During the month of July, Smashwords.com is having a site-wide promotion. For the southern hemisphere, it’s the Winter Sale; for those of us in the north, it’s the Summer Sale. My titles are available for free using coupon code SW100. … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Last week when I was at the Baltimore Book Festival browsing through the titles at Daedelus Books’ tent, I came across new copy of an old favorite book about writing, John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for … Continue reading →
