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New Book Release: everything you want to know about love and confusion

You can now buy Implosions of America: Nine Stories at Amazon’s Kindle Store ($2.99 is a good deal). It’s also available as a paperback at CreateSpace.com and the Amazon book site for $7.99. These nine stories are about life as a […]

A Brief Excerpt from “So Beautiful”: Read the Rest in Implosions of America

Below is a very short excerpt from the middle of a story in the collection Implosions of America. I’ve tried as best I can over the years to write interesting, uncommon fiction that both touches deep and makes the reader […]

Wanted: Reviewers and Book Bloggers

Implosions of America: Nine Stories will be released Friday morning on Amazon as an ebook. You can already get it as a paperback at CreateSpace. The paperback will be available through Amazon before the weekend is over. I’m still thinking […]

Story Excerpt from the Collection Implosions of America

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 […]

Implosions of America: An Election Story

With two weeks to go before our national election, I have had posted the following election short story…but it’s gone now. When a story implodes it’s an ugly site. You should have seen it. 32 years ago we had an election […]