Coming, May 14, 2025 and you can take a deep dive

 

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Coming, May 14, 2025 and you can take a deep dive!

 

        I'm looking forward to the release of my new novel. It's coming out in May, and review copies and ARCs will be out any time now. 

On the Pierian Springs site, there is a podcast which is a deep dive into the book-its characters and some of their motivations.

Give it a listen if you are interested, but for those who like to read and discover on their own, there are spoilers galore, so be dutifully warned.

A 2-fer and I'm happy to have flash fiction "Labor Day at the Border Café" published in 10 X 10

      Labor Day at the Border Café a flash fiction went live today on 10 X 10 Flash, Issue 12. 

The journal is Zvi Sesling's marvelous creation and is in the link below.

click here for 10 X 10 Issue 12

The Story Behind the Story:

    One of the first Tex-Mex Restaurants in my area  was The Border Café in Harvard Square (The El  Phoenix Room was the other. I could never get past the redundant "The El"). Boy, years back, would I go there and pre-game before any Cambridge event. 

That one closed in 2020, but I would drive to the other Burlington to enjoy their food, but no longer the Margaritas. Interesting thing happened there the last time I went, and I've not been back since. You can read about it in this issue of  10 X 10 Flash Fiction, Issue 12. The piece is personal and partially true.. 

Actually, I sat in the booth right here---inside. After all, it was raining. 

Thrilled to have a new poem in Live Nude Poems

 I don't submit work all that often anymore, but I always want to submit to Heather Sullivan and Rusty Barnes who put out Live Nude Poems. 

The Story Behind the Story (in this case the poem, HERE Into The Silent Sea)

If you are sunk in a sea so silent who are you left hanging with? There are all kinds of deep sea critters, perhaps too ugly to cuddle up to. When the narrator says to them, looking up from the ocean, "nobody likes you," he could be referring to himself---hence, some "double-meaning love" within the words. You are just like them, and just like an abandoned sunken ship.  The other double-meaning  found within is that the moon features fields of basaltic lava referred to as seas, because early astronomers mistakenly thought they contained water. 

Also "metaphor love" about the end of a friendship, 

and very often the silence accompanying that. 

Imagine habitating with the likes of...

photo by Lisa Haley

 

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LIVE NUDE POEMS

Like the title says. 

lNP is a simple blog journal no frills (see masthead above) except the editors who know a thing are two about a thing or two. Funny thing about the sub-title you know it came from people asking, "What's Live NudePoems?" Well, it's like the title say, so, take a hike, son.  

If you dive into their submissions statement, you'll find this (so yahoo!):

In trying to sum up what our aesthetic at Live Nude Poems will be, we are drawn to the idea and function of poetry.  In our opinion, we’ve always believed that poetry must serve a purpose – to enlighten, to explain and by doing so, bring a greater understanding of self.  We have a job to do as poets, even if only to better know our own humanity.  We're certainly not here to argue what art is or why we write.  We write because we have to, and the work is unique to each of us.  Knowing that, we would like to showcase poetry that breathes and presents moments in time, work that helps us understand you, tells a story, changes the reader--if only for a second.

     

My Appearance on Eternally Amy podcast....My LIFE....plus links to 2023 podcasts.

                                                                                                                                                                                                 Host Amy Liz Harrison is the mother of eight, a Gen Xer, Recovery Champ, and Best Selling Author hosted me his spring -- I talk about....well, read about it below on Amy's Instagram teaser. As an interviewer, she is GREAT!

Please, listen to the entire podcast on where

I invent the phrase "When you're a piece of dogshit, you're already on the ground" and "If my Higher Power is Meatloaf, I don't want to force that on a vegan."

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LINKS TO ALL 2023 PODCASTS

1) Second Appearance on The Art of Being Dar  (click to watch/listen)

2) Billy Dees Podcast: Perfect Media Productions (click to watch/ listen)

3) This Podcast will change your Life with Ben Tanzer (click to listen)

4) W.W.A.A. podcast with Kristy Mickelsen (click to listen)

5) Anna David's Podcast, On Good Authority (click to listen) 

10 BY 10, Ten Flash Fictions by Ten Writers publishes my piece, "Dig 'Em" in their Anniversary Issue

   A year ago, Zvi Sesling selected ten of his favorite flash fiction authors to be a part of his new magazine 10 BY 10. One year later the same group (minus 1.....let's see 10 X 10 -1 = 99. Math.). What I mean is 9 of the original ten are back for the anniversary, and that couldn't be more cool. 

YOU CAN READ TODAY'S ISSUE

RIGHT HERE

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Now the story behind the story, Dig 'Em: 

     In a time without streaming services there was nothing more exciting than Saturday morning cartoons. They would start early in the morning, and run until about 1 PM when Shazam! would be scheduled. It was the closest to binge watching there was back then.  With that demographic you can imagine the commercials, which were for sugary cereals, one of them being Sugar Smacks (same as Honey Smacks). 

     When I heard Larry Moran died, I got a little obsessed about the voice actor who lent himself to Dig 'Em the frog, a  mascot who was the main box character and cereal TV commercial star. Actually there were five actors who shared Dig 'Em throughout history, but it was in 2017 when Larry Moran passed, and that's where my thought process began. 

The story features Todd, who also had Dig 'Em etched into his memory. 

                                       YOU CAN READ THE STORY HERE

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Award Winning, #1 Best Selling Author, Anna David, has me on her podcast, On Good Authority. The Write Lauch writing group, now open for new members

"I got this email. I was on your mailing list to begin with. And I get this email during the pandemic. And I'm kind of like, well, you know, what do I do during that time? Stare at the wall or work on some writing and I was like I'm in. And I was introduced to some amazing people that, you know, I'm still in contact with today, amazing people, amazing connections. And, you know, three years later, we're still meeting daily."

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST AND FIND OUT ABOUT or read the transcript:

I run Anna David's Write Launch Writers Group, which meets five times a week on Zoom! Listen all about it, and we are open for new members twice a year---AND RIGHT NOW!! 

My poem, Dog Years, appears in Somerville Times newspaper today

 

Thanks to Doug Holder, who published my very first, in 2002. It's May 31, 2023 and we are still kicking. In this one, I compare an old (active, healthy) dog, to the decline of the physical human condition.