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3 Days in Rome: on borrowing the lives of others for your fiction

by jeffrey | Sep 26, 2014 | Uncategorized

There is a running joke among authors. “Lookout, or I’ll write you into one of my stories! Ha ha!” I said it’s a joke. But for many authors it’s no joke. On October 19, 1998, The Author’s Guild held a panel discussion titled...

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Two new articles

It's been a busy couple of weeks. First, by popular demand, I've rolled out audio versions of some short stories. You can listen to them in the car or while exercising. They can be found at this link on my website. Second, some of my readers may not know, or may have...

Audio-short stories now available

Hello friends, It's been a while, hasn't it! You don't get much email from me. That's because I make it a policy not to become annoying with too frequent blog posts filling your inbox that you probably, if you are like me, must endure every day. I'm trying to be...

Calling all Catholics

Writing a modernized account of the biblical gospel comes with a new challenge I've never encountered in fiction writing. I continue to add material to my forthcoming book Blue Gospel, and I've recently added an account of the central figure's birth by a young girl...

PSA: Whitworth Writer’s Workshop

You may have heard that my Alma Mater, the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University, will come to an end this August. I and my fellow students cannot express our heartbreak at learning that forces within the conservative board and administration had decided to fire...

Book Cover Reveal

My latest novel is called BLUE GOSPEL. It could be available as early as this summer. But this week I got cover art finalized, so I am happy to show off the new book. BLUE GOSPEL is a 20th century update of the biblical gospel story from the perspective of the minor...