Congratulations to my friend Scott William Carter for winning the Oregon Book Award. His terrific Young Adult novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, won the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature. Check out Scott’s work, both his novels and short stories. He’s an excellent writer.
Four More Short Stories Available for Kindle et al
Four more of my stories are now available in all electronic formats through Pentucket Publishing. If you’re looking for categories, three of them are horror (though one with some very dark humor) and the other a humorous fantasy. One of them, “Baby One More Time,” prompted the following review: “For sheer outrageousness, few writers beat Dave’s […]
Always striving
In a recent post, I mentioned that I had just returned from a writers’ workshop. A non-writer friend of mine — yes, I do have friends who aren’t writers — said, “Why are you still going to workshops? I thought you sold a novel. Do you still need that stuff?” The answer for me was easy. When […]
Cracking the Ice – blurb #3
I’ve been sharing blurbs for Cracking the Ice, my novel due out in early June and here’s another. (A blurb is that glowing quote that when potential readers see it on the cover, prompts them to plunk down their hard-earned cash.) This one comes from Richard Harris, who graciously gave of his time to talk to me about his experiences […]
Publisher’s Marketplace Announces Cracking the Ice Deal
The wheels are indeed churning. My novel Cracking the Ice hit Publisher’s Marketplace last Friday with the following announcement in its “Deals” section. Dave Hendrickson’s CRACKING THE ICE, delving into the perilous world of a phenomenal black teen hockey player who accepts a scholarship to an all-white prep school in New England in 1968 during the […]
Bubba Goes for Broke
I’m really looking forward to WestSide Books publishing my Young Adult novel Cracking the Ice in June. But I’ll be electronically publishing another novel, Bubba Goes for Broke, through Pentucket Publishing in the next couple weeks. A paper version will follow in a few months. To avoid confusion, I’m using the pseudonym David H. Bawdy for Bubba […]
Cracking the Ice – blurb # 2
A few weeks ago, I shared the first blurb for Cracking the Ice, my novel due out in early June and promised more. (A blurb is that glowing quote from another writer that when potential readers see it on the cover, prompts them to plunk down their hard-earned cash.) This next blurb comes from Greg Neri, author […]
Monday morning humor
I got a customer service email from Amazon this morning with the letter “o” missing from “Hello.” Yup, that’s my Monday morning. How did they know?
Sale of a ghost story
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve sold “Automobile Graveyard” to the anthology Ghostology. The story is a personal favorite that came out of a scary situation, after which I asked,”What if?” I didn’t really want to go there, but the intensity of my own emotions carried into the story. Or at least I think so. It’s the only story […]
It’s great to be a writer
I just got back from a terrific writing workshop on the Oregon Coast run by Dean Wesley Smith and Kris Rusch along with visiting editors Denise Little and John Helfers. I was one of thirty-six professional writers who wrote two stories for prospective anthologies, one in advance and one while there. I never stepped foot on the […]