A digital, literary micro-magazine, Under the Gum Tree is a non-fiction storytelling project, published by my colleague Janna Marlies Santoro. She says,

Things are busy here, as I’ve been working with several writers on their manuscripts, newsletters and blogs, writing reviews, including one for Gently Read Literature, and preparing for an interview

I wrote a First and Second Look for Narrative Magazine on one of my favorite books: Through the Arc of the Rainforest by Karen Tei Yamashita.

So after about a year, Brad and I had eliminated the possibility of finding an agent, and through that agent a major contract, simply because of his lack of a platform.

The Soul Making Awards Reading was on Sunday at the San Francisco Main Library in the Koret Auditorium. The flash fiction judge, Carolyn A Clark, was not able to attend, but the creative non fiction editor, Jim LeCuyer, was there.