Will Kill for Food is a Winner
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…
5 Reasons to Publish with JukePop
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…
“Will Kill For Food” is now a serial
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…
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adventure!
My son and I have been reading classic boys adventure novels. You know, Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, Journey to the Centre of the Earth . . . It started…
Wild mustard
Two Views of Mustard
Apparently, wild mustard made an impression in late-1800s Southern California . . .
The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament, in the branches of which the birds of the air may rest. Coming up out of the earth, so slender a stem that dozens can find starting-point in an inch, it darts up, a slender straight shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine feathery branches locking and interlocking with all the other hundreds around it, till it is an inextricable network like lace. (more…)
Ramona (1884)
Ramona
"The shepherds, the herdsmen, the maids, the babies, the dogs, the poultry, all loved the sight of Ramona." I recently read Ramona, the 1884 novel by Helen Hunt Jackson that launched…
Process and Novel Writing
The process of writing a novel is daunting. There are probably as many means and systems as there are writers. I found one that seems promising, and I have been…
Bullet in the Brain
Bullet in the Brain is a short story written by Tobias Wolff and originally published in New Yorker magazine in the September 25, 1995 issue. At just under 2,000 words,…
Tolstoy on a Late Spring
"Spring was a long time unfolding. During the last weeks of Lent the weather was clear and frosty. In the daytime it thawed in the sun, but at night it…