product is fiction, it’s a made up story with an invented narrative that in some almost magical way, in the way of storytelling, tells about a larger truth.
But my process is heavily dependent on what I know, especially when it comes to writing a contemporary story about a unique family living in unique times and how the larger world comes to bear on their relationships and the decisions they make as individuals. At times it might seem like I’m writing what some would call autobiographical fiction, but I call it semi-autobiographical because it is purposely distanced from reality in that my aim is not to mirror the obvious but to reflect on deeper questions.
The story of Yet Today has definite echoes of my real life -- the main character is a high school Spanish teacher, check. He has three children, check. He spends a lot of time reflecting on the direction of his life, his relationship to his wife and children and hoping for a better world, check. But things get a lot crazier in Gillum Kaosky’s life whereas I have a relatively boring, sedate existence.


Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do you feel like you have the reigns of the story? Convince us why you feel the book is a must read.
There were times in the writing process that my characters definitely took over and surprised me. I’m thinking of the children in particular. Gillum Kaosky’s older daughter lives the tension in the family and acts out in strange ways. His son ends up in jail, and the choices he makes when he gets out are unforeseen, because I had no idea that he would make them before it happened in real time as I wrote that part of the book. But that is the beauty of writing, the fact that your characters will take on a life of their own if they have something that brings them to life in your imagination.
The fact is that I write in large part as some kind of fortune telling to help me look into the future. That’s an obvious byproduct of writing my science fiction trilogy The Jonah. But even in a contemporary story such as Yet Today, I wanted to see what would become of the family, of the marriage between Gillum and Sibyl, of the children, just the way anybody in real life would like to know how things will look in one year’s or ten year’s time for their loved ones. Having said that, I’m not at all sure what will happen to me and my family, but one thing is for sure, the writing of Yet Today was a lot of fun, and I can only hope that readers will get out of it as much pleasure as I got in writing it.


What’s the most difficult thing about writing characters from the opposite sex?

This brings up the question of identity in literature which has taken on such a recent controversial air recently. Can someone from a particular background even claim to be able to tell a story from a point of view with which he, or she, or they have seemingly nothing in common? That’s the question that many seem to have such a hard time dealing with. I would argue that of course it’s possible to tell a story from another’s point of view. That’s the whole point of fiction, to open us up to the world through other eyes. Imagine if only white males could be depicted in stories by white male authors, or black females in stories of black female authors. The literary world and our culture would be greatly impoverished, in my humble opinion.
Is it easy to write from a female perspective if you are not a female? Of course not. Yet Today is about a white guy coming to terms with his privileged perspective as he gets older and his wife and daughters’ stance towards the family change in ways that reflect the larger society. But I would say that an intentional writer can lay claim to another’s perspective. We are all related to each other and consequently are hard-wired to understand and see ourselves and the world through the eyes of the people we care about. The crucial element is to care for each other.



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81 Comments
James Robert
3/30/2020 03:47:55 am

Thanks so much for sharing your book and for the giveaway also. Greatly appreciated!

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 10:09:45 am

Thank you, James! Hope it inspires you and keeps you going. It's great to hear from you.

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Beyond Comps
3/30/2020 05:04:14 am

Nice cover.

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 10:10:18 am

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

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Kelly D
3/30/2020 08:29:46 am

I like the cover, it looks like an exciting book.

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 10:11:28 am

Thanks for joining the tour. Check out the book, I think you'll like it.

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Shirley Ann Speakman
3/30/2020 08:47:56 am

I enjoyed the excerpt and the interview it was great get to know an new author to me.

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 10:12:30 am

Great to hear from you, Shirley. Check out the book. I think you'll like it.

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lynn clayton
3/30/2020 10:28:39 am

oh nice cover looks like a great read

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:17:27 pm

Thanks, Lynn. Glad you appreciate it. Hope you're staying safe these days! Check out the book. I think you'd like it.

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Paula
3/30/2020 10:31:31 am

The cover art seems appropriate for the book. Good job.

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:18:44 pm

Great to hear from you, Paula. Check out the book. I think you'll like it.

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Victoria Alexander
3/30/2020 10:58:22 am

Thanks for sharing :)

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:19:17 pm

My pleasure, Victoria!

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Rita Wray
3/30/2020 11:21:18 am

Sounds like a great read.

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:20:08 pm

I think you would like it. Check it out. thanks for sharing Rita!

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Sherry
3/30/2020 12:00:36 pm

I think the book sounds very good.

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:20:50 pm

Great to hear from you, Sherry. Check out the book. I think you'll like it. Stay safe and keep reading!

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Elaine G
3/30/2020 12:01:23 pm

Thanks for sharing the excerpt. This sounds like a good book

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:21:36 pm

It was my pleasure to share it. Glad you liked it. Check out the book now.

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Dale Wilken
3/30/2020 12:21:23 pm

Sounds like a really great book.

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:23:10 pm

Hi Dale. i know you're going to like it. Check it out. If you like eBooks it's on pre-order now at https://amzn.to/2WyeGeP

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Sara Zielinski
3/30/2020 12:36:42 pm

I think this book has an amazing cover!

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:24:30 pm

Thanks for joining the tour. Check out the book, I think you'll like it. It's on pre-order at https://amzn.to/2WyeGeP

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Ana V
3/30/2020 02:06:35 pm

This sounds really cool! :)

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:27:06 pm

Thanks, Ana! I hope you like it. Check it out on pre-order if you're interested in eBooks. Or wait until the paperback is released May 5. Here is the link: https://amzn.to/2WyeGeP

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Calvin
3/30/2020 03:00:25 pm

Family thriller... haven't come across a genre like this on a while.

