Books

Guess This Is Kaput: Stories (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2026) (forthcoming)

Wait There Till You Hear from Me (Novel, Crescent City Books, 2025)

Short Stories

“A Mouth’s a Mouth” in Beloit Fiction Journal (forthcoming)

“We Don’t Want Any Witnesses” in Black Cat Weekly (forthcoming)

“The Night Nurse” in Big Smoke Pulp Vol. 2 (forthcoming)

“Golden Memories” in Cold Caller (forthcoming)

“A Whole Nother Story” in LMNL

“Old Skip” in Cowboy Jamboree

“One More Thing I Need to Say to You” in ABQ InPrint 

“Passive-Aggressive Much” in Action, Spectacle

“Stick Him” in Blood + Honey

“Thanks for Stopping” in Cowboy Jamboree: “Tough Women, Gritty Tales”

“Let’s Just Say We’re Two Friends” Third Place in in Santa Fe Reporter 2024 Writing Contest: Fiction

“What Ever Happened to the Cracker Jacks?” in Stone’s Throw from Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, reprinted in Stone’s Throw Anthology

“I Bet You’re a Good Husband” in Texas Wind from Cowboy Jamboree Press, reprinted in Four Corners Voice, Volume 2 (forthcoming)

“I Guess I Better Not” in Reckon Review

“Didn’t Want to Say I Told You So” in Black Cat Weekly

“Deadhead” in Cowboy Jamboree: “A Case of Kink,” reprinted in Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025 (forthcoming)

“That’s My Final Offer” in Punk Noir‘s Super Noirio issue

“Never Mind in Two Thousand” in Action, Spectacle, reprinted in Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2025 (forthcoming)

“Hell-Bent for Leather” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 

“Tubthumping” in Tough

“Keep Yr Eye on the Moon” in Cowboy Jamboree: the “Covers” issue

“You Still There” in Dark Yonder

“Night Life” in Red Headed Writing, an anthology of writing incited by the music of Willie Nelson, from Cowboy Jamboree Press

“Guess This Is Kaput” in Xavier Review

“La Isle Flotant” in The One Percent: Tales of the Super Wealthy and Depraved from Rock and a Hard Place Press

“Death Gets in the Nostrils” in Third Place in the Jim Martin Memorial Short Story Contest from the Arizona Mystery Writers of America

“Well Beyond Sorry” in Stone’s Throw from Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, reprinted in Stone’s Throw Anthology

“You Learn to Recognize Those Things” in Unlikely Stories

“It Wasn’t Waylon and Willie” in Anti-Heroin Chic

“Fourth and Inches” in BULL

“Paradise” in Santa Monica Review

“Moral Lessons” in Hoosier Noir

“It Doesn’t Become You” in Mystery Tribune

“No One Asked Questions” in Shotgun Honey

“Keep Your Head Up” in Mardi Gras Mysteries

“Nashville Radio” in Valparaiso Fiction Review

“Valley Girl” in Shotgun Honey

“Something I Can Never Have” in Tough

“After Midnight at the C’est La Vie Lounge” in Pulp Modern

“Taylor Swift Valentine’s Day Advice” in Atticus Review

“Detour” in Tough

“The Lights of San Francisco” in Switchblade

“The First Blow” in Akashic Books Mondays Are Murder Flash Fiction Blog

“Carpetbagger” in Xavier Review

“But She Was in Trouble, Too” in Xavier Review

“I Want to Destroy You” in Great Jones Street

“Give Me Goodwill Hunting” in Great Jones Street

“Warning Shot” in Shotgun Honey

“Customers” in Akashic Books Mondays Are Murder Flash Fiction Blog

“Grand Casino” in Akashic Books Mondays Are Murder Flash Fiction Blog

“A Quality of Mercy” in Blue Earth Review

“Tiny” in Witness

“Ghosts” in Natural Bridge

“The Hit” in Xavier Review, reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories 2012 and Great Jones Street

“Donegan’s Lost Year” in Spork Magazine’s Weekly Fiction Blog

“Bodies” in Apalachee Review

“Life Before the Storm” in News from the Republic of Letters

Interviews

John Vercher in Mystery Tribune

Moira Crone in Xavier Review

James Sallis in Xavier Review

Adrian Van Young in Los Angeles Review of Books

Boots Riley in The Rumpus

Mary Chapin Carpenter in The Rumpus

Nikki Lane in The Rumpus

Todd Snider in The Rumpus

James McMurtry in The Rumpus

Jolie Holland in The Rumpus

Martin Atkins in The Rumpus

Essays

“Bad Cop, Bad Cop: Jean-Claude Izzo and Mediterranean Noir” in Tough

“Waiting for Bill” in Guernica

Reviews

My reviews have appeared in Star-Tribune, ANTIGRAVITY, The Rumpus, Kenyon Review, Xavier Review, New Orleans Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Mystery Tribune, and elsewhere.