Keeping you apprised

Last year as inexplicably as it began, my twenty-year’s writer’s block came to an end...

I hadn’t written anything, nor tried to get anything published, since completing my master degree in creative writing almost two decades earlier. Suddenly I was composing short stories (even the occasional poem)as if doing so were the most natural thing in the world. Here’s the big difference: I decided to forget everything I’d been taught in school and rely on my gut. That seems to have been the right way to go. I believe that some of the stuff I have been turning out this last year is pretty good. In fact, as good as or better than anything I’d attempted all those years ago.

Last Thursday, December 15, not quite a week after my 50th birthday, I received an email from the editors at Every Day Fiction saying that they were going to publish my story “Knock-Knock.” I’ve reread that email every day since then just to make sure there was no mistake.

I'll be keeping you apprised.