REASON #2: WHY I SELF-PUBLISHED
I was the student that teachers dreamed about in school. My work was complete, correct, and on time. I was not prone to disruption, and I mastered an Attentive Face even though my skewed hearing and...
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I want to write that I bounced back from this the very next day with a can-do attitude! For every rejection I got, I sent out two more queries!! Carpe damn diem!!! I want to write that I did not take...
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One of my least favorite classes in high school was chemistry with Mr. Ca-Ca. In addition to his other problems, he was tremendously disorganized. Completed homework assignments vanished into the black...
View ArticleREASON #5: WHY I SELF-PUBLISHED
I washed up on the shore of self-publishing in exhaustion and misery. There were never any guarantees that I would be accepted into the insular world of traditional publishing. Most writers aren’t. But...
View ArticleTHE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF PEEHEAD THE LAMB
Some lambs get a rough start to life, for one reason or another. Billy Madison’s troubles are due purely to lack of intelligence. Her mother The Cheat has plenty of milk and a mild temperament, the...
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Toys is free on Kindle for a limited time starting Saturday. Toys was a terrible short story. Sometimes in writing, you do it wrong. You tell a story from the wrong perspective or from the point of...
View ArticleWhen to Walk Away
It was a February night long ago when I gave up. The straw that broke the camel’s back was no more than a straw, a brother’s birthday party at a restaurant. He had brought his girlfriend along. The...
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