Category Archives: Writing
Author Followings
In my last post, I mentioned that for the sake of diversity in my reading, I should put forth a greater effort to seek out minority authors and their stories. Read the past to see why this is important, in my opinion. Yet it brings up a far less important but nonetheless interesting …
Diversity in Fiction
Appropriate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day that I offer some thoughts on diversity, in this case in the fiction world. Let me open by saying that in no way does the level of diversity in fiction these days compare with the importance of Dr. King’s mission and the Civil Rights Movement. There are …
Duotrope
I finally joined. At least I’ll check it out for a few months. For those who don’t know, Duotrope is a sort of searchable database for writers. With it, one can search for magazines and journals and such that most match, in tone, style and length, the sort of piece one has written. A writer …
MMXVI
Happy New Year to all. I am obviously back at the blogging wheel as it were. As I tend to do with the first post of each year, I’m just going to lay out the general plans I have for the year, a sort of accountability thing. First I’ll say that I accomplished about 90% …
Unlocked: An anthology
Today I wanted to let everyone know that a piece of my flash fiction is part of an anthology now available here on Amazon. Titled Unlocked the anthology is a joint effort by members of a Frederick, Maryland writers group of which I have been a member. Each story in some fashion involved a key, in homage …
