Seattle

Pretty dang cold and rainy here in Seattle…good place to finish up a noir detective novel, Black Velvet Rose.

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Still Life with Iguana

My novella, “The Journalist and the Moon,” to be re-titled “Still Life with Iguana,” won the Iron Horse Literary Review Single Author Competition for a Novella, judged by Bill Roorbach. On their blog here. What is it with me and novellas? My first book, The Naughty Yard, was a novella (available now in ebook form from Obelisk Library). Most of my novels are short (under 200 pages) but they are getting longer.

Working on revisions of the novella now, a few days late, the traveling and being a sudden single father gets in the way. “Still Life with Iguana” will be published in two months alone as issue 15.6 of Iron Horse Literary Review.

My Daughter in France

My daughter R. Michelle is enjoying the European life: metro rides, cool weather, culture, French language, even French food!

A View from Paris

The Yokazuna of Tokoyo

My daughter and I will be calling Japan home for the next two years.

Wild Changes

Wild changes in the old life. I now have custody of my child, extracted her from a horrible future in Tijuana. We are hanging out in Portland for a while and then flying to France for 3 weeks, then will come back and settle into a new life in Los Angeles.

Poem about Rosina Talamantes…

Had come across some poems online on old ex- using a 14 line sonnet format, which inspired me to write this poem now on Eyeshot, part of a collection titled The Mystic Writing Pad, with others in it soon showing up in Hobart, Gargoyle, New Orleans Review, Georgetown Review, etc…dig the pic of William T. Vollmann, for ref. to Fathers and Crows in the text…

The Chronotope/Poison from a Dead Sun Print Edition – Wildside Double #32

Poison from a Dead Sun Limited Time

For a limited time, Poison from a Dead Sun is available as a “pay what you want” ebook at Smashwords…it will go down when the Borgo/Wildside edition comes out.