I’m also writing articles, short stories, and essays along the path to publishing my novels.
You can check out what I’ve been up to here!
My short story, “The Harvest in the Seed,” was published in November 2025 in the San Joaquin Valley Writers Anthology 2025, Beginnings and Endings.
Book description:
 “It is human nature to conceptualize the world consisting of beginnings and endings. This duality permeates almost everything we see, imagine, feel, and hope for. In this collection from San Joaquin Valley Writers, authors take unique perspectives on beginnings and endings, some real and tangible, some much less so.
Poets, fiction writers, and memoirists offer images and metaphors that urge the reader to see beyond the everyday definitions of beginnings and endings. From lost love to fearful first steps, from apocalyptic and imagined futures to tragic outcomes, from meeting someone for the first time to faded/fading memories—these and other creative takes on beginnings and endings will evoke the full range of senses and emotions in the reader.”
My short story, “Chicory is Not Coffee,” is included in the upcoming anthology Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews.
Book Description:
Meals, treats, brews, and potions from another batch of feisty characters.
Whether cooking for solace, scrounging for food, concocting medicine, or brewing poisons, the feisty women in these stories will keep you thirsting for more. Twenty-five tales will transport you far afield in time and place: third century Ireland, medieval Europe, twentieth-century Australia. Read your way from a hippie commune to a WW II internment camp in the Philippines; from a Renaissance palace to a Polish village wracked by war, the hills of Appalachia, and a sleepy Ontario town.
Mixtures to soothe, heal, and thrall are prepared in these pages, where lovers take revenge, mothers protect their children, and feisty women make choices in a challenging world.
Michele Drier, a prolific multi-genre author, recently spoke to the California Writers Club’s Sacramento Branch.
You can read my review of her presentation, published in the January 2025 edition of Sacramento Writers, here.