My Story “Ditz Alert” was selected by Michael Solender for publication in his chapbook “Dog Days of Summer 2010!”  100 submissions, 80 stories selected.  Each story has exactly 101 words and includes the words “summer” and “heat.”

The grand prize winner of the contest was Sam Adamson and Michael is featuring an interview with the winner [...]

Oh…right…but you guys already know me.  But many of you know me as “Double Latte Mama” on Twitter or from my other blog “Double Latte Mama’s Blog” or from my fan page “Double Latte Mama” over on Facebook … Well, little by little that is all changing…

I’ve been noodling around the idea of switching away [...]

I have been doubly-honored … I have received the Fabulous Flash Award AND I have received it from one of my favorite writers – Mark Kerstetter! He’s written a most-eloquent post (that left me blushing) about why he bestowed the award upon me.  I enjoy Mark’s stories so much and to top things off, [...]

I’m dipping my toe into the E-book waters and have explored various options.  I thought I’d do a quick post and let you know what i’ve discovered and Jim Wisneski was kind enough to send me some information as well.  Hopefully some of you will have some feedback and insight for me and let me [...]

I’m floating this idea in the twitterverse/facebookverse/blogoverse (are those really words?) to see if anybody would be interested in participating in a monthly blog carnival pulling together writers who do interviews with local authors and feature them on their blog as part of the carnival.  I’m not sure how many parameters there would be around [...]

Jon Strother (@jmstro on Twitter) is the creator of the FridayFlash event and is in the process of pulling together an anthology of the “best of” FridayFlash stories of 2009.  Each author can submit up to three stories for consideration and stories will be chosen by a panel of judges.  If you want to read [...]

I won’t bend your ear (or eyes?!) for long, I just wanted to let you know that I won NaNoWriMo with a total of 50,409 words.  Along the way, I kept thinking of deep insightful thoughts that i would share with you in my recap and debrief blog post.  Now I’ve forgotten all of them [...]

I’ll be brief because I have another 2600 words to do today, but I wanted to let you know that I am still plugging away.  I have broken the 20,000 word mark which really feels good.  I am in the middle of a sort of lull in the action and hopefully later today or maybe [...]

First I was. Then I wasn’t. Then I was, but didn’t expect to win. And now? As of this moment, I am doing Nanowrimo and I am doing it to WIN! Current wordcount = 13,732. I am just barely ahead of pace to make 50,000 in 30 days (pace [...]

I was recently in the Barnes & Noble here in Hoboken looking for a book and I asked one of the employees whether they had a section of books from local authors. She looked at me blankly and said, “No, I don’t think so.”

Later in my browsing, I saw another employee who looked as [...]