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Sep 26, 2025

Kirkus Reviews

Sep 26, 2025

Kirkus is gonna LOVE Lostine

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Aug 31, 2025

Stretching Points?

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Stretching it

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Aug 26, 2025

Old Saws

Aug 26, 2025

New saws work better.

Aug 26, 2025

Aug 21, 2025

The Writing Life?

Aug 21, 2025

I didn’t write a word up there.

Aug 21, 2025

Aug 17, 2025

Endings

Aug 17, 2025

“Good bye, Norma Jeane”

Aug 17, 2025

Aug 13, 2025

Revising Training Wheel Mother

Aug 13, 2025

More likely, my title will change yet AGAIN!

Aug 13, 2025

Aug 8, 2025

I Just Wanted a Cookie

Aug 8, 2025

Look out, kid! She’s a biter!

Aug 8, 2025

Aug 4, 2025

I’m not a Plotnik

Aug 4, 2025

Plotting a story is about like doing this much re-bar work.

Aug 4, 2025

Jul 31, 2025

Revising Training Wheel Mother

Jul 31, 2025

Could a Little Mother lose her heart here?

Jul 31, 2025

Jul 28, 2025

Fishing

Jul 28, 2025

Literary Fishing, the High Life

Jul 28, 2025

BREAKING NEWS!

August 13th, 2025, Sterncastle Publishing and myself, author joe c smolen, signed a Publishing Agreement beginning the publishing process of my knives & guns mystery/romance novel, Lostine.

Set in 1969 in a swamp called Coffin Marsh, 6th-grade Chet, in order to save Lostine, the 7th-grade girl he loves, is forced into a fight to the death with two men he witnessed her commanding, while he struggles with the truth - that she is a marijuana plantation dragon lady.

Lostine is expected to be available to starved readers everywhere by May of 2026.