Category Archives: On Writing

“All Over Again” released

Pentucket Publishing has released my short story “All Over Again” in all electronic formats. Sample the opening scenes to this dark fantasy. Walter and Edith have lived a satisfying life together. But an anonymous fiftieth anniversary gift offers a chance to be twenty years old all over again.  For one of them. Available for 99 cents in […]

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You Can’t “Just Write”

Maybe in the old days, a writer could “just write” and let a paternalistic (or maternalistic) agent take care of all that nasty business stuff. But not anymore. You’ve got to be reading the posts by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Passive Guy, Mike Stackpole, and more. Kris, Dean, and Mike have all agreed on […]

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Cracking the Ice – blurb #4

I’ve been sharing blurbs for Cracking the Ice, my novel due out in July 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 next blurb comes from Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Ninth Ward, a 2011 Coretta […]

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Reading list

I’ll be taking a Short Story Writing workshop soon with the incomparable Kristine Kathyrn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Here’s the reading list of five anthologies that I need to read in six weeks. Care to join me? Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume […]

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Bubba Goes for Broke released

Pentucket Publishing has just released my crime caper novel, Bubba Goes for Broke, written under the pen name David Bawdy. It’s available in all electronic formats; a trade paperback will be released in the summer. Since it’s an R-rated novel — you might call it bawdy — I felt compelled to use a pen name to distinguish this book from my […]

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Congrats to Scott Carter

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.

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 […]

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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 […]

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