Publishing

  • As an editor with a fledgling journal and a lot of passion for connecting with other writers, I like to send feedback with my responses to submissions, be they rejections or acceptances. I do this for many reasons, the strongest of which is simply that when I receive a response, especially a rejection, I like…

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  • Editor Mode: ACTIVATE.

    Those of you who are paying attention know that it’s August, which means I’m going to start talking about the World Unknown Review a lot these next couple months. August is when I really start to hone in and focus on getting submissions and reading them, leaving a good solid three months before the October…

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  • Everyone always reflects on what they did and didn’t do in the previous year, what they plan to do in the next year around this time, and I’m no exception. I’m just spreading my reflections out like butter to help me keep a good pace with daily postings. Today, I’d like to look back at…

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  • Okay, so my little blip in activity here has been a bit too long to truly be a “Halloween Hangover,” and the cause of my inactivity has much more to do with starting my new job and getting acclimated to it than anything else, but, hey, it’s a catchy title, right? My Halloween was pretty…

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  • I had an interesting thought the other day as I was stressing out about this, that, and the other thing (mostly the other thing), and I’m not quite sure how it’s going to work out. Like most thoughts rife with uncertainty, though, the best way to figure it out is to just go ahead and…

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  • Things have been pretty dull around here, as I’ve been in a big blogging funk that’s led to quite possibly the quietest release ever for the second book in The Slayer Saga, Heartless (have you got your copy yet?). But, really, my focus has already shifted, as excited as I am to have a new…

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  • Welcome to August, everyone! It’s hard to believe that what is usually deemed as the last month of the Summer is already here. But August brings more than hot weather and back-to-school sales. It brings my next release, the second book in the Slayer Saga trilogy, Heartless! The further adventures of the Slayer of the…

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  • It’s July 15th!

    As the title of this post, your calender, your phone, and whatever other time-telling device may tell you, today is July 15th! The Ides of July is a particularly exciting day for me, because it means that the next installment of The Slayer Saga, Heartless, will be released exactly one month from now! I can’t…

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  • I am very, very pleased to announce that the issue of The First Line (Summer 2015) with my story “Laura and Ollie” is currently available for purchase and perusal. It’s a really cool journal with one basic guideline: Whatever you write, it has to start with the given first line, so that everything starts the…

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  • The Maine Review Volume 1, Issue 3, Winter 2015 Some of you already knew that one of my stories, “Flesh and Feathers,” (which also makes an appearance in my short story collection Bowlful of Bunnies) was published earlier this year by The Maine Review for their Winter 2015 edition, a particularly exciting event that broke…

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