A Lucky Short Story Time
I am gobsmacked and delighted to have had one of my short-short stories chosen to be read at this year’s Lucky Shorts performance in Napa, CA. Two years ago, I was honored to appear on their stage myself to read…
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Overwriters Anonymous
At our small town’s single transfer print shop, the owner hefts a large paper bag across the counter toward me. It contains a print-out of my current writing project, a novel. I take it home and shove it into a…
Query Weary
I attended a query workshop this weekend. A query, for those of you who don’t speak writer jargon, is the thing you send out to agents or magazine editors or anybody who you think might have a snowball’s chance in…
Starter’s Block
ignatianspirituality.com What is it about beginning something that is so fraught? Especially, very most especially, a writing project. For me, beginning a big writing project comes more heavily freighted with angst than the other beginnings one normally associates with stress: a…
FREE: My Birthday Gift To You
Whee! My birthday is this week, on July 6. And you thought all the fireworks were about something else, didn’t you? klaw.com To celebrate the anniversary of my nativity, I am offering my Kindle ebook, CORPSE POSE: AND OTHER TALES,…