Category Archives: writing

Natural Selection

As part of my continuing experiment with electronic publishing, I have added my short story “Natural Selection” to my eBook store.  When this story was originally published last October in Cantaraville, wrote extensively about how it came to be written … Continue reading

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iPad Books for Sale

Two of my mini-eBooks (After the Fire and A Couple) made it into the first electronic shipment of premium catalog titles from Smashwords to the Apple iPad bookstore.  It took quite a big effort on the part of the people … Continue reading

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eBook Week, Meta-Memoir

The Reader is Horizontal As I wrote yesterday, this week is “Read an eBook Week.”  While the printed book is in no danger of extinction, technological innovations, as well as business model innovations, make it clear that the way books … Continue reading

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Gifts

Part 1: This essay was originally published three years ago in Seeker Magazine.  When I began writing it, my only intent was to document a family story that was going to be forever lost due to the passage of time.  … Continue reading

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Into the Abyss

When Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City was published in 1984, it took the publishing world by storm and ushered in a new era of edgy young writers.  Bright Lights, Big City chronicles the emotional, psychological, and spiritual downward spiral … Continue reading

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