Corey_Whaley

Join Date: 4/26/2009

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  • Corey_Whaley

  • Shreveport, LA

  • Corey Whaley

  • B. A. in English Literature from Louisiana Tech University
    M. A. T. in Secondary English Education from Louisiana Tech University


  • English

In short

  • I am a Sixth Grade English teacher and novelist.  My debut novel, Good God Bird, was recently purchased by Simon & Schuster's Atheneum Books.  I found my agent using WEBook's AgentInbox.

  • I was a semi-finalist in the 2008 Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Awards, where I received a rave review by Publishers Weekly.

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • Fiction: Humor/Satire, Literary, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Short Story

    Non-Fiction: Humor

    Poetry: General

  • The Catcher in the Rye, King Dork, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Slaughterhouse Five.
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Road, Youth in Revolt.
  • A dimly-lit room with a fire; by the pool; on my balcony.
  • "This May Be the End of the World"-Short Story
    "Wrongthink and Other Poems"

  • Fiction: Literary, Short Story

    Poetry: General

  • Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., J.D. Salinger, Jonathan Safran Foer, Frank Portman, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, Mary Shelley, Sherman Alexie, Dave Eggers.

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