13 Lives of Alice, Watership Sideways

I bring good news and bad news. If you want to own a copy of "13 Lives of Alice", you'll need to act fast. Black Hare Press plans to delist it (make it unavailable) after December 31, 2023. It includes 13 stories about the contemporary adventures of a grown-up version of Alice (of Wonderland fame). My contribution, "Watership Sideways" is chapter 7.

The silver lining is that a selection of these individual stories (or perhaps all) will be reissued by BHP during 2024 as "short reads", available for individual purchase. I have signed a contract this week agreeing to this repackaging. I hope more people are encouraged to read the story this way.

Until 2023 ends, you should be able to use this link to buy your own copy of marvelous this book: (https://books2read.com/13-lives-of-alice)

Poetica #15: "With Only Rocks for Tools"

Poetica # 15 is now available here! (https://www.clarendonhousebooks.com/anthologies)

My poem, "With Only Rocks for Tools" is in this volume, alongside the poems of many of my writer friends.

After I had submitted this poem, I realized it should have been named "Only Rocks for Tools". The word "With" is superfluous, but, although in every subsequent mention of the poem, either in emails or on the "Inner Circle Writers' Group" Facebook page, I used the shorter title, I never outright instructed (begged) the editor to change it before it was published. Oh, well.

I hope you get to read the poem and enjoy it.