Author post “Prisoners” Reviewed 19 May 2019 As you may know, I have published three stories in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, since early last year. Here's a favorable review of the current issue, Switchblade #9, with this…
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… 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…
Announcement Last Chance to Vote…for Me 9 Dec 2018 Now that I'm a finalist in Short Édition's story contest, it's time to beg for votes to give me a chance at the grand prize. This prize involves both money…
Announcement… Another Fine Mess 21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 My flash fiction piece, "The Invalid," has been published online in Short Édition, and is entered in one of their contests, so read it and maybe also vote for it,…
Author post Literacy Lit 21 Sep 201822 Sep 2018 I work part-time as an Adult Literacy Coordinator at the Echo Park branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, and one of the programs I started is a "literacy book…
Author post… American Fugue: Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” 30 Jul 20182 Aug 2018 Some scholarly-minded sorts have made a parlor game of trying to identify actual landmarks in Hemingway's masterful short story, "Big Two-Hearted River." They complain that the burnt town named as…
Author post To Lie for Truth’s Sake: the Novelist’s Conundrum 20 Apr 201820 Apr 2018 The job of a fiction writer is to lie. Still, if it were only to lie, you could dedicate yourself to advertising or politics instead, and accept troubled sleep as…
Announcement… 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…
