My trip to the 2012 edition of the SC Writer’s Workshop conference on October 19 turned out to be a banner day—for winning 2nd place in the Novel–First Chapter category, I received as a prize a complimentary 30–page extended critique from the faculty member of my choice. Sweet! Besides Fellow Traveler, which is already in […]
With this piece of key art now (almost) in place, the time is here for Fellow Traveler! Once my revamped website goes live, there will be content aplenty that explains the origins, themes, and long gestation period of this very personal novel ‘of the grateful dead‘ that is being published on November 1, with pre-orders but already live and shipping […]
It’s a wonderful time in this writer’s life! My long-gestating novel Fellow Traveler is now on the fast track for an October 2012 release—the galleys are almost ready for my scrutiny, the cover is underway, and promotional events are being planned! There will be much more to say about this novel as its release nears, […]
The South Carolina Book Festival, which continues today, has been terribly good to my writing career. Yesterday, as I moderated two panels consisting of talented authors and engaged audiences, I felt very much at home.
Captain Mandrake, as he calls himself, strides into the room—a living space, warm, cluttered, three generations’ worth of portraiture and bric-a-brac, the only sound the crackling of a dying fire—and proceeds, as he is wont to do, to cause me no shortage of distress: And it is late, and the chill of January has settled over the world. I am reading; I am at a good part. It is my one escape, this.
But by now, I am used to the routine. I’m just especially tired tonight.
While it hasn’t been publicized yet by the South Carolina Arts Commission, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been selected for the second time as one of the 2010 winners of the SC Fiction Project. In 2008 my story “Howdy from Upstairs” was honored with this award, and here we are two years later with […]
Winner, Pearl Magazine Fiction Award, 2006 Benj struggles with the ten-by-ten white lawn-tent while Marcy goes through the beads, box by box: Disco Ball Throw Beads, Tumblin’ Dice Throw Beads, Heart Shaped Throw Beads, Oversize Mardi Gras Specials (they look like a necklace of round, green Christmas ornaments, and take up so much space that […]
