New Ray’s Road Review!

I'd like to announce the publication of the Fall 2014 issue of Ray's Road Review, featuring a lot of great new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. This issue also marks the passing of the nonfiction and photography editing baton from Kelley Clink to Gretchen VanOstrand. Many thanks to both women. Since I edit the poetry, I …

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My 400th Blog Post

This is my 400th blog post. That's pretty big. I started here on WordPress back in June 2011 after leaving Xanga. I don't write every day like I did for years on Xanga, but I try to put something out there on a fairly regular basis. Of course, over the past year or so, many …

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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,900 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to …

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Magazine Submission Rules

I'm the poetry editor for Ray's Road Review and I've been a professional poet for about 25 years. Over time, you learn -- or should learn -- various magazine submission rules, but lately some of the people submitting to RRR have been so boneheaded, I thought I'd mention a few here. First, read the submission …

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A Review of Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich My rating: 2 of 5 stars I give up! I surrender! I got to page 602 of this 1,050 paqe book and I simply could not proceed onward. It's flat out BORING!!! I expected to learn gripping, intimate details on Himmler, the SS, Himmler and Hitler, and more. Instead, I …

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