Got a nice, albeit brief, slot on the local Good Morning show this week. Handling press appearances is second nature at this point—I have been on both sides of the equation, as interviewer and interviewee—but sitting in front of the lights with Dixiana and Down in Dixiana propped on their little bookstands made me realize that […]
As Dixiana’s “ebook episodes” roll out on the Kindle platform, this charming love letter from the spring of 2015 felt worth a re-post.
While excitement over the Dixiana ebook cover reveal continues to ripple throughout the known universe, let’s not forget 2018’s entry in the Edgewater County mythos, Dogs of Parsons Hollow. To that end, I’ve got a few events scheduled:
Time again for an infrequent, overdue, full-meal report about this novelist’s various unpublished manuscripts.
Take note, Columbia, SC-area writers: still plenty of time to sign up for my intensive, six-week creative writing workshop offered through the Midlands Technical College Corporate and Continuing Ed Program. Having only this week concluded a(nother) successful beginner workshop, your faithful writing coach remains pumped-up to keep assisting writers in the achievement of their dreams.
Next week I’ll be a featured participant in Indie Author Week at Columbia’s national award-winning Richland Library!
In mid-2016, noted graphic novelist and self-professed warlock Alan Moore released his second literary novel, Jerusalem, and it’s a doozy. A 600,000 word Joycean meditation on the lifeblood and history of a single neighborhood in Northampton, UK, the author’s hometown and lifelong residence, this book is an epic journey that seems to go everywhere and yet nowhere.
Pleased to report that a recent story, “Eye of the Vandal,” was chosen as the first-listed Honorable Mention in the 2017 Short Story America competition. Not sure if it will make it into the anthology, but it’s still a fine honor. Thanks, Short Story America!
After a terrific inaugural showing in 2016, South Carolina’s new book festival Deckle Edge returns February 24-26 in downtown Columbia!
When I sat down in 2012 to create the protagonist of Let the Glory Pass Away, a middle-aged, blocked South Carolina novelist named Cort Beauchamp, I knew I wanted him to seem like a character out of time.
