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Praise for Snakes of St. Augustine

Snakes of St. Augustine, will be released by Regal House Publishing in September 2023. I am deeply grateful to the following wonderful...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...