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Journey through the Shadowlands: a Middle-Grade Fantasy Novel

Journey through the Shadowlands, published by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, is a middle-grade fantasy novel with a social conscience, following…

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Family Ties: a Novel

Finders, Losers A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and…

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The Dust Will Answer: a Novel

No Lofts, No Lattes. No Law. 1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and…

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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…

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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…

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Cover Quote (A Teaser)

16 Aug 202116 Aug 2021

With my novel, My Turn to Die, tentatively scheduled for release in January by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, I decided to start looking for a good cover quote to help…

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“The Return”

13 Jul 2021

Flash Fiction Magazine has just published my story, "The Return," available to all at no cost online. It's a little vignette of life in a homeless camp behind a mall,…

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“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…

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“The Mirror”

29 Jun 2021

"The Mirror" is my second story published in Hearth and Coffin, a fairly new and well-produced literary journal, this being their second issue. The theme this time was "Pride," and…

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“Profile”

27 Jun 2021

My short story, "Profile," is now available on 34th Parallel magazine's issue 87, a vivid, graphics-heavy rag that presents a limited selection of stories and poems amid a dazzle of…

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“Best of 2020”

21 Jun 2021

A quick note: My story, "The Mechanical Dancer," has been included in Potato Soup Journal's "Best of 2020" anthology, a collection of 75 stories in total. Available now in print…

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Cover Reveal: “Journey through the Shadowlands”

18 Jun 2021

The book itself won't be available till the end of the month, but you can see its cover now: here is Basil E. Bacorn Publishing's final version for the cover…

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Children’s Book Due Out This Month

8 Jun 2021

The timeline's a bit tight, but it looks like my children's book will be released at the end of this month. I just sent the publisher, Basil E. Bacorn, final…