My publishing year was great--the new book that came out from Big Table Publishing Company took up a lot of my time but the experience was wonderful and the final product looked great. Also my last two novels were made into audio-books in 2024. I appeared in three podcasts, and also had four individual pieces of work published.
Some Best of Stuff. First is the Best News Blooper video for your amusement. Underneath the video, not the best but the MOST VIEWED BLOG POSTS FROM 2024. And it's the top 11 as the 12/24/24 blog post about the piece "Mom and Pops" had a lot of hits this week
Only one singular published piece made the list, and that needed a 4 day very viewed post about Mom and Pops. Five on the list had to do with Book 19 (Almost Bluing for X-Tra Whiteness, released in Sep 2024) and Book 20 (The Shadows of the Seen, due out May 2025). The top three had none of those categorical posts. Trends? Who cares. Enjoy the list.
Grateful to Lo Galluccio, Poet Populist of Cambridge, who wrote a wonderful review. Also, grateful to Doug Holder, poet, and Poetry Czar for publishing it in The Somerville Times...
Why---and now that you were interested, what's it all about? (and the F-word)
So, it's creative non-fiction which means there is no story behind the story---it's just the story. I could point out the "creative" parts of this, but I won't. All I want to say about this piece is that I am grateful to people I've already spoken to about similar loss I am grateful to other writers who walked through the same events and wrote about them, giving me courage to write pieces such as this. I've thanked them. They know who they are.
Some say holidays is when you miss the people that are no longer in your life, but I think about my parents every day.
Doug Crandell, Mathew Olzmann, William Orem, Martin Ott, M.P. Carver, Phil Temples, Mag Gabbert, Robert Fleming, Danielle Legros George, Michael Keith, Mark Wish
Marianne Leone, Tiffany Davenport, Jennifer Friedman Lang, Ray Guidrox, Gary Grossman, Elizabeth McKim, Carla Panciera, Dr. Dannagal G. Young, Ellis Elliot, Enzo Silon Surin, Josh Barkan, Laura Zigman, Tom Laughlin
Suzanne Frischkorn, Kim Addonizio, Thomas McNeely, Jenna Le, Sarah Bridgins, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Lise Hanes, Dr. Paula Perez, Michael Mark, Maya Williams, Hannah Sward, Caitlin Avery, Carla Swartz, Stacy TenHouton, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Morgan Baker
Jonathan Papernick, A.K. Small, Aaron Tillman, David Rockland, Kimberly Ann Priest, Sain Griffiths, Harris Gardner, Lisa Taylor, Michael Keith, Jim Shepard, Zach VandeZande, Rusty Barnes, Daniel Nester. Kurk Lovelace (reading from Annemarie O'Connell's book), and Nina Shope
Sara Lippmann, Robin McLean, Gregory Orr, Rich Murphy, Diane Suess, Ron Tanner, Aleathea Drehmer, Christina Adams, Sharon Applegate Greenwald, Lucas Scheelk,
Joseph Milosch, Barbara Legere, Ellene Glenn Moore, Vincent Cellucci and Chris Shipman
