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As Halloween approaches, I’m chilled that my first ghost story, “Famine,” will be published in the CultureCult Magazine haunted house anthology HAUS. In “Famine,” a single mother of Irish descent, worried how she’ll feed her daughter in the aftermath of the 2008 economic collapse, is visited by the ghosts of two immigrants who lived in her Bronx apartment: one whose daughter died in 1847 during the Irish potato famine and another who came with her daughter in 1970 during The Troubles. Given how I strive to “nail the ending” in my writing, I was especially gratified when the editor wrote, “The last line brought me to tears.” Read more in SHORT STORIES.

Thanks to Booksweet in Ann Arbor for hosting a wonderful event on October 21, 2022 that featured four local authors, including me reading an excerpt from One Person’s Loss. Thanks as well to the audience for their warm reception and thoughtful questions, and to my fellow authors — vegan cookbook writer Vicki Brett-Gach, and poets Jihyun Yun and Frances Kai-Hwa Wang — for their wise and funny words. Read more about my book in NOVELS. Support independent bookstores in your own community. They’re an irreplaceable asset. Why writers write: “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn” (Anne Frank). Why writers read: “Reading brings us unknown friends”(Honoré de Balzac).

The one-a-day micro-fiction journal 50 Give or Take published another of my stories, “Accidentally,” words to ponder for those who ask, “What is she waiting for?” October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, first declared in 1989. Sign up to receive and submit your own ultra-short stories, free, at 5o Give or Take.

I’m happy to announce that 50 Give or Take has published another piece of my micro-fiction, “What’s in There?”. I dedicate this work to all older siblings, although I happen to be a younger sib.

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout is due out on September 20, 2022, the same day that my new book One Person’s Loss will be published. Strout’s previous novel, Oh, William! was released on October 19, 2021, the same day as my last book, The Great Stork Derby! A recent New York Times “What to Read” profile says that the 66-year-old Strout has hit her stride and is on a roll. Ditto the 75-year-old Ann S. Epstein!

My creative nonfiction essay “Riley and Lucille” will appear in the Winter 2022 issue of The Blue Mountain Review, published by The Southern Collective Experience. Written on the eve of surgery to save my right eye, “Riley and Lucille” ponders how my habit of naming ailing body parts is a tool to confront, communicate, laugh about, and adapt to the physical challenges of aging. I’ll post the link when the essay is published. Read more in MEMOIR.

An excerpt from the first chapter of my upcoming novel One Person’s Loss was published in the August 2022 issue of Washtenaw Jewish News, a free publication with a circulation of 4,000 households and a readership of 10,000 in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Thanks to WJN editor, Clare Kinberg. If you don’t get a print copy, read the WJN August issue online. The excerpt is on page 23. The story: It’s 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Nazi Germany for Brooklyn, admonished by their parents to have children to “save our people.” More about the book in NOVELS. Enjoy. Share. Read the whole book when it’s published in September 2022. Thanks!

I’m happy to announce that 50 Give or Take has published another piece of my micro-fiction. Read “Untitled Country Song” for a teary-eyed chuckle. Methinks that when I wrote this story, I was taking a nostalgia trip to my country-western dancing and bar-hopping days of the early 1980s. Anyone else a recovering Urban Cowboy fan?