Announcement… Teaser: “My Turn to Die” 28 Feb 201828 Feb 2018 I have finished the third draft of my next novel, titled My Turn to Die, and am grinding through the process of offering to agents while deciding whether I'd really…
Author post Old Man Reading Out Loud, with Accomplices 25 Feb 201825 Feb 2018 Well, not all of you missed it--I mean last Friday's "Noir in NELA" reading at Jen Hitchcock's edgy little shop, called Book Show LA. The room was packed! Sure, it was…
Author post A Book by Its Cover: Advice for the Self-Published 19 Feb 201819 Feb 2018 If your work is to be produced by a trade publisher, the cover will be entirely out of your hands. This can be a good thing, and it can be…
Author post Poetry Run 10 Feb 201810 Feb 2018 So one has to take a break from the prosaic now and then...my "vacation" has been a return to my roots in poetry. Normally this would be a dangerous thing,…
Author post The Perils of Pals 9 Jan 20189 Jan 2018 Here is a tale--sadly, a true one--that I penned about twenty years ago. It's a story not so much of sailing as of sailors, especially weekend sailors and the innocence…
Author post When “Likes” Attract “Likes”–and Nothing Else 1 Jan 20182 Jan 2018 In electronics, the signal-to-noise ratio is the proportion of information carried in a transmission versus the hums, buzzes, and clicks in the carrier medium, be it radio waves or packet…
Author post Solstice 19 Dec 201719 Dec 2017 The latest in a series of poems in my new style, generally rummaging through existential despair and all that stuff.... forget the solstice it’s not a promise winter still waits,…
Author post Clause and Effect 11 Dec 201711 Dec 2017 Do you love subordinate clauses? I know I do. And how about assonance and alliteration, rhythm and rhyme? Let's face it: they can be as tasty as chocolate. But would…
Author post… Recursions, Part 9: “Finding a Form,” by William H. Gass 7 Dec 20177 Dec 2017 This is the ninth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post Transcending Place 2 Dec 201714 Jan 2018 Place is important in stories: while plots are (or should be) based on actions, actions have to take place in a place--the very phrase "take place" tells us that. Be…
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