Announcement… Most Likely Good news 22 May 2022 I have just been notified that my unpublished collection of short stories has been chosen as a finalist in the Tartt First Fiction Award managed by the Livingston Press at the…
Announcement… Quiet on the Surface 7 Nov 2021 It’s been quiet on the surface here at the blog for a few weeks now, but underneath, the currents are surging. So to give you a glimpse of what’s happening…
Announcement Coming Soon, to a Small Screen Near You…in Fact, Probably in Your Hand 9 Jul 2020 Yesterday I was recorded reading a story and answering the usual writerly interview questions by the editors of Rock and a Hard Place magazine, a publication dedicated to "stories of…
Announcement… “Six Poems” 7 Apr 20207 Apr 2020 Here we go: issue #41 of Cholla Needles magazine just came out, and it includes six of my recent poems, being: "To the Remembered" "Has to Be" "This Box of…
Announcement… “Vengeance in Gray” 14 Jan 202014 Jan 2020 Here we go again! A new story published today: you can read "Vengeance in Gray," as well as a delightfully long list of poems, artworks, and other stories, in Backchannels…
Announcement… “Blame It on the Moon” 3 Jan 2020 Sure, the magazine's date says, "December 16, 2019," but, it didn't appear till today. So I count this publication as my first story to appear in 2020. It's in the…
Announcement “Burn Scar” 31 Dec 201931 Dec 2019 The last day of the year, and the last of twenty-four stories to be published in journals in 2019! My story, "Burn Scar," has just appeared in an online and…
Announcement More Coming Attractions 4 Oct 20194 Oct 2019 Well, sometimes journals take a long time to get a story into print...so here's a list of short works of mine that are scheduled to appear sometime soon: Edify Fiction's…
Author post The Rising Tide 19 Aug 201919 Aug 2019 The tide is rising for me, apparently; I had thought July and August would be slow months, with folks who can afford to take vacations out of town, and that…
Announcement Waiting Game 27 May 201927 May 2019 The waiting game is always a bit difficult: the one, I mean, which you play after the story has been accepted but before it appears in print or online. After…