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A Home for Laika and Other Tails Coming Soon
Coming in the fall of 2021, from Big Table Publishing: A Home for Laika and Other Tails is a chapbook collection of thirteen stories featuring mankind’s faithful, but often-times annoying four-legged canine companions.
Some of these stories have appeared in: Boston Literary Magazine, Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal; and Potluck.
Edit Ruthlessly
Highly Evolved “Black Alien”
When I saw this story on the internet I immediately thought of my short story, “Evolved,” contained in my new collection Transmogrify coming out in late 2021 from Červená Barva Press.
“Anyone?”
Bagels with the Bards #14 Debuts
Issue #14 contains my short story, “A Lovely Ride in the Park.”
Bagels with the Bards #14
The Bagel Bards (or Bagels with the Bards) (are) a group of poets varied in age, race, gender meet, share poems, discuss poetry, drink lots of coffee, chew a bagel if so desired, sometimes sell their books. The atmosphere is generous and open to all, and you don’t have to be a poet to attend. What I…
“Transmogrify” Accepted for Publication at Červená Barva Press
“What Goes Around, Floats Around”
My short story, “What Goes Around, Floats Around” has been published in the 60th issue (Volume 15, number 4) of Wilderness House Literary Review.
“Klaatu Barada Nikto” and “Danger Will Robinson” Accepted in Altered Reality Magazine
The publication Altered Reality Magazine accepted two of my micro fiction stories, “Klaatu Barada Nikto” and “Danger Will Robinson” for publication in its online journal.
Phil Temples Featured on The Writer’s Voice Podcast
Lowercase People
COVID-19 Risk to Writers
Interviewed for The Writer’s Voice Podcast
Yesterday, I was interviewed on Zoom by Linda McHenry for The Writer’s Voice podcast. I spoke about my writing career, and my Carrie Bloomfield series of scientific murder mysteries. I also described my novel “The Kanawha Anomaly” coming out from Moonshine Cove Publishing in August, 2021,
The interview was a lot of fun. Linda has a way of putting even the most nervous interviewee at ease!
“Full Stops” Warning
Tyrannothesaurus
“Because Murder Is Wrong”
New Writing Project: “Dark Harvest”
I’m putting one of my older projects back on the shelf to embark upon a new novel that I’m calling “Dark Harvest.” It’s a scientific murder-mystery starring a new female protagonist and statistician, Jamie Patrick, Ph.D. She finds herself in grave danger after uncovering an illegal scheme to harvest organs from undocumented refugees who are funneled to a criminal enterprise from unscrupulous elements within Homeland Security.
Insignificant Feeling
“Bjorn the Well-Read”
Really Bad Analogies Written by High School Students
Not Ready for Publication
This poster is in need of some serious copyediting prior to publication…
“The Kanawha Anomaly” Accepted for Publication Today!
Moonshine Cove Publishing has accepted for publication my manuscript, “The Kanawha Anomaly,” about an unexplained phenomenon that occurs in the Appalachian region of West Virginia.
No estimated publishing date yet, but if previous experience with my last two Moonshine Cove novels is any indication, it should probably be around May-June, 2021.
UPDATE: Moonshine Cove Publishing has given me an estimated publication date of August 21, 2021.
“Do Androids Dream of… What?!”
“Record Breaker” Featured in Boston Literary Magazine
The July, 2020 issue of Boston Literary Magazine features my micro story, “Record Breaker.”
Some of the Best Words Ever
Judge a Book
The whole point of a book’s cover is so people can judge it. #Justsaying -Chris Reilley
Wilderness House Literary Review has published my short flash fiction story, “Demon Wind” in its 58th issue (Volume 15, number 2).
Cervena Barva Press 15-Year Celebration Readings
Cervena Barva Press 15-Year Celebration Readings in July, August. Rob Dinsmoor and Phil Temples will read on Monday, July 13, 2020.
How Wonderfully Perceptive!
