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My latest short story, How To Catch Fireflies, was released today in Mojo | Issue 10. This is an older story that sat, unread and unpublished, for a long time. I’m happy it found such a perfect home because I love it and I love the main character, Hannah. Like the story, itself, Hannah doesn’t give up.…

My newest short story, Rhonda’s Fitbit Field Notes is out today at Literary Mama. I hope you check it out and it makes you laugh a little!

  Let me pop this selfie, for a moment. Because I’m an American woman and today is a big voting day in North Carolina (and Ohio and Florida) Along with anywhere between 30-40% of the voting public, I am unaffiliated. I had a hard time deciding the best strategy behind my vote. In NC, unaffiliated…

I have a new tips article published over at The Review Review and it is a little rant-y. Rant-ish. Full of ire, you might say. But what writer doesn’t feel a little stymied from time to time? If you aren’t frustrated with the publishing process, you probably aren’t doing it right. Or, you are a genius.…

My newest short story “Take A Little Girl, Tap Her On The Shoulder” was released today in the Coup d’Etat Winter ’16 issue. You can read it here: http://bucoup.com/winter-16-issue/

My newest short story, “Take A Little Girl, Tap Her On The Shoulder” will be published in the Winter 2016 issue of Boston University’s newest literary magazine, Coup D’Etat. I’m thrilled this story has found such a lovely home. Copies will be available for purchase in January!

A few years ago, I ran a community 5K with a couple of my friends. I came in last out of all of us even though my one friend wasn’t feeling very well that day. He beat me by a lot. Later, he found out he had the swine flu. So, literally a dude with…

In Stardust, Neil Gaiman wrote, “There once was a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.” For writers, our truest heart’s desire is for someone to read our work and feel moved by it. We want them to connect with what we’ve written as if we were speaking for them in some way.…

Thank you to the Stoneslide Corrective for honoring my short story “Places Still On Fire” alongside so many other amazing stories in their 2015 Fancy Pants* Short Story Contest. *I added the “Fancy Pants” part. That isn’t what the contest is called. Although, it does have a nice ring to it.  http://stoneslidecorrective.com/2015/09/stoneslide-story-contest-2015-the-results/ The Stoneslide Corrective…

Have you checked out The Review Review? If you are a writer and you submit your work to literary journals The Review Review is a must-read. I have it bookmarked and when I need to feel energized about the eternal slog of submitting my work, I read one of their articles. Or, if I am…