Announcement Coming Soon, Straight to Your Eyeballs! 6 Mar 20197 Mar 2019 Three more recent acceptances should be appearing in the next few weeks. I've been sending stories out regularly, keeping each one at three or four journals, re-sending it as rejections…
Announcement Another Night of Deep Noir Rants…. 28 Feb 2019 Will be you be in Los Angeles on March 13th? Maybe you'd just better be, if you know what's good for you...yes, there's another hard-swearing, hot-tempered night of Live Noir…
Announcement… Another Tiny Victory 14 Feb 201914 Feb 2019 My short-short story, "Noodles for Breakfast," has just appeared on the Short Édition site, and is entered in a contest to qualify for inclusion in their short-story vending machines. Read…
Announcement… A Good Few Months 13 Feb 201913 Feb 2019 As I have occasionally mentioned before, I have had a good year placing stories in magazines--edited journals all, not public corkboards such as Medium, where anyone can post anything without…
Announcement… “Rain Falls Like Rain” 4 Feb 2019 Another short story of mine has just appeared in the UK online journal, Fiction on the Web. It's, again, a thousand-word flash-fiction bit, so take a minute or five to…
book review Book Review: Anna Burns’s “Milkman” 28 Jan 201929 Jan 2019 Milkman, by Anna Burns This book shares some characteristics with Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet, which by chance I read just before picking Milkman up at the library: both explore themes…
Announcement Writing Coach 28 Jan 201928 Jan 2019 I'm setting up as a writing coach and consultant, to combine my love of literature and my skills at teaching...see my new (and not yet definitive) webpage for it here:…
Announcement Meet Me at the Gallery 22 Jan 2019 Reminder: I'll have two new prints in a group show at dnj Gallery in "What's New? (3)," opening Saturday, February 2nd, at 6pm--come to the reception! Wine, cheese, snacks, artists…
Announcement… Yes, Another Story Published! 16 Jan 2019 You heard right--I've managed to get another one published. This ones a flash fiction piece of one thousand words, released into the wild this morning at Front Porch Review. I…
Announcement Check Off Another One…. 11 Jan 2019 I'd like to bring your attention to yet another story published, this time in Canadian journal Scarlet Leaf Review, edited by Roxana Nastase. The story is one of the few…
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