News & Works in Progress:

More "Holidazed" Coming Soon...

Thanksgiving, Thanksgotten, Thanksgone. "Holidazed" volume five, due November, 2021. 

Fresh News Straight from Heaven is a winner:

My short story, "Noctural Emissions" was accepted by Goats Milk, and will be published in Summer, 2020.

I published a poem, "Christians from Outer Space, in High Shelf, November 2019. https://www.highshelfpress.com/christiansfromouterspace 

 My short story, "At Riverside Cemetery," was published in the Winter, 2018 issue of Rumblefish Quarterly.

Fresh News was named one of the Best Local Books of 2018 by the Akron Beacon Journal. 

 An excerpt from Fresh News Straight from Heaven was published in the Fall, 2018 issue of the journal "History and Fiction." Check it out. 

 Fresh News got extensive reviews in "Independent Publisher" and the "Just Reviews" blog. Also, check out the review from the Akron Beacon Journal

What Would Johnny Appleseed Do? was the subject of a book talk and reading that I gave at Neverending Bookshop in Bothell, WA. Check out the video

Fresh News Straight from Heaven was published in January, 2018 by Evolved Publishing. Order the Book or eBook.    Watch the Fresh News Straight from Heaven trailer. 

Dawn Hesling of Sleepygirl Used Books and the Bound2Escape blog has put up a book spotlight of "Fresh News Straight from Heaven. 

I am putting the finishing touches on a poetry chapbook, entitled Sixty Sonnets on Things That Most People Don't Think About.

My short story, "Columbus Day,"was published in the Summer, 2016 issue of the online journal, Waypoints. Check it out.

May, 2016:  An updated author's profile, featured in Midwestern Gothic: contributor spotlight, Gregg SAPP

More Resources on Johnny Appleseed:

"Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero,"by W.D Haley, Harpers Magazine November, 1871. This early article popularized Johnny to a national readership.

"Johnny Appleseed: Man & Myth," by Robert Price - Indiana U. Press 1954, Urbana University Press, 2001. The first scholarly biography.

 "Johnny Appleseed: the Man, the Myth, the American Hero," by Howard Means. Simon & Schuster, 2011. A recent, popular biography.

"Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard," by William Kerrigan. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. A scholarly, but readable cultural history of Johnny and apple growers.

Just for fun, check out these YouTube videos:

The Old Settler Johnny Appleseed and Johnny's Angel. From the 1948 Disney movie, hear Dennis Day as Johnny sing "The Lord's Been Good to Me."

"Johnny Appleseed," a rock video by Joe Strummer (of the Clash) and the Mescaleros.

Gotta Love the honky tonk and Western Swing band, Johnny Appleseed.

And if your travels ever happen to land you in beautiful Urbana, Ohio, you should take time to visit the Johnny Appleseed Museum and Education Center at Urbana University. The books listed here are available for purchase online from the museum's gift shop.

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 “The Truth, indeed, is hard to find.  I say that a man is more likely to stumble over it by mistake than if he searches for it his whole life."    Johnny Appleseed in Fresh NewsStraight from Heaven

 Just Released: 

Murder by Valentine Candy. "Holidazed" volume four. February 2021. Order Now. 



Volume Three in the "Holidazed" series, Upside Down Independence Day -- June, 2020. 

 

 The first two "Holidazed" volumes are Halloween from the Other Side and The Christmas Donut Revolution. Both books are part of my new series of short satires, "Holidazed," centered around American holidays.