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Dec. 08, 2022
Rick Pryll
Biography
Rick Pryll is an award-winning author and poet living in Charlotte since 2002. His book, The Chimera of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2017) was selected the winner of the 2018 New York Festival of Books in the Romance category.
Rick is a member of CharlotteLit and the Charlotte Writer’s Club. Most recently, Rick hosted a book marketing session called “Beyond the Book: engaging readers, creating super fans” as a part of the Author Talks series at CharlotteLit.
In support of his latest book, Rick held launch events in Charlotte and in Prague, the Czech Republic. Since November 2017, he has been invited to participate in author events in Kentucky, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and is actively seeking additional opportunities to speak and promote his book internationally and domestically.
First published to the web in 1994, his hyperfiction short story “LIES” has garnered praise from the Wall Street Journal, SHIFT magazine, and several other publications in print and online. It is cited in more than seven books, and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese.
From 1996 to 2002 Rick lived in Prague. While there he published two books including Displaced (Foolishness Press, 1998) and Wallow (Foolishness Press, 1999). His stories and poems have been featured on the pages of THINK and OPTIMISM.
Rick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering by submitting a novella as his thesis. In 1991, he won MIT's Robert A. Boit Prize for Best Short Story.
Rick was born in Dunkirk, New York on the shores of Lake Erie. From the age of three, he grew up in Batavia, New York and graduated from Pembroke Central High School.
He lives with his wife, 2018 ArtPop Charlotte artist, Holly Spruck HMCAS, his two kids, Edie (13 years old) and Jack (11 years old), two cats and a puppy.
Rick is a member of CharlotteLit and the Charlotte Writer’s Club. Most recently, Rick hosted a book marketing session called “Beyond the Book: engaging readers, creating super fans” as a part of the Author Talks series at CharlotteLit.
In support of his latest book, Rick held launch events in Charlotte and in Prague, the Czech Republic. Since November 2017, he has been invited to participate in author events in Kentucky, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and is actively seeking additional opportunities to speak and promote his book internationally and domestically.
First published to the web in 1994, his hyperfiction short story “LIES” has garnered praise from the Wall Street Journal, SHIFT magazine, and several other publications in print and online. It is cited in more than seven books, and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese.
From 1996 to 2002 Rick lived in Prague. While there he published two books including Displaced (Foolishness Press, 1998) and Wallow (Foolishness Press, 1999). His stories and poems have been featured on the pages of THINK and OPTIMISM.
Rick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering by submitting a novella as his thesis. In 1991, he won MIT's Robert A. Boit Prize for Best Short Story.
Rick was born in Dunkirk, New York on the shores of Lake Erie. From the age of three, he grew up in Batavia, New York and graduated from Pembroke Central High School.
He lives with his wife, 2018 ArtPop Charlotte artist, Holly Spruck HMCAS, his two kids, Edie (13 years old) and Jack (11 years old), two cats and a puppy.
Books
Wallow
by Rick Pryll
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 34,770.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: December 5, 1999
by
Foolishness Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
This connected collection of short stories, poems, unsent letters, and journal excerpts come together to describe a twenty-something man's coming to terms with his life after divorce. Set both in New York City and Prague, the book is divided into seven sections, taking the reader through a fractured landscape of loss, self-pity, self-discovery, and ultimately hope.
Not-Prom: a vignette
by Rick Pryll
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 2,820.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: November 26, 2018
by
Foolishness Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological, Fiction » Romance » New adult, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome
NOT-PROM is a vignette included in the upcoming novel called "The Chimera of Prague". The big book is about a young man living as an expatriate in Prague, and trying to figure his life out. In the vignettes, he is digging into his past life in Western New York to try and understand his first love, a relationship with a woman named Dani. In NOT-PROM, Joseph and Dani decide to skip her prom to go...
The Chimera of Prague
by Rick Pryll
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 96,970.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: November 17, 2017
by
Foolishness Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
WINNER, 2018 New York Book Festival for Romance. "Pryll captures all the international sexual tension and possibility that was 1990s Prague." - Bonnie Ditlevsen, editor, Penduline Press Divorced expat, Joseph, takes a gap year in the late nineties, womanizing Prague with a vengeance. He obsesses over one elusive girl, and tires of the parade of women he assimilates into his sad life, His...
Christmas in Prague
by Rick Pryll
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 14,340.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: November 24, 2018
by
Foolishness Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological, Fiction » Romance » Holiday
"Rick Pryll weaves romance and the search for life's answers with a thoughtful touch." --Tracy Sumner, National Reader's Choice Award winner Christmas in Prague is a novella from award-winning author, Rick Pryll. Taken from the upcoming novel, Part II of THE CHIMERA OF PRAGUE, set to release in April 2019, this is the story of Joseph, a divorced American twenty-something living as an expat in...
Cross Country
by Rick Pryll
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 3,940.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: January 28, 2019
by
Foolishness Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological, Fiction » Romance » New adult, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome
Cross Country is a vignette from the story-within-in-a-story in the novel "The Chimera of Prague". In this story, Dani comes to Joseph's final race at the McQuaid invitational, one of his biggest races of the year. His father is the coach, and Joseph is the captain of the team, yet it is going to be Daniu who steals the show. The story is set in Rochester, New York. The story features a turning...