Monthly Archives: November 2014

Are You Self Published?

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IMG_4053“Tell people you are a writer.” My publisher gave me this advice, so did my wife and about a hundred of my closest friends. That statement is the foundation of a platform (don’t you hate that word). Things should move on logically from there.

Strangers are supposed to ask, “What are your your books about?” So I’m ready with an ultra short synopsis or two. One thing leads to another and pretty soon they’re asking for my cards looking for my Amazon Author Page on their smart phones and promising to tell all their friends, who happen to be intensely interested in books exactly like mine. Continue reading →

“I 35” was a lot rougher road than I expected

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I wrote a little story entitled, “I 35” mostly in my head on my way to visit my sister in law in Bisbee, Arizona. By the time I got there I had the plot worked out, a couple of catchy lines and knew all there was to know about the characters. It was pretty easy. The story actually happened almost like I planned to tell it in the living room of my 1950’s childhood home. Continue reading →

“Manning Up”

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“Manning Up” was published in Chupa Cabra House’s Small Town Futures in October, 2014.

“Manning Up” Opening paragraphs:

Before the trouble started there were lots of different bars in Oklahoma City—Indian bars, gay bars, hillbilly bars. Not anymore. Since the power grid went down, and the New Flu came to town, everybody gets drunk together. Lesbians like me stand next to red necks in dark rooms lit by kerosene lamps and tell the barkeep, “Do it again.” Not exactly social drinking.

The good old boys trade jokes about bulldykes and farmer’s daughters. They bump into me and say, “Excuse me buddy.”

When I come out of the restroom somebody shouts, “Hey mister, you went in the wrong one.” Everybody laughs except for me and my girlfriend Mona. Continue reading →