Meet Sunny: Character Profile & Excerpt

This is the second of six character profiles to introduce you to the group of friends in Beautiful & Terrible Things, about which award-winning author Ruth F. Stevens (no relation to me) says: โ€œThe six young men and women we meet in Beautiful and Terrible Things share a warm, Iโ€™ve-got-your-back camaraderie that reminded me of … Continue reading Meet Sunny: Character Profile & Excerpt

Queenie Lives: A Short Story Success

Short stories are a new frontier for me. They require special skills that novel-length works don't necessarily, and I am still working on my "craft" in this area. So, drumroll please, I am thrilled to announce that I have placed a short story in the online literary journal Smoky Quartz. The publication of Two Kinds … Continue reading Queenie Lives: A Short Story Success