Dale Neal
daleneal.bsky.social
Dale Neal
@daleneal.bsky.social
Novelist, author of KINGS OF COWEETSEE and THE WOMAN WITH THE STONE KNIFE, former journalist, current hiker, wanderer, pilgrim in Asheville, NC.
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My new novel KINGS OF COWEETSEE concerns the reckoning of a mountain community after a ballot box from a stolen election shows up on Birdie Barker Price's front porch. Pick up your copy today.
regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/kings-of-cow...
Got a new short story up on Substack. Check it out.
daleneal.substack.com/p/the-scroll
February 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Breaking News: Inauguration ceremonies to be held indoors due to weather forecast: Hell freezing over.
January 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Meeting the deer on my morning walk. Always a good omen for the day. #asheville
December 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Deeply disillusioning when literary idols like Munro and McCarthy turn out to be badly flawed Art Monsters. Fiction is no license to lie in ways that prey on your loved ones.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...
What Alice Munro Knew
The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:44 PM
I hear Wang Wei speaking to me today:

Birds fly away to the ends of the earth;
The mountains have an autumn look again.
Going up Huazi Ridge, and coming down,
I am moved by feelings of the utmost sorrow.

#booksky
November 20, 2024 at 2:02 PM
My new novel KINGS OF COWEETSEE concerns the reckoning of a mountain community after a ballot box from a stolen election shows up on Birdie Barker Price's front porch. Pick up your copy today.
regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/kings-of-cow...
November 13, 2024 at 3:26 PM
We’re still rising in Appalachia more than a month after Helene tried to drown Asheville and beyond.
November 10, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Saw this guy out the other day, fattening up before starting his winter’s nap. #dailywalk #asheville
December 18, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Yes, we have white squirrels, not albinos, populating our hills over #Asheville. Seen on my morning walk up Sunset Mountain.
December 8, 2023 at 9:34 PM