Newsletter: September 2025 Edition
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Welcome to the September 2025 edition of my newsletter. It’s been a few months since I’ve sent out a newsletter, but it’s not for lack of interest. I had an eventful summer and much of it was recovering from a bout with covid, then tending to my wife as she recovered from a serious injury. I was glad to care for my wife, but covid can go straight to hell (seriously, get vaccinated). Anyway, I wrote a lot of fiction this summer and my wife has been editing a novel manuscript that I finished back in May. I wrote a new novel manuscript later in the summer and I completed the first draft of it yesterday! I’m hoping to send both of these to my literary agent later this year, so he can hopefully find publishing homes for both of them.
A surprising thing that happened this past August was learning that my novel The Codger and the Sparrow won the Discovery Prize for Fiction in the Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards. I was shocked when they notified me, to say the least. Winning an award from a group of writers is a BIG honor for me. According to the Writers’ League of Texas, “the WLT introduced the Discovery Prize to recognize one outstanding book in each category published by independent presses, university presses, and/or self-published authors… for its fresh voice, inventive story, or some other element that made it stand out.” I’d like to thank the WLT for this prestigious award. I’m honored!
