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 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… 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 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:…
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…
Announcement… On a Roll 3 Dec 20183 Dec 2018 I seem to be on a roll lately (and I don't mean an onion roll, though I have baked some pretty good ones...). Just learned that I have placed another…
Announcement On the Street 31 May 201831 May 2018 Just wanted to let you all know that Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, which has been foolish enough to publish two of my crime stories so far, is available at…
event Killin’ ‘Em at Noir Night 19 Oct 2017 Here's a pair of pix from yesterday evening's "Noir Night Assaults the Battery," a co-production (however small) by Crow Tree Books and Switchblade Magazine. I read "The Price of a…
