Making the Book - One Week Hiatus

I’m taking a week off from Making the Book to catch up on some other work, and to get back on track with my current writing project. In the meantime, why not check out the first episode of “You’ve Got to Read This”, a video series I did for my old Website, The Intersection.

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Making the Book #002: Revelation (Video)

Making the Book is a Web video series where I read and discuss my written work. Each week, I look back at how the stories I’ve published came to be and offer advice based on my experience as an adjunct English instructor and a lifelong writer. This week, I’m reading and discussing “Revelation,” a short story first published as “Christbearer” in The Bradford ReView and later collected under its current title in Those Little Bastads.

“Revelation” is a story about what happens when a Jesus Christ is cloned from a blood sample found on the Shroud of Turin. Originally told from the point of view of an angry young atheist, it has since been revised so that it is now seen through the eyes of a devout Christian woman. In this week’s episode of Making the Book, I talk a little about why our choice of point-of-view characters is so important.

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Making the Book #001: Sam (Video)

Making the Book is a Web video series where I’ll read and discuss my written work. I’ll look back at how the stories I’ve published came to be and offer advice based on my experience as an adjunct English instructor and a lifelong writer. This week, I’m reading and discussing “Sam,” a short story first published in The Bradford ReView and later collected in Those Little Bastads.

Here’s an excerpt:

Sam hated everybody. Everybody sucked. They were all assholes. He hated each and every person on the face of the planet, including the millions he’d never even met. He hated everyone except for the redheaded girl that sat in front of him in Lit class.

He loved her.

If you’ve read Those Little Bastads and would like to suggest which story I discuss next, .

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