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What is Left After a Pandemic?
  • Mar 29
  • 1 min

What is Left After a Pandemic?

Check out my review of Carla Rachel Sameth's darkly humorous collection of pandemic-era poems, What is Left. The review appears on the...
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Thank you, Regal House Publishing!
  • Aug 10, 2021
  • 1 min

Thank you, Regal House Publishing!

I'm honored and thrilled to work with Regal House Publishing (RHP) -- an independent, traditional publisher with a stellar reputation for...
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Writing Prompt: What Have You Seen With Your Own Eyes?
  • May 15, 2021
  • 2 min

Writing Prompt: What Have You Seen With Your Own Eyes?

WASHOUT -- The sea turtle eggs, round and pale as golf balls, gaped from the side of the dune where the overheated, angry ocean had...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Craft Notes
  • Nov 14, 2020
  • 2 min

Down the Rabbit Hole: Craft Notes

Jake Wolff recently won the Internet. Wolff, a creative writing professor, editor and director of The Florida Review, and author of The...
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The FWA Saves 2020
  • Oct 18, 2020
  • 1 min

The FWA Saves 2020

2020 unleashed a global pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, and many bad DIY haircuts, but on Oct. 17, a nice thing happened. I won a gold...
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Writing Prompt: What’s Your Most Cherished Childhood Place?
  • Jan 5, 2020
  • 5 min

Writing Prompt: What’s Your Most Cherished Childhood Place?

My friend Alan as a young boy, standing on his uncle's shoulders in Brazil, ready to leap into his future, with many cousins in the...
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Writing Prompt: You See a Body of Water ...
  • Jul 28, 2019
  • 3 min

Writing Prompt: You See a Body of Water ...

Is it a freshwater pond? If so, is the water stagnant and murky, or clear, with light dancing on its surface? Maybe the body of water is...
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Me Write Pretty One Day
  • Jul 2, 2019
  • 3 min

Me Write Pretty One Day

Whenever I’m learning a new skill – let’s say, how to properly document a sea turtle nest, surf tiny waves, or make toast without burning...
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The 13 Moons of Writer's Block
  • Jun 9, 2019
  • 2 min

The 13 Moons of Writer's Block

“It’s just that my protagonist doesn’t want her brother to die,” I told a traveling companion at a café in Kathmandu. “I think it might...
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Plot Goddess Invents QVC Queen
  • Jun 9, 2019
  • 2 min

Plot Goddess Invents QVC Queen

The struggle was real. After reading my forthcoming novel, City in a Forest, an editor whose opinion I trust (Kim Sheeter) pointed out...
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Epic Snake Orgy Cures Writer's Block
  • Jun 9, 2019
  • 1 min

Epic Snake Orgy Cures Writer's Block

In my third novel, Seeing Gethin, my protagonist’s brother is crazy about snakes—brown, red, spotted, striped, harmless, venomous, or...
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