Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 10 9 Sep 202110 Sep 2021 I finally finished Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe last night. I read it slowly in bits and pieces, because "M," Proust's narrator, becomes truly insufferable in this volume. Whether Proust meant…
Author post… Estivation…. 29 Aug 2021 The summer doldrums seem to be a cyclical affliction of the publishing world. Maybe it's because so many editors and staffers go on vacation, especially those work work on magazines…
Announcement… “Journey through the Shadowlands” Released! 29 Jun 2021 Publisher Basil E. Bacorn has just released my middle-grade fantasy novel, Journey through the Shadowlands, and it is available for purchase now on the publisher's website and on Amazon, and…
Author post Year of the Novella 19 May 2021 I decided early last year to write several novellas, all in variations of the third-person style, and I have just finished the first draft of the third. I think I…
Announcement… Book Publishing Contract #3 27 Apr 2021 Yesterday I signed my third book contract with Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, after sending them what could be considered a sequel to My Turn to Die, which they accepted a…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 8 27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 If only Proust were not so parsimonious with his comic writing! Just laughed through a short section in the salon scene of "Le coté de Guermantes," book II, with Mme.…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part Seven 12 Sep 2020 Hmm...the next book I called in to my library has not arrived yet, leaving me with only Proust for a day or two. While I have to admit that he…
Announcement… “Photographers” a Finalist 4 Sep 2020 My short story, "Photographers," is now a finalist in Short Édition's "America: Color It In" competition, and it could use a few reader votes. So how about you head on…
Announcement… Reading & Interview, via Rock and a Hard Place magazine 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Rock and a Hard Place magazine has just released a podcast wherein I read "The Parking Lot," featured in issue three, and am then subjected to a grilling by the…
Author post… Musings on Proust, part Six 21 Jun 2020 I am done (shall I say, "at long last"?) with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Tome II of La recherche. When last we left our hero, he was…
