March 2010:
first piece accepted by elimae: the serious writer and her bush | feeling burnt out. need to take a break from the net for one or two weeks | i’m thinking about a submission for dorothee lang’s marvelous blue print review (hailing from germany) from my 24 hr flash cycle | Waiting for pieces to be published at mad hatter’s review, wrong tree review, divine dirt quarterly, litsnack, and foundling review. can i take a break now, please? | i started the paddy day challenge over at fictionaut and i’m going to submit an old irish piece of mine for it | i wrote a piece “at a welsh wedding” for frank hinton’s wedding but it (the piece, not the wedding) is still riddled with inconsistencies. welsh! | i really enjoyed getting to know Carol Novack better, who calls me her “fictionaut starlet”. she’s not joking either. she invited me to Zoetrope and I have an office there now. By the way, mhr has got a contest. | a very nice michael j solender had me over at notfromhereareyou as a special guest writer with “India Times” | wondered if i should stop this journaling experiment (read my facebook pages) and simply enter the published pieces and mags. assez pour l’instant (i’d also like to spend more time on learning french).
February 2010: Grapple, a piece from my new story made up of 24 flash pieces playing in all the different time zones of the Earth, marches through to the top of the fictionaut recommended stories list, accompanied by my reading. A welcome confirmation for the whole story that i’m now working to complete! | Foundling Review accepts my piece “Off the Record”. | Three autobiographical pieces named ‘Rock’, ‘Paper’ and ‘Scissors’, accepted by the Mad Hatter’s Review: mad! | Other pieces don’t make it through but are hardened by surviving the enemy fire. | the great valentine’s day massacre at fictionaut, to which a dozen writers responded, called to arms by susan tepper, ended in, rumor has it, in a collective chapbook including, we hope, my contribution, rose petals.
January 2010: Why I Write published in fourpaperletters edited by Laura Isaacson | My sentimental piece The Serious Writer And His Hamster gathers eulogical recommendations over at fictionaut. | Somehow, this seems important and cool: all of my podcasts are now available via iTunes (for free download). | Podcast of “Obituary of a Poet Heretic” in honor of my dad’s birthday, was featured by BULLblog and is highly recommended at fictionaut | “The Serious Writer and His Penis” gathers recommendations, spawns other stories and is published at Metazen | My dry review of Nora Nadjarian’s wonderful poem “Mother Tongue” appears in the fictionaut blog | “Potato Mash” reprinted as ‘Best of Metazen‘ story complete with review and podcast.
December 2009: Four Fundamentalist Teenagers in Front of a Metropolitan Railway Car wins the Metazen Image-to-Text-Conversion contest by an eyelash amidst great competition | Exciting: Susan Gibb, hyperfictionalista extraordinaire, converts Listen to a hyperfiction story! | Obscure yet elevating: The Vessel made the “recommended stories” list at Fictionaut – first time since i joined in October | Heart-warming: new story Hitler’s Angel (A Christmas Carol) appears in the Metazen Christmas book surrounded by great pieces of wonderful people | Pneumatically riveting: Four of my stories (“Off the Record“, “Regret” , “The Vessel” and “Asthmatic“) made the “Recommended Stories” list over at Fictionaut, my favourite literary hang out.
July – November 2009: tickled pink, Potato Mash, My Hood published by Metazen, an online metafiction journal edited by Frank Hinton, Jessica Alchesse and Dylan Cohen | Agencypiece and Teenage Want published by fourpaperletters, edited by Laura Isaacman | A version of My Father My Milk, now called Obituary to a Poet Heretic, published by Bull, edited by Jarrett Haley, and accompanied by an interview at the BULLshot.
January – June 2009: I am born on 22 January to German parents. I learn to write before I can talk, using my father’s pen filled with my mother’s milk.