Dear Amazon:
Gosh, how wonderfully perceptive your algorithms are. It’s truly amazing! I can’t thank you enough for recommending this book to me…
The Kanawha Anomaly Ready for Submission
I received some excellent corrections and feedback from my beta readers on “The Kanawha Anomaly” manuscript and am now starting the process of submitting it to publishers. Wish me luck!
Rob Dinsmoor, Phil Temples Reading at Cervena Barva Press
Author Rob Dinsmoor (“Toxic Cookout“) and Phil Temples (“Uncontacted Frontier“) will read from their respective works on Monday, July 13, 2020 at 7 PM as a part of Cervena Barva‘s online series . Details to follow.
“Amidst the global coronavirus pandemic, in April Cervena Barva Press marked 15 years of publishing fine literature from around the world. Though our in-person celebration was cancelled due to Covid-19, we invite you, our authors and friends, to celebrate Cervena Barva Press. Choose an evening in July or August to continue our tradition of sharing your extraordinary poetry and fiction. As in the past, during our “Cervena Barva Press Reads Around the World” gatherings, this will be a world-wide event.”
Pretend
Keith-Wolos Book Launch, Wellesley Books, June 10, 2020
Two of my very good friends, Michael C. Keith and Greg Wolos, will appear in support of their new books in the following venue:
Wellesley Books –– Zoom launch June 10 at 7 PM. Go to website to register for the event. https://www.wellesleybooks.com/event/wolos-keith
“Diary of an Alien”
My story, “Diary of an Alien,” appears in the Summer issue of Clever Magazine.
“Really Red”
“Did You Even Read the Book?”
What a hoot!
“Downward Flow” in Boston Literary Magazine, May 2020
Uncontacted Frontier on Bookshop.org
Uncontacted Frontier
Carrie Bloomfield receives an email after nearly thirty years from Francois Boucher, M.D., formerly of Doctors Without Borders. A former love interest of Carrie’s, Boucher now works in the for-profit sector and is responsible for new drug discoveries with a large multinational conglomerate, Aprone-F…
“Meet the Author’s Dog”
Annual Neologism Contest
ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. The winners are:
1. Coffee (N.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (V.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (V.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (Adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (Adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (V.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (N.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (N.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (N.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (N.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (N.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon 
, a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (N.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (N.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (N.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
The Washington Post’s Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s winners:
1. Bozone (N.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
2. Foreploy (V): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. 3. Cashtration (N.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially
impotent for an indefinite period.
4. Giraffiti (N): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm (N): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
6. Inoculatte (V): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Hipatitis (N): Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis (N): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
9. Karmageddon (N): It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
10. Decafalon (N.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
11. Glibido (V): All talk and no action.
12. Dopeler effect (N): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at
you rapidly.
13. Arachnoleptic fit (N.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
14. Beelzebug (N.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
15. Caterpallor (N.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.
And the pick of the literature:
16. Ignoranus (N): A person who’s both stupid and an asshole
The most complex word in the English is only three letters long
Sprucecones
From Falseknees:
Reading at Virtual Noir at the Bar – New England, May 14, 2020
Giving a short reading from my new novel Uncontacted Frontier at the “Virtual Noir at the Bar” on May 14. Sign up at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-noir-at-the-bar–3/register.
“Majority of Authors ‘Hear’ Their Characters Speak”
“Newest Addition to Bob Weinstock’s Library”
First Known Sighting of “Uncontacted Frontier”
My good buddy Bob Rowlands emailed me this photo:
“Look at what came to our house from Amazon today! Someday in the future (I don’t know when yet), I want to get together in person for drinks and dinner, and you can autograph it for me! Although I read at least part of the draft a while ago, I’m looking forward to reading the finished product. It’ll be my bedtime reading.”
I’m still awaiting my copies of Uncontacted Frontier from the printer. ;-(
Uncontacted Frontier Debuts on Amazon.com!
Oh, frabulous day! Uncontacted Frontier made its debut on Amazon.com.
“Keep Walking”
“Ruptured Space”
Writer’s Block
