December 19, 2023 Winning (still) Isn’t Everything “I Chat, Therefore I Am” made it to the Shortlist for the Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction (July–August 2023). From what I can…
June 29, 2023 Winning Isn’t Everything I don’t like to brag but it’s so hard to get others to do it for me. My short work of humorous fiction, “I…
February 24, 2023 A Hard Road with ChatGPT A good friend of mine wrote the book Hardscrabble Road, and it was published in 2018. It is a story of a young boy…
September 13, 2022 Why You Should Write Book Reviews If you don’t believe me—and I can see why you wouldn’t—read what George Weinstein has to say about it. How to Give Book Reviews—and…
October 21, 2021 A Masochist’s Guide to Self-Publishing Do you want to see your book in the window of every bookstore? Right between stacks of the latest Washington tell-all and yet another Stephen…
August 21, 2021 Productivity for Writers Appearances Are All that Matter Writing is a creative pursuit. Creative pursuits produce art for art’s sake. This sounds good but doesn’t pay the…
July 31, 2021 Abusing Social Media My new essay is in the August issue of the eQuill.Two months in a row so it must be a series. For writers and…
