I have been writing professionally since 1997, writing for daily, weekly and monthly publications, both full time and as a correspondent. My work has appeared in publications including the Buffalo News, Bee Group Newspapers, and Western New York Catholic.
Since 2001, I have served on the editorial board of Toasted Cheese, a literary magazine and website for writers which has been selected four times as one of Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites for Writers.
Toasted Cheese articles:
- Fiction is a Series of Choices: An Interview with Seanan McGuire
- Negotiating Social Media for Writers: A Conversation With Jim C. Hines, Mary Robinette Kowal & Kameron Hurley
- Tell the Stories You Have to Tell: Interview with Tanya Huff
- We’re NOT Bored: Interview with Debbie Ohi
- Agents to Zombies: Author Mira Grant from A-Z
- Kissing Zombies and Blowing Up the World: An Interview with Adam Selzer
- All in a Day’s Work: Should Writing be a Job? (Interview with John Scalzi, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Seanan McGuire
- Surviving NaNoWriMo
- Books for the Writer’s Toolbox: A Guide to Grammar and Style Manuals
- Submit to Me! A Quick Guide to Help You Avoid Annoying the Editors
- Grabbing a Bite with MaryJanice Davidson
- Five Quick Tips for Getting Published
- Quantity, Not Quality: National Novel Writing Month
- On the Art and Business of Writing: An Interview with Wendy Corsi Staub
- Interview with Edie Hanes: Silouhette Intimate Moments Author
- Point of View: Who’s Telling Your Story?
- ‘Tis Better to Have Written…
- 30 is a Magic Number
Other online writing:
- Show, Don’t Tell
- The Everyday Blues
- Dialogue Dos and Don’ts
- Is “Alright” All right?
- Forty years, forty events (Buffalo Spree Magazine)
Newspaper articles:
- CCC marks 65th anniversary
- What do you mean, ‘I can’t?’
- Rollin’ Thunder rolling on
- Missionaries open their arms and hearts to Buffalo’s neediest at St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy
Fiction:
Other publications (not available online):
- “We Are…Heartbroken.” Notes From Inside a Burst Bubble: Penn Staters on the Sandusky Scandal. Ed. Housley, David and Sheila Squillante. 2013. Originally published Nov. 15, 2011 at eringoblog.net.
- “A Mother Knows.” Woman’s World. 6 Sept. 2005: 44.
- “Pass it On.” Inspiration for Greeks. Ed. Angelo, Anthony J. Lambertville, NJ: The Collegiate EmPowerment Company, Inc. 2001. 38-41.