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Currently---before our recent discussion about Cronenberg with my book-club friends, I've been finessing a 1,600-word short story about a boy's relationship with his father, in particular his admiration for father's working-man hands.

Nate Powell shared his process of translating published books into graphic novels. It's a slow, very detailed approach before the graphic novel is published. He talked about multiple reads of the written book, earmarking and taking notes on how best to illustrate the work into visual storytelling.

Thank you to The Literary Hatchet, published by Pear Tree Press, for including Abby's Lockbox in their book #38, released in November 2024.

Renee Coloman is delighted to share that the editors from Literally Stories selected my work, Once Bitten, for publication---coming this winter.

One of my top-tier favorite pastimes is attending OC Library's hosted literary events featuring best-selling authors. A few days ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Kaira Rouda, an award-winning USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author of contemporary fiction that explores what goes on beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives. Yeah! Bring it on, Kaira!! "Let's talk murder. The fictional kind, of course." That's her tagline. And I love it.

Short stories have a way of seeping from my pores. I can't help myself. I'm addicted to writing speculative narratives that feel weird, violent and heart-breaking, yet truthful in representing our humanity.

In this flash moment of time---an experience imprinted deep, deep into my mind---I can't help but think, hating myself, for all the beauty in this world that we bend, break, and destroy. We're good at it. A five-star review.

Tick, tock, tick. There's a countdown clock inside my brain. Play the game, play the game, I tell myself. But I can't let him win. Not when it comes to my memories, to what I know about my brother's death. I can't let him win. Can't let Dad gaslight me. Again and again and again.

Reflection, growth, and creative ambition. Capturing a writer's introspective journey.

The deeper Farrell walked into the house, the stronger the stench of putrid flesh. He covered his nose and mouth with his hand, removing...

I wrote ROBBY's Come to Play, a light sci-fi short fiction, in early 2024---a gut reaction to waking up alone in bed one pre-dawn morning and feeling a crazed urge to smash apart my phone and terminate its screeching alarm.

Hybrid poetry-flash fiction reflecting on the power of love

Beneath the Rain: Not Yet ... read by the author, Renee Coloman This hybrid flash fiction packs layers of emotion, as the narrator...

A hybrid flash fiction by Renee Coloman We sit on the university steps. Your umbrella a sheathed sword between us. Wet cement glistens,...

Yes, there’s something unusual about me. A predilection for books since childhood.

To write is human, to edit is divine . --- Stephen King Earlier this week, I completed a rewrite of my thriller novel, landing a tad...

Day after day, my mother had washed and cleaned our lives, but no amount of laundry detergent could wash away what my father had. What...

An everlasting friendship brings light to the darkness There's a reoccurring darkness I trip and fall into as a writer. Not in the sense...

Festival season is one of my favorite times of the year. Especially when authors, artists, editors, screenwriters, and producers join...

Jason Reynolds, internationally acclaimed and award-winning author of middle-grade and young-adult books. Last night, I finished reading...