I have a story in print again! My short story “The Art of Oblivion” is in a hardcover beach noir anthology, The Amber Waves of Autumn. It’s currently available in hardcover and will eventually be available in paperback. The most exciting thing about this publication for me is the other […]
My essay “Slipstreamed” is the featured essay in bioStories this week. Publishing in this journal was the best publishing experience I’ve had so far as a writer–the editor loved my essay, really understood it and me, and made the whole experience so pleasant. This essay means so much to me […]
My short story “Goody Two Shoes” is in the summer 2024 issue of Floyd County Moonshine. This is my first short story published in a print journal! This journal that brews up “smooth home-distilled literature” is the perfect home for my story about Rose, a dissatisfied, thrifty, coupon-clipping homemaker who dreams […]
I have a new essay out in the Los Angeles Times this morning! It will be in the print edition on Sunday under the title “She Seeks Romance at the Seashore”–I love this title, which the editors came up with, because of the way it’s reminiscent of the tongue twister: “She […]
I took a hiatus from my blog, The Write Stuff, around this time last year. I’d been posting every week for two years, right here on my website. I was working on some especially time-consuming projects at the time, I wasn’t feeling the same joy I’d previously felt while writing the […]
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 […]