Announcement Local Exposure 29 Jun 201930 Jun 2019 In this silly new world, "content creators" is an inelegant term that reeks of the business world and its recategorizing of human life as an expendable, much in the way…
Announcement “Fade to Gray” 25 Jun 201925 Jun 2019 Another story of mine was just published in India's Bangalore Review, and is available for free online: "Fade to Gray" Pretty hard-hitting, I realize, as I read it again. In…
Announcement I’ve Got Mine…Now Get Yours! 19 Jun 201919 Jun 2019 I received my copy of American Writers Review at last, in yesterday's mail, and it is a handsome anthology: well-bound, with a good cover, and easy to read inside (despite…
book review Mini Review: “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison 13 Jun 201915 Jun 2019 Lawn Boy, by Jonathan Evison If you threw J. D. Salinger, Oscar Wilde, Jack London, and maybe Gerald Durrell into a blender, added a spoonful of Warhol and a dollop…
Announcement The Big Cover-Up 8 Jun 2019 It's a big cover-up: same great text, but suspiciously better presentation! I took the photos, but it's graphic artist Rensi Ke who turned them into real book covers. You can…
Announcement American Writers Review 31 May 201931 May 2019 Here we go again...the 2019 issue of American Writers Review is available now on Amazon, $15.00 for a nice fat print book full of short stories. Including one of mine, "Beach…
Announcement Printed in Blood…. 29 May 201918 Jul 2019 The print edition of Switchblade #9, which includes my story, "Prisoners," is now available at Amazon. And given the contents of this deeply noir compilation, it should be printed in…
Announcement Waiting Game 27 May 201927 May 2019 The waiting game is always a bit difficult: the one, I mean, which you play after the story has been accepted but before it appears in print or online. After…
Author post “Prisoners” Reviewed 19 May 2019 As you may know, I have published three stories in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, since early last year. Here's a favorable review of the current issue, Switchblade #9, with this…
Author post Managing Distraction 19 May 2019 I recently saw an ad for the Freewrite, a "distraction-free" portable word processor--that is, one with no Internet capability. I immediately recognized it as something inspired by the old Alphasmart…
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