I just finished a major revision of one of my novels and restarted my literary agent search, so I thought I’d take a moment to list and encapsulate the five “completed” novels I’ve finished over the years, never mind the first novel I wrote in college that shall never see the light of day, or the three half novels I started but have yet to finish. Hopefully one or all of these will find themselves on a bookshelf near you someday!
Read moreNew Poetry in Riverbabble #25
My poem "Burning in the Freeze" now appears in Riverbabble #25. The poem was written during my final month in Beacon, NY, about a walk home from the local pub during the still of a chilly winter night. There are a number of other poets and writers worth checking out in this issue, including Bill Gainer, John Swain, Felice Aull, John Oliver Simon, and others. Thanks for taking a look!
Writing a Novel Is Like Being In Love
The last few months have been a beehive of activity, both good and bad, but one thing has seen me through all of these terrible and uplifting events — a new novel I’m writing, which has a very temporary working title "The Beacon Novel."
It tells the interconnected stories of five or six people in Beacon, a small city in the Hudson Valley Region of New York, just a short train ride outside of New York City...
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