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Anderson’s Bookstore Children’s Literature Breakfast #5
For the fifth year in a row, I’m a featured author at the Anderson’s Bookstore annual Children’s Literature Breakfast in the western suburbs this weekend. With Votes of Confidence awaiting a new edition, I will be signing Rockin’ the Boat and meeting with librarians and teachers. If you’re going, stop by and say hi.
Once Upon a Time in Alexandria out now
My short story “The Tin Platoon” appears in the new edition of Curating Alexandria, which focuses on fairy tales. Even cooler, they asked me to write the introduction to the collection. This book, titled Once Upon a Time in Alexandria, is the third produced in the series, the second to feature me, and available as […]
“About the Time” in Manhattanville Review
The winter issue of The Manhattanville Review came out today, including my short story “About the Time.” An excerpt: “I have a silly question,” she says. She always likes to talk after. Usually about whatever album I have playing on the stereo. She glides her cheek along my right armpit and onto my chest, so […]
“She-Wolf” in Zoetic Press
For the fourth time, I have a story in Zoetic Press Non-Binary Review. “She-Wolf” appears in the new Dante’s Inferno issue. It’s also available as a podcast, the first time I’ve had a fiction story appear as an audio story. An excerpt: As I ran from the shadows of the other beasts, the third of […]
New publisher
Couldn’t post about this earlier, but Zest Books was recently acquired by Lerner Books. That means Rockin’ the Boat and Votes of Confidence are now part of the Lerner family, and the 2020 edition of Votes will be published by the new publisher.
“The Tomb” in Hofstra’s Windmill
My short story “The Tomb” is newly published, with Hofstra University’s literary magazine, Windmill. I haven’t gotten the issue yet, but can’t wait to see it. An excerpt: We first noticed them in the spring. Rhonda and I had moved into the third-floor walk-up in late February. Her mother had suggested we would find a […]
Curating Alexandria’s Halloween edition now out
The Halloween edition of Curating Alexandria is now out in both book and ebook form, and features my short story “Ite In Pace,” which originally appeared in The Write Launch. An excerpt: The family palazzo I inherited only after it had passed through many hands. You will not suppose, however, that I wasn’t pleased to […]
