It’s bad news, good news time.   The bad news is that it’s September and –at least where I live — that means that winter is lurking around out there, waiting to pounce.  But the good news is that all of DLSIJ’s ebooks are 15% off during September, so you can stock up now with great [...]

Posted on September 5th, 2008 by EJ McFall
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In Shallow Grave, my book of short stories set in the fictional town of Rockville, I imagined what would happen to a young family trapped in their storm shelter after a tornado hits their farm. It’s not something I’ve personally experienced, but growing up in the Midwest I did spend lots of time as a [...]

Posted on June 29th, 2008 by EJ McFall
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As I listen to CNN’s coverage of the tragedies in China and Myanmar, I can’t help feeling an uneasy sense of deja vu. While the circumstances are certainly unique, the photos of grief-stricken survivors reminds me of the images of the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami and of Hurricane Katrina. It was in the wake [...]

Posted on May 18th, 2008 by EJ McFall
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As I sit here at my computer, it’s late April and it’s snowing. I’m not a big fan of winter in the best of years, but this last cold season lasted way too long for me. Over the last few months I’ve had to deal with both my mother’s death and my father’s debilitating illness [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by EJ McFall
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November is quickly approaching and that means raking leaves, cooking turkeys, and welcoming (or avoiding) relatives. November is also National Novel Writing Month and that means that thousands of writers around the world will be sitting in a dazed frenzy at their keyboards, writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days as part of the [...]

Posted on October 10th, 2007 by EJ McFall
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“The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, thorough castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul. The dark path of the fairy tale forest lies in the shadows of our imagination, the depths of our unconscious. To travel to the wood, [...]

Posted on July 25th, 2007 by EJ McFall
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Not terribly long ago, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what a blog is. Now I’m sitting down to write my first blog entry for an online literary site. My conversion from print writer to online writer may finally be complete.
Yesterday I saw an article in the Isthmus (Madison, Wisconsin’s free arts paper) [...]

Posted on April 24th, 2007 by EJ McFall
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