“Elephants Dance” has been published at Velvet Mafia. Adult content, but it turned out really well.
An yes, I know I need to get back to updating this! Read more »

It’s called “Winter Showers,” and it’s up on Ruthie’s Club, which is a pay site, but it is a gorgeous one. The artist who did the illustration to my story hit it spot on – the whole presentation is amazing. You can check out my Ruthie’s Club author page here,  but the story is [...] Read more »

Scribe and Quill accepted my story The Truth About Priscilla, which was originally published in a print magazine called Short Stuff for Grownups several years ago. Woot!
Right now I have 21 submissions out. Interesting statistics:
2 are at 100 days
2 are at 84 days
4 are at 82 days
1 is at 17 days (There were a lot [...] Read more »

by Tattoo Highway. It tied for second place in their “Picture Worth 500 Words” contest. Check out the story here, then come back and read my comments, and then pass on any feedback or comments you might have for me! Read more »

Part three of three.
Part One
Part Two
Ok, so we’ve covered what a copyright is, and what it means to sell rights to publish a work. Now we’ll talk about bad ways to loose your first rights.
One bad way we’ve covered is to post your work online for free without having a clear plan on how [...] Read more »

I was web-hopping around this last Friday, visiting links from my fellow High-Fivers, when I ended up on the blog StoryCrafters. I started digging into it, and soon read an article titled” I’m a Mazzikin, or is that mizzikin?” that started out with the phrase:
I hadn’t been over to the Zooty & Flapper site for [...] Read more »

This was one of those things that I came to a little bit late, but I want to make a quick note about it, and what it says about the writing community as a whole.
Patry Francis is the author of the thriller novel The Liar’s Diary, which was published in February 2007. It did well [...] Read more »