My new short story collection, KIND EYES, is available today on amazon.com. If you buy it today (in print or for Kindle), maybe we can make it a best-seller. (In fiction–for the day, anyway. How to lie with statistics!) For each copy bought this week, I will donate $1 to save Steel Beam in honor of […]
Happy to announce that my story, “A Measurable Distance,” about a father struggling to let his son follow his dream, was a finalist in the Hemingway Shorts competition sponsored by the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. It appears in Hemingway Shorts, Volume 5, available now on amazon.com.
Just a reminder that March 1 is the deadline to apply for the The Chicago Literary Club $1000 prize and fellowship. This three year fellowship is for a serious writer (nonfiction or fiction). The Club meets weekly for dinner, conversation, and the presentation of an original essay by a member. The Fellowship consists of free […]
The Producers of the indie film based on One for the Ark have created a Facebook page, https://m.facebook.com/One-for-the-Ark-Movie-115958843127021/. Please visit for news as the movie develops. Soon, I’ll be posting a prize-winning story excerpted from the book called “When Walls Weep.”
Happy to announce that my story, “The Visionary,” was selected for publication in Hemingway Shorts, Vol. 4, in a national contest sponsored by the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. It is my third story about Alzheimers disease to be published. All in tribute to my mom, Mary Jo Hutchings, an avid reader, librarian and visionary.
Just found out that my unpublished novel, FREE LOVE, was a finalist for The Tuscarora Award for Historical Fiction from Hidden River Arts. This is my only historical novel, and deals with the status of women in the 1870’s, spiritualism and spirit photography.
Happy to announce that the first chapter of my unpublished novel, Markers, was named “Honorable Mention” in the Chicago Writer Association First Chapter contest. Always happy to have my work recognized.
My story, “Bubba” was just published in the online journal, r.k.v.r.y. You can read it here: http://rkvryquarterly.com/
Happy to report that ONE FOR THE ARK was named a finalist in the International Book Awards for General Fiction, sponsored by the American Book Fest. I enter contests in hopes that an agent/major publisher will notice, and to be able to offer this kind of “endorsement” to my indie-published works. I lose more than […]
Some time ago I discovered this YouTube concert and was enchanted by the music of a typewriter (which can never be replaced by a computer keyboard), but forgot to post it. Happy spring! And happy typing!