February Was a Good Month

(despite the cold)

Since the height of the pandemic through this month, I've had close to seventy personal essays published or accepted, plus a handful of short stories.  Here’s this month’s tally:

--My comic little story "So My Mother Killed Stalin" appeared in Witcraft:  https://witcraft.org/2024/02/21/so-my-mother-killed-stalin-no-really/ How could I not love a magazine with that title?

--I got the correct URL for "Writer Off the Road" in Roi Fainéant:  https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/writer-off-the-road-by-lev-raphael

--"Ghost Call," a memoir essay, appeared in Paranormal Magazine’s International Edition: https://writewithoutborders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ghost-Call.pdf  It's my second piece there.

--"The Zombies Didn't Get Me (and Neither did the Brits)" appeared in an English journal that's been online for 25 years.  And it turns out that the part about the NHS really connected with the editor: https://www.hackwriters.com/ZombiesLR.htm It was rejected by twelves others without comment.

--I also had a paper proposal accepted for the May 2024 American Language Association in Chicago about how Edith Wharton changed my life and career.  I'll be registered as an independent scholar. Three of my twenty-seven books are Wharton-related: Rosedale in Love (novel), The Edith Wharton Murders (mystery), and Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Shame (biography/literary criticism). 

I also posted five book reviews at Writing Across Genres.

Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

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