Glasses, hair, and me. Been a while since I've been a-bloggin!

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!