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:28:28 pm

Hi Calvin! My books are often hybrids like that. Check it out. I think you'd like it. https://amzn.to/2WyeGeP

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wendy hutton
3/30/2020 04:35:17 pm

thanks this sounds like an exciting book

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Anthony Caplan link
3/30/2020 08:30:01 pm

Hi Wendy. It's pretty exciting! Check it out on pre-order here: https://amzn.to/2WyeGeP Thanks for joining the tour and stay safe these days!

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Victoria Scott
3/30/2020 09:21:31 pm

Great cover! Sounds great!

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Debbie P
3/30/2020 10:45:10 pm

This sounds like an awesome read!

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Diana Hardt
3/30/2020 10:50:11 pm

I liked the excerpt. It sounds like a really interesting book. Thank you for sharing.

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Wendy Jensen
3/31/2020 10:21:55 am

I like the simpleness of the book cover. Makes it look great.

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latisha depoortere
3/31/2020 02:17:18 pm

Thanks so much for sharing sounds great!

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Terri Quick
3/31/2020 08:11:21 pm

Cool looking cover

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Karrie A Millheim
3/31/2020 09:49:57 pm

i love the look of the cover

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Sarah L
4/1/2020 12:44:40 am

Looks like an interesting book.
Thanks for the contest. 

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Judy Thomas
4/1/2020 11:37:18 pm

It sounds like an epic story. Thanks for sharing it.

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Julie Murphy
4/2/2020 01:58:39 am

The cover stands out.

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Molli Taylor
4/2/2020 09:30:13 am

the cover looks awesome

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Cathy French
4/2/2020 10:06:38 am

Very unique cover. I love thrillers and this sounds like a fantastic read.

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shannon zeidan
4/2/2020 01:50:01 pm

this sounds like a wonderful read.

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Elizabeth Sullivan
4/2/2020 06:40:03 pm

I REALLY like the cover. Very cool!

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Peggy Salkill
4/2/2020 10:36:54 pm

Sounds interesting!

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Kayla Harmon
4/3/2020 06:22:09 pm

super interesting

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Amy F
4/3/2020 06:46:39 pm

Interesting cover for a thriller... I like it!

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Nina Lewis
4/3/2020 09:41:37 pm

Looks great! :)

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Mary Cloud
4/3/2020 10:52:03 pm

No questions - the cover is nice.

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Jennifer Redd
4/4/2020 03:17:49 am

I absolutely love the cover, I love the galaxy look, totally something I would pick up to read.

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MARCY MEYER
4/4/2020 01:48:17 pm

The cover looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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Jenn fike
4/4/2020 03:33:44 pm

I love this cover

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Renata
4/5/2020 06:17:31 am

Very nice

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jan
4/5/2020 03:15:07 pm

i like the simplicity of the cover

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Jo Ricker
4/7/2020 11:38:08 am

The cover leads me to believe this will be a really enthralling read.

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Karin
4/9/2020 06:48:41 am

Sounds like an interesting read

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Britton Sanders
4/9/2020 07:03:19 am

Looks like a great book. I like the cover's background

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dario
4/10/2020 08:45:55 am

nice cover

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Veronica Lee link
4/11/2020 07:22:13 am

I am intrigued by the blurb. Must read!

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Barbara Montag
4/11/2020 08:14:02 pm

I like the story line for this book.
And it has an exceptional cover.
Thank you for sharing the review.

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Robin Abrams
4/12/2020 07:24:40 pm

The cover is nice looking

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Sara Floyd
4/13/2020 01:37:47 pm

I love the stars on the cover

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Robyn Bellefleur
4/14/2020 01:44:23 am

It sounds like a good read.

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Barb Harrell
4/14/2020 11:00:39 am

Love the black and green.

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Julie Lundstrom
4/14/2020 11:28:50 am

I like the cover. This sounds like an interesting book.

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AuntySuzany
4/15/2020 12:11:53 am

Like the cover & excerpt, sounds like a good read!

Thanks for sharing!

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Kayla Williams
4/16/2020 02:04:33 am

Love it

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Audrey Stewart
4/16/2020 03:35:40 pm

I love his books. Latitudes - A Story of Coming Home, Birdman and The Victor's Heritage are superb.

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Debra Walker
4/17/2020 01:21:22 am

Book looks good

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barrie
4/17/2020 10:07:58 pm

The cover is unique. The storyline sounds very interesting!

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Leah Cavendish
4/19/2020 05:11:49 am

This sounds really interesting and the cover looks great.

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sheila ressel
4/20/2020 11:09:29 am

Enjoyed the excerpt. It got me hooked!

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bn100
4/20/2020 09:17:17 pm

nice cover

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Catelyn
4/22/2020 01:11:45 am

Wonder how one goes about getting a wiretapping job

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Daniel M
4/23/2020 07:25:03 pm

like the cover

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Jayson Rufo
4/25/2020 01:44:56 pm

Great cover

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Elizabeth COMPANION
4/25/2020 05:13:28 pm

I know its going to be an unpopular opinion, however I'm not a huge fan of the book cover. It's not all that eye catching

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avm
4/27/2020 11:48:00 am

super spiffy

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Dana Rodriguez
4/28/2020 10:33:47 am

Great excerpt! Certainly has my interest!

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Juana Esparza
4/29/2020 07:33:33 pm

I liked both the excerpt, and the book cover.

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Jerry Marquardt
4/30/2020 11:47:48 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Yet Today, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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