Selling My Babies. Where’s the Joy?

May 29, 2014

It’s never the full-blown joy I expect when a short story is accepted for publication. Even when the acceptance letter …

Help Me Celebrate a Writing Milestone

December 27, 2013

I just finished writing an 85,000 word novel that I’ve been working on the past couple of years. It feels …

November 7, 2013

Us, Ancient by Deborah J. Brasket You know what I love most about swimming? How perky my breasts get. All …

September 24, 2013

This is the title of a short story I wrote that was published in the Fall Issue of Cobalt Review. …

August 23, 2013

Oliver Sacks wrote a piece for the New York Times last month called “The Joy of Old Age (No Kidding!)”. It ended …

June 16, 2013

It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …

May 20, 2013

I fell in love with the title of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” before I ever read …

May 5, 2013

Short stories are getting a lot of love lately. May has been proclaimed National Short Story Month. Others have dubbed …