Praise for DAYTIME MOON

"Daytime Moon is a deeply engrossing and extraordinarily powerful novel about the unspoken histories that shape our lives. Set against the stark beauty of the California desert and the Salton Sea, Schlottman's story captures the gripping and complex emotional journey of a daughter in search of answers to both her mother's past and her own future. Written with remarkable precision and insight, every page of Daytime Moon is a testament to Schlottman's enormous gifts as a storyteller and writer." --Andrew Porter, author of The Imagined Life

"Tender, insightful, and intricately crafted, Daytime Moon explores the ways in which our decisions radiate forward with unforeseeable consequence. Masterfully weaving the everyday with the eternal, Schlottman invites us on an adventure of discovery and belonging. I returned to the beginning the moment I finished to marvel at how she pulled it off." --Laura Venita Green, author of Sister Creatures

"With exquisite writing, openhearted characters, and a compelling quest to unearth family secrets, Daytime Moon absolutely shines. From New York to coastal California, a vivid and thoughtful story unfolds. Pieces of a mother's hidden life come together, while Mother Earth shows signs of coming apart. The harsh realities of stranded whales and Amazonian fires meet the mystical powers of tarot cards and dreamcatchers, as Schlottman creates a wonderfully complex texture giving readers an immersive and unforgettable read." --Candi Sary, author of Magdalena

"Daytime Moon is magnificent, a literary meditation about family, memory, and belonging with deep emotional stakes. Like trying to capture meaning in one's life with a net, Schlottman beautifully illustrates the longing we all have for the places we came from and the places we hope to arrive to, both transitory like sand castles. Gorgeously written and intensely felt, Schlottman adds a worthy milestone on her journey to excellence." --Scott Semegran, award-winning writer of Starman After Midnight and The Codger and the Sparrow

"The writing is as beautiful as the characters' stories. The tears you cry will be the kind that remind you of what it means to be human." --Kim Hooper, author of Woman on the Verge

"Daytime Moon shines with character depth and a striking sense of place. It delicately weaves several disparate themes into a cohesive story. There's everything from family dynamics and romantic relationships to grief and trauma, and even a dash of tarot and deep intuition along with meditations on our natural world. Characters you feel like you know and a story arc that holds you through every page." --Megan Strang, Bookseller at Sidetrack Bookshop

PRAISE FOR TELL ME ONE THING:

Shelf Awareness Best Book This Week

2025 Storytrade Literary Fiction Finalist

2024 PenCraft Fiction

Award Winner 2023

American Book Fest Best Literary Fiction

"[A] dynamic, character-driven debut... Schlottman acutely nails the misty, gold-hued atmosphere of the 1980s, and deeply explores themes of class and privilege...This thought-provoking work will put readers on the lookout for what the author does next." ​--Publishers Weekly

"At the start, the novel moves chronologically, with each section headed by the name and descriptive details of one of Quinn's photographs. Eventually, however, the sections loosen, with one dated 1990 and another titled Time Traveling and dated merely Various. This shift cleverly mirrors the way the novel increasingly blurs lines, leaving readers to question their understanding of such concepts as time, art and success." --Shelf Awareness Best Books This Week

"Sensitive, stunning and staggeringly brilliant. I would give it ten stars if I could."​ --Reedsy

"At once the expansive story of two women navigating two disparate, intersecting lives, and a thoughtful meditation on the transtemporal power of photography, Kerri Schlottman's Tell Me One Thing is that rare book: an art world novel with heart."​ --Rachel Lyon, author of Fruit of the Dead

"Kerri Schlottman has delivered us the richest of reading experiences. I read Tell Me One Thing voraciously with equal parts intrigue and admiration, thinking how did she pull this off? Slinking expertly between time and location and point of view--the contrasts here are bright and nuanced, honest and vulnerable, jagged yet tender. This is a novel of great heart, examining the lines we draw as we become who we are. A devastating and rich exploration of trauma, art-making, love, and the unmistakable hauntedness of what we cannot control, yet long to. I want everyone to read this book."​ --Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman ​​

"With a clear, empathic gaze, and with a sharp, startling intelligence, Kerri Schlottman's Tell Me One Thing traces two paths--that of artist, and that of subject--through the cruel disparities of the Reagan eighties and beyond. The result is a book that asks enduring questions about what art is for and what we, all of us, owe one another. Tell Me One Thing is phenomenal."​ --Matthew Specktor, author of Always Crashing in the Same Car ​​

"In Tell Me One Thing, two women's stories begin in an instant--with a shutter click. Divergent yet inextricable, the paths and aspirations of a photographer and her young subject leap and shatter through the passage of four decades and at the mercy of American dearth, all of which Schlottman relays with understated grit and unflinching humanity. As we follow the photographer through seedy 1980s New York to today's commercially sterilized iteration, Schlottman proceeds to vivify a Polaroid snapped in a Pennsylvania trailer park, infusing viscerality and tragedy into a portrait that would have otherwise hung static on a collector's wall. By reframing an object to be admired as a child to be protected, Tell Me One Thing will both compel and confront readers with questions that only the finest of novels can posit." --Jakob Guanzon, author of Abundance, longlisted for the National Book Award ​