Event: Waterbear Reading Series, Saturday, October 26 at One More Page Books
I’m thrilled to be taking part in the October edition of the Waterbear Reading Series at One More Page Books […]
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Upcoming Event: Northern Virginia Writers Club Workshop
This coming Saturday—July 27—from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.—I’ll be leading the workshop “Bring Life to Your Characters and Shape to Your
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Catching Up On My Reading….
Over the last week or so, I’ve been catching up on recent issues of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, taking some
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New Fiction: “Ithaca 37” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
I’m thrilled to have had two stories appearing in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine this year—the second of which has just
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Not-So-New Fiction: “Visions and Revisions” at Redux
Nearly 10 years ago, I was fortunate to be a finalist for North American Review‘s first Kurt Vonnegut Prize for
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Interview at Literary Mama
Thanks so much to the good folks at Literary Mama (and to Colleen Kearney Rich, specifically) for including me as
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Story A Day: Wrapping Up May
A couple of reading/writing/reviewing deadlines sidelined my ability to keep up with the blog posts here on my Story A
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Story A Day: “Dead on Her Feet” by Cornell Woolrich
Another story from the Cornell Woolrich collection I started yesterday—this one more of a straight whodunit, but with some grisly
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Story A Day: “The Night Reveals” by Cornell Woolrich
Just got in the mail the Centipede Press collection Speak to Me of Death: The Collected Short Fiction of Cornell
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Story A Day: “Hiding” by Frances Badgett
Flash fiction obviously works on the less is more principle—relying on being suggestive rather than exhaustive in its descriptions of
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Story A Day: “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”
In addition to reading the complete stories of Stanley Ellin, Tara and I have also been working out way—aloud—through the
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Story A Day: “Jhonathan and the Witchs” by Stephen King
Writer and editor Paul Mandelbaum gathered the childhood writings of 22 distinguished authors—including Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Michael Crichton, Allan