When it rains, it pours! This morning, I received an acceptance from Floyd County Moonshine, a literary journal that dispenses “smooth home-distilled literature.” I can’t think of a better home for “Goody Two Shoes,” my short story about Rose, a stuck 1980s housewife/coupon queen who breaks bad to pursue her […]
I’ve shared with you that, a couple of years ago, I entered and won a couple of prose writing contests on a film industry platform called Coverfly. I did this in an attempt to show prospective agents that my book is literary-leaning, yes, but it also has cinematic/commercial potential. Last […]
My short story “The Big South” was published this morning in The Coachella Review. This story is from the novel-in-linked-stories I’m currently querying. It was inspired by the work of organizations like the Ventana Wildlife Society to bring the California condor back from the brink of extinction. Arguably, these birds are […]
Last year, I became a certified book coach in fiction. Over the last several months, I’ve been studying hard, and in March, I took a pretty intense certification test in memoir. On March 20th, I got the news that I passed! I’m now certified to coach both fiction and memoir. […]
My short story “Trees” was published today in a special issue of the New American Studies Journal on women and work in the nineteenth century. This is an abridged version of the story that won ScreenCraft’s 2023 Cinematic Short Story Competition and is one of the stories in the collection […]
I started a free Substack newsletter! It’s called My California. I’m writing about California history, sharing personal anecdotes about growing up in California, and exploring other things I’m interested in—so far, this has meant ghosts and grizzly bears, earthquakes and elephant seals. I’ve got lots of little-known-facts coming up, too! […]