So happy to announce that my short story, Herbert Saffir, Measurer of Hurricanes,” has been published in the current issue of Ars Medica, a Canadian arts-and-healing journal. You can read it online here. It is personally meaningful to me since my mother, Mary Jo Hutchings, suffered from Alzheimers. This is the second story of mine about the...Read More
I hope you can follow this link to hear about why you should vote for my friend, Jamie Shapiro, for judge in Cook County. Jamie is a fellow lawyer, and a writer, who entertained The Chicago Literary Club last night with his paper, “Wedding at the Ashram.” Also at last night’s meeting of The Club,...Read More
My short story, “Starry Night” was a finalist for the William Wisdom,William Faulkner Prize for a short story. “Starry Night ” started out as a NaNoWriMo project a few years ago under the title, “The God of All Grace”, and was “downsized” to a longish short story.Read More
Happy to report that my new novel, HARMONY”S PEACE & JOY, was named a finalist for the William Wisdom/William Faulkner Prize for an Unpublished Novel. Didn’t quite make the short list, but still nice to have this encouragement for a manuscript which I’m been working on for a couple of...Read More
Congratulations to David Robson of Robson Design and Susie Isaacs of publisher Ampersand, Inc., on Third Place in the Colorado Independent Press Association’s EVVY Awards for Best Cover. One for the Ark was the only fiction cover to place in this category in this twenty-five year old contest. David also designed the cover of Saluting...Read More
So happy to announce that ONE FOR THE ARK won the BRONZE in the Foreword Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards. I am grateful to my publisher, Susie Isaacs of Ampersand, Inc., designer David Robson of Robson Design, editor David Bloom, writing teacher Fred Shafer, proofreader Marian...Read More
ONE FOR THE ARK will be on display at the American Library Association’s Annual Meeting in Chicago this weekend, at the exhibit by Foreword Reviews. OFTA is a finalist for the Book of the Year in Fiction. Winner to be announced on the 24th at ALA. Wish me luck!Read More
Just wanted to share “Five Reasons” on why Chicago is a great place for writers. I’d add a 6th reason: we have a great pro bono organization called Lawyers for the Creative Arts, which provides free guidance and legal help to emerging authors on their rights and responsibilities. ...Read More
