Category: blog

September 15, 2015

Technical Difficulties

Please accept my apologies, but I’m having technical difficulties on the blog. Suddenly, all of my posts have turned into “excerpts” and the “Read…
August 3, 2015

Virginia Writers’ Club Symposium 2015

On Saturday, August 1, I had the pleasure of being a presenter at the annual symposium of the Virginia Writers’ Club. This is the…
July 23, 2015

Heifetz International Music Institute

I live in Staunton, Virginia, which was already a pretty great place before the Heifetz International Music Institute landed here (in large part because…
July 17, 2015

My books

July 16, 2015

Emerging Author Finalist, Indiana Authors Award

I’m thrilled and honored to share with you that I have been selected by The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation as an Emerging Author finalist for…
June 25, 2015

“Shut up!” he explained.

Invariably in a fiction workshop the subject of dialogue tags will come up. A dialogue tag is the bit that’s slapped onto the end…
May 22, 2015

Residency at Rivendell Writers’ Colony

Part of me would like to keep this place a secret, but I have a lot of writer friends who would love Rivendell Writers’…
May 22, 2015

Everywhere Stories Named International Book Award Finalist

I am very pleased to say that Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet has been named a finalist for the International Book Award…
April 24, 2015

Prime Number Magazine Issue #71

We published the latest issue of Prime Number Magazine this week. Issue #71 includes fiction by Kevin Winchester and Jeffery Hess, an essay by…
April 15, 2015

AWP — Press 53 Booth

This year at AWP, instead of overwhelming myself with panels, I went to only one each day (because, frankly, I didn’t see a lot…