Hello and Welcome to Carriage Return, my bit of the World Wide Web. Writer, editor, professor, and publisher, my career has taken me from encrypting classified messages for the military and covering school board meetings for a small county paper to moving documentation from traditional printing outfits to print-on-demand operations and publishing literary journals. Please use this site to learn more about my credentials and view some of my writing samples.
What's been happening over the last few weeks?
I am recovering from my Cannonball Run trip down to the Chattanooga Writers Guild, where I particiapted in a panel discussion on editing and the publishing industry.
I attended and covered a reading by Nashville novelist Gary Slaughter at Parnassus Books. He read from his new novel. Cottonwood Summer '45.
I wrapped up another semester of teaching English courses for Western Kentucky University. With the final grades posted, it's time to relax a little bit.
I am working with the writers over at 2nd & Church as I edit and prepare our second issue for publication at the end of Q2 2012.
I am networking with Tennessee literary professionals as I lock in the theme and content for the Q3 issue of 2nd & Church.
I spent a day at the new Sigourney Cheek Literary Garden at Cheekwood, covering literary events all day. Robert Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs, read and discussed his latest biography, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. Later that same day, children’s authors Jamina Carder and Kaaren Engel shared the true story of Herman’s Journey, an inspiring and adventurous tale about two friends and a caterpillar. And the last event of the day was the third installment of Southern Word's Future Break series. Throughout May, select writers paint the future of Nashville into existence through language. Learn more at www.southernword.org.
This Thursday, May 24, I headed over to the Union Station Hotel for May's installment of Literary Libations, and afterwards, I was at the Dark Horse Theater for another Future Break event. Click here to learn more about it.
Last Saturday, I spent the day in Lousiville, Kentucky, promoting the journal at the homecoming celebrations at the Master of Fine Arts program at Spalding University.
And on Sunday, I was back at the Sigourney Cheek Literary Garden at Cheekwood to hear Gary Slaughter read again from Cottonwood Summer '45.
Please check back often for my on-going advetures!
