Brother, can you spare a book?

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Kind of by accident I entered a competition over at speakcoffee for the literary journals she was cleaning out of her apartment. I had completely forgotten about it, actually, until I read her post today and saw my handle up there. It threw me because I have myself been trying ...

More exciting words

Friday, April 30th, 2010

This morning, I discovered more words I could add to my "most exciting words in the English language" category: We are pleased to tell you that we have decided to publish your story "The White" in Every Day Fiction. No publication date as of yet, but officially this is my ...

Something Like That

Monday, March 1st, 2010

My second story has been published at Halfway Down the Stairs. Check it out.

Don’t pay the ferryman until he gets you to the other side

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Read a great short this morning that took me back to my high school Latin class days. I haven't kept up with my "one short story a day" commitment, but I am still trying to read more shorts. When I stared at her in silence, she raised a wrinkled ...

Short Story reading goal

Friday, December 11th, 2009

The short story has been getting a lot of press lately. Not without reason. The e-book market is starting to dig in for the long haul and I for one am glad for it. Writers have so many places to submit work these days the task can be overwhelming. And ...

Some good reads

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Been a while since I posted my last book review. I've been reading and editing my own novel during what has been my reading free time to meet my self-imposed deadline of finishing the draft by the end of September. That gives me less than two months with a lot ...