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WORK TITLE: Listener in the Snow
WORK NOTES:
PSEUDONYM(S): Jollymore, Tim Walter
BIRTHDATE:
WEBSITE: http://www.tim.jollymore.net/
CITY: Oakland
STATE: CA
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-jollymore-56071641
RESEARCHER NOTES:
LC control no.: no2015108868
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/no2015108868
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PERSONAL
Children: three.
EDUCATION:University of Minnesota Duluth, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English.
ADDRESS
CAREER
Novelist, teacher, Web log writer, tree planter, historian, traveling salesman, and corporate manager.
AWARDS:New Generation Indie Award in fiction and Independent Publisher Awards; Silver Medalist for Best Fiction, Midwest Region, both for Listener in the Snow.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
Novelist and short story writer Tim Jollymore grew up in northern Minnesota near forests, swamps, and Indian reservations, places that have influenced his writing. He has published the novels Listener in the Snow, Observation Hill: A Novel of Class and Murder, and The Advent of Elizabeth, all of which explore struggles of identity in working-class American society using natural settings and domestic life. Jollymore was a travel Web log writer, tree planter, historian, traveling salesman, and corporate manager. He holds a master’s degree in literature from the University of Minnesota Duluth and has also studied architecture and education. Now he lives in and writes from California, where he also teaches writing.
Jollymore’s 2014 novel Listener in the Snow blends Native American and Finnish folklore in a mystical tale of identity, loss, guilt, and windigo magic. Blue collar Tatty Langille is already in a difficult marriage when his Ojibwa wife leaves their Florida home for Minnesota to midwife her pregnant cousin, who is having twins. Determined to save his marriage, Langille drives to Minnesota to reconcile but is caught in a blizzard. Along the way Langille, who has a Mi’kmaq grandmother and Finnish mother, begins to see ghostly images in the snow and has an accident that leaves him at a lodge where Minnesota natives tell stories. As he tells his own stories, he begins to suspect that his wife is keeping secrets from him. A writer in Publishers Weekly commented that “this is a memorable story of love rekindled and truths revealed.”
In 2015 Jollymore published Observation Hill, a “fast-paced thriller that explores class differences,” according to Mary Ann Grossmann in TwinCities.com. The story draws on class struggle between the aristocratic East and working-class West sides of Duluth, Minnesota, in the 1960s. The city has seen a series of mysterious deaths in a town where wealthy industrialists from the East side run dangerous steelworks on the West side, where workers are often mutilated or even die. Detective Paul Tuomi works amidst a carefree drug culture while he is pursuing Ingstrom, the spoiled teenage son of a wealthy East side mill owner. Tuomi’s loyalties in the city are conflicting, as he has romantic interests in the East while the mother of his son is in the West. Meanwhile, his private detective father was brought down by a bootlegging murder incident forty years previously, a crime that broke his ties with the patrician elite of the East. Kitty Fassett commented online at Berkeley Mystery Fiction: “‘Observation Hill’ is as tightly constructed as a Rubik’s cube, every scene leading into the next with unrelenting suspense.”
Jollymore’s 2016 murder mystery and satirical novel The Advent of Elizabeth opens as Santa Reina High School in California is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary. Old wounds are reopened as members of the Class of ’67 are receiving disturbing letters. Twenty-five years ago a girl was murdered; Doug Brandling confessed to the crime and is doing hard time. But questions are now surfacing over his guilt. He may have been covering for someone, and the new suspect list is growing. There is his accuser, Elizabeth; her lover Finn; Snub Randall, the handsy teacher who sees his students as conquests; Monsignor Phelan, who can’t keep his alterboys straight; and sissified teacher Farley Pike. Everyone wonders if the real murderer will strike again. The book plays with humor, old school friends, odd characters, and guilt.
In 2016 Jollymore published Lake Stories and Other Tales, a collection of short stories celebrating common folk, natural settings, isolation, pride, heroism, and a search for place. With humor and thoughtfulness, Jollymore combines the essence of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden to present stories that delve into young love, aging seniors, moonlight thinkers, aurora borealis observers, and lost tourists.
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, April 18, 2016, review of Listener in the Snow, p. 91.
ONLINE
Berkeley Mystery Fiction, https://berkeleymysteryfiction.com/ (June 25, 2015), Kitty Fassett, review of Observation Hill.
Reader’s Favorite, https://readersfavorite.com/ (September 1, 2015), Rabia Tanveer, review of Observation Hill.
Tim Jollymore Home Page, http://www.tim.jollymore.net (February 27, 2017), author profile.
Twin Cities, http://www.twincities.com/ (August 22, 2015), Mary Ann Grossman, review of Observation Hill.
THE AUTHOR: Tim Jollymore grew up next to the swamps, forests, and Indian reservations of northern Minnesota, the setting of his first novel. He spent his working life as a tree planter, pulp peeler, local historian, traveling salesman, and corporate manager. After migrating to California, he pursued residential design, contracting, and the teaching of English. Jollymore earned his master’s degree in literature at the University of Minnesota. He has also studied architecture and education.
Since leaving teaching in 2011, he has devoted his time to fiction and drama, writing a five-act play, completing two novels and numerous short stories. He posts to his review blog frequently and has written a travel blog. His first novel, Listener in the Snow, will appear in June of 2014.
During summer, he camps across the western states to visit extended family in northern Minnesota. Otherwise, he writes in Oakland, California and shares free time with his sleepyhead, artist companion, Carol. He lives in northern California nearby his three grown children, one of whom writes. When he can, Jollymore yells and screams along with his Viking grandson.
Listener in the Snow
Publishers Weekly.
