Sunday, October 30, 2016

A Teacher First and other writing gigs

My new novel, A Teacher First, is now available on Amazon.com in print and as a Kindle edition. I realize that for many people the latest is always the greatest, but I really do believe that this is the best story I've written. Check it out and let me know if you agree.

I've been doing a lot of guest blogging lately. In September I had work published by Grown and Flown, Ripped Jeans and Bifocals, and Writers Weekly, as well as having one of my short stories appear in Page & Spine. I haven't written many short stories lately so I was happy to get one of the few I've written published. I have ideas for a couple others which I hope to write in the next month or so.

Because I've been having success in recent months with columns and essays, I'd like to focus more on this sort of thing. The problem is finding markets for my work. I'm sure I'll figure it all out, but it would be nice to get a regular gig writing for a couple of publications. Until then, though, I trudge on.

I'm off now to write another column. I've got Bruce Springsteen's The River on the turntable and a candle burning, so the creative juices are ready to flow (I hope). Hopefully it won't be another two months before my next blog post.