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What do Kurt Vonnegut and I have in common?
OK… probably not all the much, really. But, as of December, I’ll be able to say that we’ve both been published by The Satuday Evening Post. They just bought my short story, Undocumented, to use on their website as part of their New Fiction Friday series! I’m very excited about it. The only bad news…
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Summer Sale!
Last September, I put the e-book version of Peripheral Involvement on sale for $0.99 for a limited time and ran a few advertisements. The resulting sales boost (briefly) took it into the top 2,000 on the Kindle Best Seller list and the top 50 in Amazon’s Mystery, Thriller & Suspense subcategory for Literary Fiction. Those rankings didn’t last, but it was…
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More Good News
I just heard that someone wants to publish a little humor piece that I wrote called Daddy’s Annual Performance Review. It’s not really a short story – I’d call it more of a conceptual kind of thing. Anyway, it’s been accepted by theNewerYork (the placement of that “er” makes all the difference, doesn’t it?), and…
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Smells Like… Victory!
I’ve got some really cool news to announce today. I was just informed that my short story, Short-Changed, was accepted for publication! It’s going to appear in the March 2015 issue of Mulberry Fork Review. I am grateful that their editors think enough of my work to include it in their magazine, and I’m absolutely…
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A Watched Pot…
Happy New Year, everyone! As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been submitting my short story, Short-Changed, to various literary journals and magazines. It’s been a while since I’ve submitted my work anywhere, and I almost forgot how nerve-racking the process can be. I am not, by nature, a patient person, so having to wait weeks (and,…
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I’m Still Here…
… although you wouldn’t know it if you looked at my blog. Pretty shameful stuff on my end, not having posted anything here since September. I guess that’s part of the challenge of being a part time author – it’s easy to let things slide, and before you know it, you’ve gone three months without updating…