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 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…
Announcement Machine Reading 15 May 201929 May 2019 My story, "Noodles for Breakfast," is now officially published in the edited section of Short Édition’s website, as well as in their short-story dispensing machines around the English-speaking world! And it's…
Announcement Out Now, Out Soon 19 Apr 201919 Apr 2019 Out now: My short story, "Prisoners," is available now on Kindle in Switchblade magazine issue #9! Buy it now for less than three bucks (or free if you subscribe to…
Announcement Steaming Along 15 Apr 201915 Apr 2019 There is an advantage to habit, or perhaps stubbornness, or perhaps some happy admixture of the two, seasoned with unwarranted optimism: I have finished the second draft of my fourth…
Announcement Into the Finals…. 2 Apr 20192 Apr 2019 Good news for me from Short Édition: "Congratulations! Your story, “Noodles for Breakfast,” has been selected as a finalist in the Button Fiction Spring Contest. We received over 250 submissions,…
Announcement… Old Wine in a New Bottle…. 28 Mar 20198 Jun 2019 Now my second novel, "Family Ties," bears a cover that does it a bit more justice. Once again, I thank graphic artist Rensi Ke for the design work! If you order…
Announcement… Another Night in a Bar…. 20 Mar 2019 What better place for a reading of noir tales than a dive bar in downtown Los Angeles? We met last Wednesday in a tiny storefront nook at the bottom of…
