Published works, so far...

A forthcoming Q&A with the Writer's League of Texas and my story "Lubbock 1974," in the October issue of the University of South Carolina's Amarillo Bay, a literary magazine, the second one published from book Long Gone & Lost: True fictions and other lies...

Which is now due in 21 days, to finish out my MFA by year's end. And believe me, I'm going to try and get the whole thing published right alongside HAP.HAZ.ARD the poetry collection I've been steady building as wrestle my way through stories. 

Plan to get back to the novels I started a year or so back, now. and hopefully, I'll have to fits around my full time job. Thankfully, the electrical classes are behind me because I found out yesterday that one of the big classes I've taught since I started is canceled this semester due to a lack of enrollment. Apparently, student numbers are some of the worst ever at Victoria College this semester. For a dude who gets paid by the number of classes I teach and the credits they grant, that wasn't good news yesterday. Gonna be a huge hickey on my anticipated pay. 

Since my class ended on Wednesday I've since applied to almost every major electrical firm in town today. Hopefully something turns up otherwise, though, because otherwise I'm slated for five days a week. All right around lunchtime, and Tuesdays and Thursdays aren't even for a full hour, which makes landing a job elsewhere next to impossible.

Of course, once the book's in, I'm not quite sure what else might be involved. The school will print a couple copies of it, but I don't what all I have to do with. I'm kinda hoping some electrical pans out, so I can start building hours.

I'd love to master that trade as well. Because "Jack of all all trades and master of one" sounds too much like the alternative. 

Anyway, it occurred to me that I hadden't but a full running running list of new publications on my blog site yet. I'm going to add them at some point today. The rest include:

Poem: Cold Summer Showers | Typishly | July 24, 2018
Guest Blog: Q&A with Bobby Horecka | Clancy Tucker’s Blog | Victoria, Australia | July 23, 2018
Poem: My Little Girl | Alchemy | Portland Community College | Portland, Ore. | May 2018
Poem: Why You (Dis)sin? | Alchemy | Portland Community College | Portland, Ore. | May 2018
Poem: Hap.Haz.Ard | LPC’s Havik Anthology Rise | Las Positas College | Livermore, Calif. | May 2018
Poem: Hipster Jesus | LPC’s Havik Anthology Rise | Las Positas College | Livermore, Calif. | May 2018
Story: Mr. Man Candy | Bluestem Magazine | Eastern Illinois University | Charleston, Ill. | May 2018
Book: Winds of Change | Texas Farm Bureau | Waco, Texas | December 2008