Announcement… Live Reading in Westwood on September 9th 9 Aug 2019 I will be reading along with several other local authors on Monday, September 9th, at the Westwood Branch Library in West Los Angeles. We are all contributors to this year's…
Announcement Recorded Live, Now on Podcast 28 Jul 2019 LA’s Skylight Bookshas put last month's Switchblade Magazine author’s evening up in a podcast! You can hear me read "Off the Deep End" (soon to appear in The Metaworker magazine) near the beginning…
Author post Coming Attractions 19 Jul 2019 I don't usually post about stories I've sold until they're actually published, but then I figured, our friends in the movie biz shriek out teasers all the time, so I…
Announcement I’ve Got Mine…Now Get Yours! 19 Jun 201919 Jun 2019 I received my copy of American Writers Review at last, in yesterday's mail, and it is a handsome anthology: well-bound, with a good cover, and easy to read inside (despite…
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…
