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I have a cover design! The non-fiction book that I’ve written with my co-author, Andrew Bienkowski, is due out in March, and the editors and design team have come up with a fantastic design! I couldn’t be happier.

My dear friend Paul Yoon just had his short story collection “Once the Shore” accepted for publication by none other than the elegant and classy Sarabande Books!!! Paul is such a wonderful, hard working writer, and such a genuinely nice guy. It seems like a marriage made in heaven–I couldn’t be more thrilled!

It’s the second anniversary of Big Lonesome’s publication, and Jim Ruland is blogging about the origins of his stories and other interesting tidbits. You can check it out here.

Today is my bestest best friend’s birthday. My BFF, as my teenaged daughters might say. But she really is. Paula is one of those friends you can go three months without talking to, and when you do reconnect, you just pick up where you left off as if not a day had passed. Paula and…

If you read one review for my friend Ron Currie’s just released book God is Dead, read this one. It’s an excellent, insightful review and the reviewer clearly “got” the book. Go Ron!

I have a newly published story up at the lovely e-zine Southern Hum!

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I am in St. Thomas for a coral reef conference that begins tomorrow. I love the Caribbean, but I’ve never been to any of the US Virgin Islands before. It’s like being in the Caribbean with none of the non-US hassles. US currency, US outlets…it’s such a lovely place and the people have been very…

Stephan Clark has an excellent new short-short up at LA Weekly. You can read it here. And you should.

A new ezine has launched, Ray’s Road Review and I am thrilled to have a story in the inaugural issue alongside Cliff Garstang, Sandra Novak and Carl Moore! (And poetry by Beebe Barksdale-Bruner.)