263.16 (Apr. 18, 2016): p91.
COPYRIGHT 2016 PWxyz, LLC
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Full Text:
Listener in the Snow
Tim Jollymore. Finns Way Books, $ 17.95 trade paper (318p) ISBN 978-0-9914763-0-5
Jollymore (Observation Hill) weaves Native American and Finnish folklore into an emotional journey of discovered identities, loss, guilt,
forgiveness, and enduring friendship. Tatty Langille drives from Florida to Minnesota to reconcile with his estranged Ojibwe wife, Mary, who is
midwifing her cousin Windsong's birth of twins. On his long drive, Tatty reminisces on his abusive father's Mi'kmaq heritage, his mother's Nova
Scotian roots, his desire not to have children, and his wife's mysterious tantrums. In Minnesota, Tatty encounters a blizzard, as well as a vision of
the Algonquin windigo spirit being chased by a man and two women. Rescued from his overturned Jeep by Samaritan Scummy and brought to a
tavern for recuperation, Tatty learns he is inexorably linked to his wife's family through the legend of the windigo. The plot takes a strange thirdact
turn, but this flaw is balanced by the book's strengths: the stories of Native American folklore, family dynamics that lead to hard choices, the
consequences of kept secrets, and the value of Native customs. This is a memorable story of love rekindled and truths revealed. (BookLife)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"Listener in the Snow." Publishers Weekly, 18 Apr. 2016, p. 91. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA450361267&it=r&asid=cfca16aa9567a7d6117e0f58299328d9. Accessed 1 Feb.
2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A450361267
Fiction Review: Observation Hill by Tim Jollymore (2015)
June 25, 2015 kitty fassett
OBSERVATION HILL: A novel of class and murder, Tim Jollymore, Finnsway Books, 5/30/2015,
Police detective Paul Tuomi is caught between East and West in Duluth, Minnesota, where drugs, arson, and greed figure in a series of mysterious deaths. Here the drug culture of the 1960s stands in relief against the backdrop of a glowering steel industry where workers from the West side risk mutilation and death at a mill controlled by wealthy industrialists on the East side – men “whose souls had been scorched barren not at the two-thousand-degree open hearth . . . but by the mammonish glow of money and mounds of wealth.”*
Despite marital ties with East side aristocracy, Paul’s heart is in the West, with the mother of his child, and with his private detective father, PS Tuomi, whose reputation is tarnished by link with an earlier murder in a bootlegging enterprise. Although his West-side connections put his job in the East in jeopardy, Paul follows his instincts, as he pursues the trail of the spoiled teenaged son of a privileged East side family.
As the second novel of award-winning author Tim Jollymore, “Observation Hill” is as tightly constructed as a rubik’s cube, every scene leading into the next with unrelenting suspense. On a level with best-selling authors such as Robert Crais and Joseph Wambaugh, “Observation Hill” is a gripping thriller, a must-read for any lover of mystery fiction.
Kitty Fassett
Duluth native Tim Jollymore’s new thriller has exquisite sense of place
Duluth native Tim Jollymore’s new thriller has exquisite sense of place
By MARY ANN GROSSMANN | mgrossmann@pioneerpress.com |
PUBLISHED: August 22, 2015 at 9:26 am | UPDATED: October 28, 2015 at 5:27 am
Duluth native Tim Jollymore, author of “Listener in the Snow,” signs copies of “Observation Hill,” his new, fast-paced thriller that explores class differences in the city by the lake.
With an exquisite sense of place (beginning writers should read this book to understand that term), Jollymore tells the story of Detective Paul Tuomi, caught between the West Side where in the 1960s workers risked death in steel mills controlled by wealthy industrialists on the East Side. Tuomi’s heart is in the West, where his connections put his job in the East in jeopardy as he follows his instincts and pursues the trail of a spoiled teen son of a privileged East Side family.
The murder at the center of the story was influenced by the Elizabeth Congdon murder at Glensheen.
Jollymore holds English degrees from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and has taught writing in California, where he relocated in midlife. 11:30 a.m. Friday, Lake Country Booksellers, 4766 Washington Square, White Bear Lake; 2 p.m. Saturday, Barnes & Noble, Har Mar Mall, 2100 N. Snelling Ave., Roseville; 1-3 p.m. Aug. 30, Chapter2Books, 226 Locust St., Hudson, Wis.; 7 p.m. Sept. 1, SubText Books, 6 W. Fifth St., St. Paul.
Observation Hill
A Novel of Class and Murder
by Tim Jollymore
Fiction - Mystery - General
440 Pages
Reviewed on 09/01/2015
Book Review
Reviewed by Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite
In Observation Hill by Tim Jollymore, Paul Tuomi is a police detective and has his hands full with two cases that demand his attention. He was investigating the murder of a family member when he was given the case that could be the one to take his career to new heights. In the midst of all that, his personal life is demanding his attention. With all of these things going down together, Paul has a lot of pressure to bring justice to the person who killed his family member and arrest the one who killed a well known heiress. His superiors are not making things easier as well. But soon Paul realizes that all things are pointing to one person who has been a thorn in his side for years. His nemesis: Ingstrom. If Paul catches him, all his worries will be resolved. But the illusive Ingstrom is not that easy to catch. Can Paul race against time, withstand the pressure and keep his sanity intact?
Tim Jollymore wrote such an intricate novel that I am in awe. Half the time I was reading the novel, I was thinking, “Amazing.” Tim Jollymore has a knack for writing out-of-this-world novels. The way he connected the dots in the end was nothing short of phenomenal. The way he created the characters, the word play, dialogues, and the situations was super cool. A huge thumbs up and a big round of applause!