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Rootbound: a Novella

Robert Houseman believed he had left his past behind—util it showed up on his doorstep in the form of Carla…

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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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Recursions, Part 10: “The Dawn Watch,” by Maya Jasanoff

4 Mar 20184 Mar 2018

This is the tenth 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Will You Be in Los Angeles on February 23rd?

5 Feb 20185 Feb 2018

What will you be doing in Los Angeles on February 23rd, 2018? Whatever it is, start feeling guilty if it does not involve attending the Live Noir Reading at BookShow…

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More Advice on Writing, Reprinted

2 Feb 20187 Feb 2018

Advice on writing by...er...me! Reprinted in "A Writer's Path," a literary community, originally printed here as "Clause and Effect": "How to Avoid Being Too Wordy in Your Writing" This is…

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In the Material World

19 Jan 2018

The picture heading this post shows one of my novels, Family Ties, in the new books display at the Echo Park branch library here in Los Angeles. This means new…

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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…

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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…