Sometimes a Great Notion
I just finished reading this book. It took me 200 pages to realize Kesey wasn't just fucking with me. Well, 217 pages, actually. There was just something about the following…
I just finished reading this book. It took me 200 pages to realize Kesey wasn't just fucking with me. Well, 217 pages, actually. There was just something about the following…
I recently read two books that seemingly have little to do with each other: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow and Atticus by Ron Hansen. What struck me about these two…
The more I read first passages in books, the more I see this first part as œThe Promise of the Book. It™s really where the author needs to say, œHere™s…
Black Hill Press just announced the winners of the Summer Writing Project, and Will Kill for Food is one of the three. That means the novella will be published in…
My novella, Will Kill For Food, is one of six finalists in Black Hill Press's Summer Writing Project. This means it's one step closer to being published. There were twelve semi-finalists. Now there are six. BHP editors will select three among these to be published later this year.
I guess we'll see what happens. Soon, I hope.
I'm not a huge fan of "X Reasons" blog posts, but it seems appropriate in this case. I stumbled on JukePop by way of Black Hill Press and the Summer…
Recently, I came across some awkward language I had written. It wasn't Latin, per se, but it was stilted. It reminded me of John Gardner's dictum not to use Latinate…
Why I Wrote the Story For some time, I have been planning to write a novel about the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (also known as the Rodney…
This morning my novella, Will Kill for Food, was accepted by JukePop for online publishing. The short story (no pun there) is that I'd like to ask anyone who's interested to…
A few months ago, I completed what I think is a version of my novel March Bicycle Madness worth circulating. Since then, I have been settling down to the far more…