WHAT'S NEW

In October I will be traveling to New York to meet up with my friends for the two-day 39-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. For details, check out my Walker's Page here. What else have I been up to? Here's some tidbits to catch you up:

• The move back up to Walnut Creeek in December went fairly smoothly, and after a couple of months I landed a job as a Copy Editor/Copywriter and Larry is consulting to various companies while he looks to start his own. A "real" full-time job with benefits. I haven't had one of those for seven years! It's taken some adjustment, but now that I'm feeling more comfortable and able to use my creativity in new ways, it's actually sparked, rather than squelched, my energy for writing. I'm working on a new story with a years'-past goal of cranking 'em out each month and getting more published. And that novel? It's still there, waiting for the next big burst of inspiration..

• Carnifex Press's When the World Runs Thin science fiction anthology includes my story, "Synlig Usynlig," set in Oslo in the not-so-distant future. Order it here on Amazon.com.

• I received my contributor's copy of the Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. I also wrote an entry for the Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era. Both articles are for Greenwood Press and their amazing collection of topical encyclopedias. This all came about because of two previous entries I wrote for their Encyclopedia of African American Literature.

• Sam's Dot Publishing's science fiction anthology Ecotastrophe includes my story, "Undiscovered Horizons." Best of all, my story is one of the blurbs on the back cover! You can order copies here.

• The Thou Shalt Not anthology by Dark Cloud Press includes my story "The Good Life," which explores what happens when you covet your neighbors' lives. You can order your copy here or on Amazon here.

• The good news is I had two stories published as part of the Scary Stories series! Book 1 includes my story "Crawlspace," and Book 2 includes my story "Fear of the Darkness." The bad news is that as of February 2006 the books are out of print..
  Read excerpts here.

• The 2005 premiere issue of Silent Voices includes my story and short story contest winner, "Nameless." You can buy a copy of Silent Voices through their web site or here on Amazon. Read an excerpt from my story here.