Publications

Things I Wrote

(That someone actually deemed fit to publish. Maybe you'll read some. Rachel usually does, and yep, that's her, my determined and voracious reader.)

• The Very Strange Matter of Eliot Rover, short fiction for Quantum Shorts, published January, 2020

• Heartbeats & Dragon Curves: The Birth of a Story, guest-post for Amira K. Makansi's wonderful website, The Z Axis, published 9-12-19.

• Writing's Secret Formula: How to Write Stories that Matter, Guest-Post for KM Weiland's award-winning website, Helping Writers Become Authors, published 9-9-19.

• It's Alive! Guest-Post for Author Magazine, published 8-31-17.

• That Beautiful Time of Nightmares, 2nd-place contest winner for Amid the Imaginary blog, published 11-1-16.

• Never Say Never, guest-post for ProBlogger, published 9-15-16.

• Promises to Keep, Miles to Go, guest-post for Gilda Evans' blog, published 4-25-16

• Why Writing Flash Fiction Can Help You Write a Better Book, guest-post for Kate Tilton, published 9-10-15. 

• A Dream Continued, A Promise Fulfilled, guest-post for Gilda Evans' blog, published 8-5-15.

• 3 Reasons to Stop Relying on How-To Lists for Information(and What to Do Instead)!, guest post for PROBLOGGER, published 4-17-15.

• Save Room for Epilogue, short-fiction for Carbon Culture Review, published 2-1-15.

• Writing for Young Adults: How to Create Exceptional Literature, guest-post for KM Weiland's Helping Writers Become Authors site, published 12-19-14.

• To Build or Not to Build, guest-post  for the inimitable Rachel Thompson, the Bad Redhead herself, on her wildly popular site, BadRedhead Media, published 9-08-14.

• Requiem for a Mouse, flash fiction for The Hoot literary magazine, publication date June, 2014. Have you visited The Hoot? It is a really novel operation run by some really cool folks--online stories and stories on a postcard! Check them out. 

• Are 5-Star Book Reviews Bad for Sales?, guest-post for KM Weiland's great Helping Writers Become Authors site, published 6-13-14.

• Why Giving and Receiving Effective Criticism is so Hard, and How we Can Get it Right, guest-post for Firepole Marketing, published, 6-3-14.

• How to Find Your Muse...and Fire Her! Guest post for the amazing Men With Pens site, published 5-22-14.

• Darkness, a flash fiction piece for Doorknobs and BodyPaint. Please note you must click on Issue 74 and then click on my story. Published 5-20-14.

• How to Get Awesome Guest-Blogging Gigs with CPR, guest-post for award-winning author Carol Tice, published 5-7-14.

• A Dream Deferred, guest-post for L.A.-based author and radio personality Gilda Evans, published May 1, 2014. 

• The Ties that Bind: Five Traits Shared By Great Suspense Novels, guest post for talented British novelist Maggie James, published April 25, 2014.

• Infinity, flash fiction contest winner  for Kal Ba Publishing, publication date, March 17, 2014.

• Elementary? The Unresolved Case of Holmes v. Dupin, and 4 Ways it Can Improve Your Writing, guest-blog on KM Weiland's top-ranked author site, publication date March 21, 2014. 

• It Takes a Village to Raise an Author: How to Grow Your Own Literary Community, and Why You Should, guest-blog on top-ranked author site of Joanna Penn, The Creative Penn,  publication date March 30, 2014.

• Revive Your Goals with CPR, guest blog for Firepole Marketing, on relationship-building, publication date March 13, 2014. 

• 3 Ways Great Nonfiction Can Be the Fiction Writer's Greatest Resource, guest-post on top-ranked website of author CS Lakin, publication date of April 14.

**Stay Tuned: many exciting opportunities in the works, but you don't talk about it until it's confirmed, ya know? Superstitions and all. ("I'm not superstitious. I'm a little bit stitious though." Michael Scott.)