I just received word that my story, The Singularity is in Beta, won an honorable mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest for the 1st quarter of 2020. Not a win, but it’s something! Congratulations to all the other honorable mentions, and to the winners of course! I can’t wait to read your sci-fi in the upcoming anthology.

Myself and another finalist for the 48^th New Millennium Fiction Award will be doing a reading at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery in the Mission on Thursday, March 5th, at 7 pm, where we’ll both be reading excerpts from our stories. If anyone would like to come and support us or this great space, Alley Cat’s address is 3036 24th St., San Francisco, CA 94110, just two blocks from BART. Hope to see you there!

A while back I entered my (long) short story “Principessa di Fiamme, Princess of Flames” in New Millennium's 48th New Millennium Award for Fiction, which accepts previously published works (“Principessa di Fiamme” was originally published in Eclectica Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3, July/August, 2018). I’ve just found out that New Millennium has selected my story as a finalist!

This story has a special place for me. I originally got the idea from a freak show poster of an intriguing performer. I wanted to write a story about her, but as far as the internet was concerned she didn’t exist. I never learned anything about the mysterious poster or performer, but the idea of the story never left my head. I kicked it around for a long time before I figured out a way to write it out – it was also partially inspired by the Coney Island Circus Sideshow – but I’m so glad I finally got it on paper, and I’m so glad New Millennium appreciates it enough to consider it!

I’m very proud to be able to say out loud that my story, “Midnight At Red’s,” has just been nominated for a Pushcart by Another Chicago Magazine! I can’t express how happy I am about this and I can’t wait until late Spring.

I’m thrilled to announce that my story, "Midnight At Red’s," has been published by Another Chicago Magazine, and is available to read on their website! This story and I go way back, and I’m excited it found such a good place online.

Two of my flash stories, “This Job is Part Time and Has No Insurance” and “Being Psychic Is Weirder than You’d Expect,” have just been selected for publication in BAM’s 42 Stories Anthology! Thanks Sandra Bedynek, for inspiration on “This Job is Part Time”! I would not have thought of it without you!

I’m so excited to announce that my story “Midnight At Red’s” has been accepted for publication in Oyster River Pages’s special issue, Delta. This is one of my earlier stories and one of my more important ones, or, at least, one of my stories that has a lot to say. Midnight At Red’s is about family, and poverty, and tragedy, and perseverance; it’s about the patterns in life that keep us going and the moments we can’t see coming or, if we can, can’t do anything to change. Like much of what I write it’s an escape narrative, and a story featuring people who have a lot of hope, even though they’ve never been given any reason to hope.   

Despite it being one of my favorites, it’s also been one of the most difficult to get published. I’ve very excited Oyster River Pages saw something here worth holding up and sharing.