Welcome to the Wild Life
I am so jazzed to be featured on PAGE ONE of Ruthless Peoples Magazine's Wild Life issue (download by clicking on the picture). I LOVE RPM. Their fantastic taste notwithstanding, I love their crisp pdf layout and their "reader guidance" comments. Funny comments.  This issue is full of what I call "safe" pieces, but Tom Sykes' Bad Territory #2 is prefaced with:  Be advised that this is not light reading and will easily offend even robust individuals.  I know, some of you are now going to ru

Love from MSNBC
So I go out of town for a few days.  To my gram's cabin, nestled in an internet/mobile-phone free zone.  To breathe for a sec.  And look what happens! Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyI've been waiting for this to go live for ages.  Very fun.  I'm honored to share this clip with David Erlewine and

September Slipped By
September. What a month. My head is still spinning. To the point that I can only think in bullets:My poem "He Asks" came out in the print-only Rattlesnake Review. Surprise Valley Writers Conference asked me to be their submissions chair for next year's conference.  I

Tilt at 50 to 1
After two weeks of sinusitis and migraine, I felt like my head was under water. So it's funny that my latest story, Tilt, just made it into today's 50 to 1 issue, appropriately dubbed

Crush on CPR
If you're a writer and you haven't played Show Me Your Lits, get over there and DO IT! I don't play every week, but I make a point to flash at least twice a month.It's a good thing, too. Now that the kids are back in school, I have a stack of stories to polish and submit. This morning I sent out three of them...and