Category: On Writing
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Finishing Touches
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Tentatively titled, “I Truly Lament, Working Through the Holocaust,” my latest book of short stories is now undergoing my finishing touches. Using the suggestion of David Herrle who edited the manuscript, I am threading quotations from The i Tetralogy throughout, using each one before a story begins; the quotations sometimes…
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At This Time
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At this time I am preparing a bio for my book, “This Mobius Strip of Ifs,” for the publisher Chris O’Byrne of Red Willow Digital Press. When all this is submitted in addition to two summaries of the book for the back cover, I suppose, or for advertising as an…
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Red Willow Digital Press…And Will I Make It
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About a week ago Chris O’Byrne, publisher, emailed me to say he would be “honored” to publish the manuscript he had in hand, “This Mobius Strip of Ifs,” an anthology/compilation of essays written over three decades. “Honored” stood out for me as that is not exactly publisher lingo. When I…
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Why I Write — Cliche Question, I Feel
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“Sincerely, Max Weber,” was just published on line at www.servinghousejournal.com. It is the eighth short story I’ve had accepted in about eight months. Just yesterday Ascent Aspirations informed me that “Freud in Auschwitz” wil appear in its July issue. These stories are in my work in progress. “Working Through the…