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Microfiction I've added a new section to the site for microfiction. Also known as very ...
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Northwest Alumni feature The fall issue of Northwest, the alumni magazine of my alma mater Northwest Missouri ...
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Warmed and Bound on Kindle The Kindle Edition of the year's hottest collection, Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology ...
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Booked interview Robb Olson and Livius Nedin from Booked were kind enough to invite me to ...
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This is a guest post by Caleb J Ross as part of his Stranger Will Tour for Strange blog tour. He will be guest-posting beginning with the release of his novel Stranger Will in March 2011 to the release of his second novel, I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin and novella, As a Machine and ...
Icebergs in Your Shorts
I’ve been reading a lot of short story collections this year, and they always take me so much longer to get through than novels. Which I’m certain mirrors their authors’ own experiences creating them. It can be exhausting reading more than one story per sitting, even if it’s just ten pages. Creative writing instructors often ...
Bike Writing
I obsess over my sentences (in stories, not blog posts). This makes me an exceptionally-slow writer, as I don’t move on from a paragraph until it’s as polished as can be at that time. One finished page is a really solid evening for me. I prefer this meticulous method to the one most authors employ, ...
Will I Am but Will I Be?
Today as I sat on a park bench scribbling in a Moleskine and trying not to appear suspicious (difficult for a single male my age), irony washed over me as I flashed back to the book I’d read earlier this week, Stranger Will by Caleb J Ross. One element of the story features a cult ...
The Velvet Podcast 009
Episode 9: Does This Novel Make Me Look Fat?, part of The Velvet Podcast series, is now live, featuring discussion about self/vanity publishing. We debate its legitimacy, logistics, and financial aspects, as well as insights from their own experiences in this oft-scorned segment of the industry. I’m joined by authors/panelists Brandon Tietz and Caleb J ...
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