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… 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…
Announcement Coming Soon, Straight to Your Eyeballs! 6 Mar 20197 Mar 2019 Three more recent acceptances should be appearing in the next few weeks. I've been sending stories out regularly, keeping each one at three or four journals, re-sending it as rejections…
Announcement… Another Tiny Victory 14 Feb 201914 Feb 2019 My short-short story, "Noodles for Breakfast," has just appeared on the Short Édition site, and is entered in a contest to qualify for inclusion in their short-story vending machines. Read…
Announcement… A Good Few Months 13 Feb 201913 Feb 2019 As I have occasionally mentioned before, I have had a good year placing stories in magazines--edited journals all, not public corkboards such as Medium, where anyone can post anything without…
Announcement… “Rain Falls Like Rain” 4 Feb 2019 Another short story of mine has just appeared in the UK online journal, Fiction on the Web. It's, again, a thousand-word flash-fiction bit, so take a minute or five to…
Announcement Writing Coach 28 Jan 201928 Jan 2019 I'm setting up as a writing coach and consultant, to combine my love of literature and my skills at teaching...see my new (and not yet definitive) webpage for it here:…
Announcement… Yes, Another Story Published! 16 Jan 2019 You heard right--I've managed to get another one published. This ones a flash fiction piece of one thousand words, released into the wild this morning at Front Porch Review. I…
Announcement Check Off Another One…. 11 Jan 2019 I'd like to bring your attention to yet another story published, this time in Canadian journal Scarlet Leaf Review, edited by Roxana Nastase. The story is one of the few…
Author post Fish Eggs and Fiction 17 Dec 201824 Jan 2019 After a long dry spell, I suddenly began placing stories in small-press magazines this year--even some that paid in cash! Since last winter, I have "sold"--sometimes for pay, sometimes compensated…
