In an old writing group we had an ongoing joke you never "arrived" until you wrote an Elvis story. Many members did, I did not. The same sort of thing might be said of westerns, but with Doc Holliday. This consumptive blue-eyed killer continues to generate stories, ideas, and unverifiable legends. I got to thinking. …
Woo! My New Story “Talitha Koum” to be Published by Frontier Tales in June
My new Haxan story "Talitha Koum" is scheduled to be published by Frontier Tales in June of this year. I am looking forward to this. It's a "Magra" story more than anything else, and though written from Marwood's perspective, it's mostly about her. We learn more about her early life and especially her mother, Black …
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DFW Writers’ Workshop
Last night I checked out the DFW Writers' Workshop. It's in Euless so this place isn't around the corner from me. They host the DFW Conference every year which is a pretty big writers' conference in the southwest. Dues aren't too bad for the workshop, $100 a year, and they meet four times a month. …
Finally Wrote Something New!
This weekend I wrote a book review and sent it off to an online magazine for approval. It was the first new thing I have written since last November. I've worked on edits and rewrites for Haxan and Quaternity at the request of CZP and that went pretty well. So it's not like I have …
Hoover's Corner 