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Another story on PenDust Radio
A few weeks after my story “Silver and Gold” was an episode of the PenDust Radio podcast from Rivercliff Books, I have a second story up. Originally published as “The Cat” in East Bay Review four years ago, it’s now an audio version renamed “Tell O’Toole O’Flaherty is Dead.” There’s a short Q&A with me […]
Booklist releases full list of stars for 2020
The 2nd Edition of Votes of Confidence for 2020 got an excellent starred review from Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association (ALA). For the end of the year, the magazine put out a special issue of all its starred books – the books that receive its highest recommendation – for 2020, and made […]
“Silver and Gold” now a PenDust Radio podcast episode
My short (well, technically) story “Silver and Gold” is now an episode of the PenDust Radio podcast from Rivercliff Books. You can listen to it at the site, which includes a short Q&A with me about the story. Or you can listen to it on Spotify, iTunes, the Apple Podcast app, etc. An excerpt: The […]
Short interview on the Lerner Books blog
My publisher, Lerner Books, is undertaking a nonfiction initiative for schools and libraries, called “5 Kinds of Nonfiction.” As part of the discussion on traditional nonfiction, the Lerner blog has a short interview with me about Votes of Confidence (and Rockin’ the Boat). An excerpt: I was a news reader at a young age. I […]
“River Have Mercy” in The Broken Plate
Though delayed from spring by the COVID-19 pandemic, the new issue of The Broken Plate from Ball State University is out, and it features my short story “River Have Mercy.” An excerpt: The first time I saw her, she was sitting on a bench near the river. She was reading with her legs crossed, in […]
Lots of reading lists recommending Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition
Just a few weeks from Election Day 2020, and with early voting already underway in many states, lots of bookstores and libraries are putting out reading lists with resources to learn more, and happy to report that Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition is showing up on a lot of them. Here are a few (collecting […]
Book signing in Ottawa, Illinois, this weekend
Doing my first socially-distant book signing of the pandemic era this weekend in Ottawa, Illinois (near Starved Rock). It’s part of the city’s literary festival and is co-sponsored by Prairie Fox Books and the Reddick Library. If you can’t make it, I’ll try to sign some extra stock for Prairie Fox.
