THE CHOICE GAME (a 2,400 word excerpt) The eclipsing sun pierced my right pupil for just a split second as the moon slid into place and Bailey’s Beads began to spin. Bailey’s Beads are little solar flames of prismed ruby […]
Talking Indie Addendum: More On Making it Through the Indie Slush World
My first “Talking Indie” column, “Sorry, Your Buddies Won’t Buy Your Book,” was published today at the online magazine Talking Writing. If you haven’t read it, you can check it out HERE. It’s all about getting over the friends and […]
Gracing Along the Edge of Reality
After reading A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and the last part of On the Road. That sense that here I am touching more than myself, but, fantastically, and with dumb luck, I have stumbled toward the top of a ravine […]
The Bone and the Flower: New Frontiers of Literature or Sexual Fantasy?
Guernica, which is one of the best online culture magazines out there today, just posted their November 1 edition, and it’s quite a compendium of stories, interviews, essays, art, and poetry. They offer a pretty insightful interview with Junot Diaz […]
Implosions of America Short Story About to Self-Destruct
Sometime this evening, I will be pulling the plug on my post of the title story to my new collection, Implosions of America. Read it now, save it, or print it out. And remember that November 16 is the release […]
Goodreads GiveAway: Signed Copy of Beyond the Will of God
If you’re a Goodreads member, you should enter my special GiveAway offer of an autographed paperback edition of Beyond the Will of God. The GiveAway contest is running from October 12 thru October 23. This is a worldwide competition. As […]
