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Finishing What You Started

Last month, fate and a friend gave me an ultimatum: finish my novel, Beautiful Losers, or lose the opportunity to see it published by a prestigious press. As much as I say I don’t care about being published, the confrontation was a reality check. Was I going grab opportunity by the balls and get this Continue Reading

Dishing It Out and Sucking It Up: Critique and Reviews

There is a general perception that our genre is an embattled one, unfairly ostracized and intellectually snubbed for the explicitness of what we write and the sexual arousal that our texts seek to invoke in the reader. But it is not entirely fair to lay the cause for all the derision layered upon the genre Continue Reading

Contemporary Fiction Writing in a Cultural Vacuum

As my novel sits with its publisher, being checked and line-edited, several interesting issues have come up, which have brought home exactly how badly fear of lawsuits have eroded our ability to place our fictions within realistic cultural landscapes. My novel is called Beautiful Losers.  This is the title of a number of novels, including Continue Reading