CoreyWhaley

General details


  • CoreyWhaley

  • Shreveport, La

  • Corey Whaley



  • English

In short

  • I am a middle school English teacher and novelist.  I completed my first novel in 2007 and have been trying to get it published since.  I am currently working on a series of poetry and a second novel.

  • My debut novel, Good God Bird, was a semi-finalist in the 1st. Annual Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Awards in 2008.  As part of the contest, I received a rave review from Publishers Weekly as well as Amazon.com Top Reviewers.

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • To Kill a Mockingbird
    Catcher in the Rye
    Slaughterhouse Five
    King Dork
    Eee Eee Eee
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    Miles from Nowhere by Nami Munn
    Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
  • A really quiet library or coffee shop.
  • Wrongthink and Other Poems (unpublished poetry collection)
  • Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse Five
  • Dave Eggers
    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    Virginia Woolf
    Jonathan Safran Foer