Finalist and Honorable Mention, "MAYBE" The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2018
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What if you had an app on your smartphone that showed you the date and time of death of anyone photographed by you? Find out about it in my latest short fiction, "Dead App" published in the latest edition of Raven magazine. Issue 4, page 12.
My short story, "The Culmination of Their Journey" won second place in the Sea Island Spirit Short Story contest. It was published in the Lowcountry Weekly Magazine in South Carolina. Click on the story above to read it.
Thanks to the Pen Women of Cape Canaveral for listening to my presentation on the Making and Marketing of the Short Story. Also, thank you for the wonderful lunch.
My short story, The Last Wave, is a semi-finalist in the Writer Magazine's 2020 Fall Short Story Contest. (It ended up in the top 5)
Check out for free the first three episodes of my Kindle Vella Western Novella. Pronghorn Mesa Vengeance https://tinyurl.com/34symyn8
My short story, "Back to Alcatraz" was longlisted in the Margery Allingham Short Story Competition.
My manuscript "She Went Missing" is a finalist in the Ohio Writers Great Novel Contest 2020. Great Novel Contest 2020.
I recently sold my story, "The Case of the Burnt Wires" to Mystery Weekly Magazine. Available now on Amazon.
I'll be giving a presentation on my book, NISEI, February 17th at 1pm at One Senior Place in Viera, Florida.
My short story "Of Life and Death and Life" won the Novus Annos Short Story Award and will be adapted into a short film
My short story "Invisible," took second place in the 2018 Larry Brown Short Story Award competition.https://tinyurl.com/y8t7shua
I'll have my books set up at The Dirty Oar Brewing Company in Cocoa Village (see map) from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday, October 6th. Come in and buy a book and I'll buy you a beer.
See my short story, "In Nobody We Trust" in the back of best-selling British author, Charles Cummings spy novel, A Divided Spy. Paperback or Kindle.
John Dufresne placed an exercise I wrote on his website. I wrote it at one of his lectures on his new book "FLASH" and he asked if he could use it. The exercise was called- "Why I'm Afraid of __________"
My short story, "The Case of the Burnt Wires" didn't make the Margery Allingham short list but was accepted for publication in an upcoming edition of the Mystery Weekly Magazine
My short story, IN NOBODY WE TRUST, won the St. Martin's Press "Who Can You Trust Contest" It will be published in the St. Martin's Press Book, A DIVIDED SPY by Charles Cumming in the paperback and eBook editions only, in Feb.
They'll publish the story in the back of the book.
Some prize money too: $250. Pam get's 10% for typing it up.
I will be giving a presentation on "Story versus Style" at the Cocoa Beach Library on Wednesday, May 13 at 2 pm. Ya'll come. All proceeds from sales of my book, Prodigious Savant, go to the "Friends of the Library." http://tinyurl.com/nwd7krk
Listen to my interview on the Red River Radio-No Limits show with questions from Barbara Hodges about me and my novel, Prodigious Savant. My interview is in the last half hour. http://tinyurl.com/k768fq4.
Prodigious Savant is now available on Amazon Kindle.