Diana Arterian of Gold Line Press Shares Fiction Chapbook Success Tips
by Bonnie ZoBell Welcome to Diana Arterian, the current Editor-in-Chief of Gold Line Press (a rotating position) and the creator and Managing Editor of Gold Line’s imprint, Ricochet, both of which publish poetry and fiction/prose [...]
Painting and Cover of What Happened Here: a novella & stories
I found a beautiful painting of a macaw called Red Bird painted by the remarkably talented Sandy Tweed online--absolutely perfect for the book cover idea Kevin Morgan Watson of Press 53 and I were looking [...]
Book Heart
Finally--lots of books came in boxes from Press 53. So pretty I made a book heart:
Michael Kasper Reviews Lift Your Right Arm by Peter Cherches
Peter Cherches has been writing short-prose since before cute phrases like “Flash Fiction” or “Short Shorts” were coined to characterize the genre. His first books came out in the early 1980’s, from notable downtown New [...]
Robin Martin Reviews Bonnie ZoBell’s Short Stories in The Whack Job Girls
Humans are curious and strange. We attach to unnaturally bred teacup dogs, watch television that dramatizes the most heinous human acts, invent stories about strangers’ lives, dig our heels in stubbornly over things fathomable only [...]
Bonnie ZoBell Reviews Valerie Fioravanti’s Short Story Collection Garbage Night at the Opera
The seemingly romantic way in which Valerie Fioravanti connects her stellar collection, Garbage Night at the Opera, is by placing all of a large Italian family in the same Brooklyn apartment building. Through [...]
My Mother Was an Upright Piano by Tania Hershman
With such a wonderfully offbeat title, one can only hope the book will follow through with equally unique stories. Thankfully, they do. Tania Hershman's fictions are full of quirk and a brilliant use of language that [...]
Interview with Gloria Mindock at Červená Barva Press
Part of an ongoing series by Bonnie ZoBell, entitled "Creating and Publishing a Flash Chapbook. This originally appeared in Flash Fiction Chronicles. By Bonnie ZoBell We are pleased to have Gloria Mindock, author of La [...]
Celebrations: Cliff Garstang’s WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW Wins the 2013 Library of Virginia Award for Fiction
What the Zhang Boys Know, a stellar new book by Clifford Garstang, is full of such beautiful language and is so gripping that while his winning this award is definitely a cause for celebration, it's no [...]
Bonnie ZoBell Interviews Tammy Lynne Stoner of Gertrude Press
Part of an ongoing series by Bonnie ZoBell, entitled "Creating and Publishing a Flash Chapbook. This originally appeared in Flash Fiction Chronicles. by Bonnie ZoBell The following is an interview of Tammy Lynne Stoner, Fiction [...]