So, to bring you up to date on the latest developments, the Bean Books are now a complete series. THE AFTER TIMES is the fifth and final book in it, and it's available in Kindle and paperback. It's a Gracie book, which is to say Grace is the main time traveler, and Bean appears as a guide (as does Amp). It's set in the early days of the pandemic, when we were all locked down, having to fabricate our own masks, and trying to get by. I loved writing THE AFTER TIMES and if you haven't read it yet, I'd love it if you did. I aimed it at young adults, but old adults seem to like it, too.
I'm playing a little with a new YA series right now, but since Christmas, I've been working on poetry a lot. Found a few new literary magazines, and I have work forthcoming in The MIdwest Quarterly this summer.
Meanwhile, 3rd Wednesday has been good to me; I've been both in their hard copy lit mag and got to be their Valentine with a poem they used online called "Love." Took some nerve to call a poem that, and I will accept your praise for my having had it. Wanna read it? Clicky-click!
I've also made some good friends at a nice publication called Halfway Down The Stairs. They're a good little ezine that does themed issues. My poem "Forsythia" just appeared in their March issue, which was themed Strange Bedfellows. They're reading for a Resistance themed issue now. If you write poetry, or short fiction or non-fiction, you should consider them. Here's "Forsythia."
My long-time favorite poetry feed, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, is back from hiatus, and they are featuring books on the weekend and a poem a day during the week. Editor Christine Klocek-Lim has an amazing eye, and being in there assures a poet of many readers. Here's their feature on my book Unforgetting, complete with a sample poem. I had a poem called "Owls" there not long before that--O, click and see!
So I haven't been blogging a lot--but I have been clicking the computer keys! Thanks for bearing with me during all these YA book/poetry book/ lit mag years. By the way, I AM collecting my current poems into what will be my fourth book of them. I'm shopping around various versions of it now, as well as a couple of chapbooks--but I seem to have zip luck with the short po-book form. We shall see.
See ya in the funny papers!