News & Works in Progress:

More "Holidazed" Coming Soon...

New Years Eve, 1999 (forthcoming December 2022)"

My short story, "Clean Enough to Eat Off," which was published in the Summer 2021 issue of 96Logic, was nominated for the annual Pushcart Prize for the Best in Indie Lit. Cool.

My short story, "Gargle" has been accepted and will be forthcoming in the literary journal Brown Bag. 

Fresh News Straight from Heaven is a winner:

Check out my interview on Robb Grindstaff's blog, 
"A Writer's Block"  

Two recent short story publications:“TRx” Abbey Review (2) Summer 2022. Pray,” Muleskinner Journal, issue 3

Hey, everybody. My short piece, "Blue Yodel," was published in the latest issue of Bear Creek Gazette

"The Spud," a short story I wrote in homage to Frank Zappa, has been published in Dark Horses magazine, May 2022.

Another of my short stories, "Nocturnal Emissions," appeared in Goat's Milk Magazine, 5) Summer 2020. 

I published a poem, "Christians from Outer Space, in High Shelf, November 2019.

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

Watch the Fresh News Straight from Heaven trailer

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: 

Thanksgiving, Thanksgotten, Thanksgone, volume five, "Holidazed." October 2022

 Thanksgiving, Thanksgotten, Thanksgone trailer

While you're at it, watch all the trailers for the other "Holidazed" Books, with music courtesty of the Oak Island Skunk Jumpers.

The Christmas Donut Revolution

Halloween from the Other Side

Upside Down Independence Day

Murder by Valentine Candy

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