I read last night (Thursday, August 2) at the MWA-NY Crime Fiction Reading Series amid the moody crimson shadows of KGB in the East Village. The lineup included  Casey Barrett, Kellye Garrett, Rob Hart, V.S. Kemanis, and James McCrone, and the event was hosted by Jeff Markowitz. The audience really seemed to like the flash fiction story I read, so I’m encouraged to send it out to find a home.

It was a fine pleasure to be sitting down on a breezy day  and hawking my bookwares on Saturday, July 21, as part of the 20th anniversary Harlem Book Fair. Truth to tell, it was very breezy. Very, very breezy. Breezy enough to knock my neatly displayed books over (and I’d spent 10 whole minutes making those handmade cardboard book displays — must really invest in real ones, made of lead). Breezy