ICYMI, May is Short Story Month. And it’s a clickty-click day, with links below to three ways you can discover your next big read. 1. Scroll through Book Riot’s list of 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections, for blurbs about books by established and new authors. 2. Browse Elizabeth Day’s list on The Guardian of 10 …
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May is Short Story Month!
CITY OF WEIRD, Stories to Evoke & Entertain
“I’ve been having this dream lately. In this dream, I’m traipsing through the aisles of that big bookstore in Portland, Oregon.” ~ from “Aromageddon” by Jason Squamata in City of Weird I have never been to Portland. But City of Weird, with its “30 Otherwordly Portland Tales,” offers a view of the Oregon metropolis (and its …
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Tapping the New Year with a Review, Advice, and a Rally Cry
The Review Right at the end of 2014, my first freelance book review went live (you can read my thoughts on MEMOIRS OF A MUSE at Fig Tree Books here). Writing book reviews is a challenge for me, so it felt great to see this one reach publication. The key to such success–in this project and …
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