Howdy from Palm Springs! I’m out here enjoying the area (most especially the restaurants) while my husbear works in Moreno Valley, California. I have so many writer friends that I could easily read nothing else but their latest publications. This summer I gobbled up several novels by Julia Watts, with
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Cover of LGBTQ FICTION AND POETRY FROM APPALACHIA!
We finally have a cover for the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ writing from Appalachia! Here it is! The anthology will be released April 2019. If you’d like to pre-order the book, here’s the link: https://wvupressonline.com/node/775.
Read moreSUMMER READING 2018, PART ONE: CYNTHIA BURACK’S NEW BOOK
The anthology I’ve been co-editing with Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia, is off to the editorial department at West Virginia University Press, and I’ve recently composed an introduction and a Suggested Reading List for a new edition of one of my books of poems (details to come),
Read more“Krispy Kreme Fantasia”; or, Viggo Mortensen, We Hardly Knew Ye
Mark Ward at Impossible Archetype kindly published “Krispy Kreme Fantasia,” my poem about Viggo Mortensen, back in March 2017, but now he’s released it with its own URL. I wrote this poem a long time ago, back when my husband John and I had a house in Fort Hill, a
Read more“Redneck Bouquet” – Jeff’s New Poem Published At Chelsea Station Magazine
Great News! Jeff has a new poem, “Redneck Bouquet,” published Chelsea Station Magazine. Here is a little sample: …inked into my left forearm. Scotland’s echo, Nemo me inpune lacessit, or, in Scots, Wha daur meddle wi me? or, in hillbilly Nobody fucks with me… Jeff has published a lot of
Read moreCan You Help Us Out?!
Have a favorite author? Love their work and want to support them? Aside from the obvious, buying their books, there’s another vital way you can support them – by writing Amazon.com reviews of their work! Yes, something that simple is of great help to authors. Amazon.com reviews, simply put, provides
Read moreJEFF IS CO-EDITING THE FIRST-EVER ANTHOLOGY OF LGBTQ APPALACHIAN WRITING
Great news! I can finally announce that Julia Watts and I are co-editing the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ Appalachian fiction and poetry. It’ll be published by West Virginia University Press in Spring 2019. Here’s the background story. In April 2017, while I was in Morgantown to give a reading at
Read moreHappy Summer Solstice/Litha
May you and your clan find balance on this summer solstice.
Read moreSTARTING MY SECOND SABBATICAL (OR, ON THE TRAIL OF VIKINGS)
As a tenured professor at Virginia Tech, I have the great good fortune of applying for a sabbatical every six years. In 2011, I took the calendar year off from teaching, meaning that I was reduced to half-pay, but I managed to finish my first novel, Fog, and get a
Read moreJeff Is Participating In: The Romance Reviews’ Sizzling Summer Reads in June!
During the month of June, Jeff is a featured author in The Romance Reviews’ Sizzling Summer Reads in June! The Romance Reviews (TRR) is a one-stop, interactive site for all romance lovers to chat, deliver and receive up-to-date news about books and authors. They have reviews of books in all
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