*Cover photography by Casey McSpadden The Nervous Breakdown Book Club Robert Vaughan and I are thrilled to pieces that RIFT has been chosen for the TNB Book Club! Past monthly selections from: Matt Bell, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jami Attenberg, Amelia Gray, and more. If you want to receive an early copy of RIFT you need to
I sit under the elm tree in our front yard with a jar of moths in my lap. I have forgotten to punch holes in the lid like my father told me to and now the moths are dead. I want to float away, but the sky feels like a giant’s hand, pushing me down.
RIFT is getting awesome praise from our very generous early readers, writing mentors, and literary heroes. Many thanks to: Lidia Yuknavitch, xtx, Daniel Handler, Michael Martone, Ron Carlson, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jensen Beach, Robert Lopez, Michael Seidlinger, Ryan Ridge, and Luke Goebel! Read what they have to say about RIFT here on our page at
Thrilled by our beautiful cover! Many thanks to Bud Smith at Unknown Press, and to cover photographer, Casey McSpadden at Cross River Photography For more information about RIFT, co-authored with the great Robert Vaughan, see our page at Unknown Press
Things are moving quickly with the upcoming co-authored short fiction collection with Bud Smith’s Unknown Press. Robert Vaughan and I are busy exchanging edits and deciding the layout and order of our stories. We have found an amazing photographer for the cover art (which I’ll reveal soon!), and we are actively seeking blurbs. And once
EDIT: THIS WORKSHOP FILLED VERY QUICKLY! STAY TUNED FOR INFORMATION ON FUTURE WORKSHOPS. THANK YOU! Registration is now open for my weekend Flash Fiction workshop thru Word Tango! First come, first served. Join us! More information below: In this workshop you will write a 500-word piece of flash fiction in one weekend. Flash legend Kathy
Just completed the first official Fast Flash© Workshop this past weekend and it went great! Had an amazing group of smart, talented writers who were so much fun to work with. And the September workshop is already filled! But watch this space for announcements of future workshops. Today, I received my contributor copy of Heavy Feather
One morning in January, when all was lost, a man rolled himself up inside the braided rug of the foyer of his home. It felt good there. It reminded him of how the nurses taught him and his wife to swaddle their babies, for comfort. Tight, tight. Babies are frightened of their own bodies. Un-used
Last night I finished my second read of Myfanwy Collins’ second novel, The Book of Laney. It is both a daring work and an extraordinary achievement. Daring, because it takes on one of the most heartbreaking and difficult to comprehend topics imaginable, that of mass killings on school property by students. The novel covers at
Woke up to a lovely surprise this morning. The editors of Blue Fifth Review have featured excerpts from my collection, Together We Can Bury It (The Lit Pub, 2012), along with gorgeous excerpts from Barbara Jane Reyes’ Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005) and Evie Shockley’s a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006) as