Necessary Fiction

A friend of mine, Matt Bell, had an interesting piece of fiction accepted by the online magazine, Necessary Fiction. Check out Matt's story here:

http://necessaryfiction.com/2009/06/matt-bell-how-i-started-going-to.html

I'm glad he did because I'd been looking for a home for my latest flash piece called "Inside Job". I thought, "what the heck" sent it to NF, and sure enough it was accepted. The editor there, Steve Himmer, gave me some insightful comments to improve the piece, and it should be up on their site within the next couple weeks.

Interestingly enough, Necessary Fiction is affiliated with So New Publishing. And, So New published Jackie Corley's book The Suburban Swindle, which I read this spring and liked. I found out about The Suburban Swindle because Jackie had accepted a flash piece of mine called "A Raven, Then a Cross" for Word Riot.

I liked her book so much that I mentioned it on a blog post below...and even referred people to my friend Josh Maday's review of Jackie's book on New Pages.

New Pages is under the stewardship of Casey and Denise Hill. I'm a colleague of Denise's at Delta College.

The connections here are almost endless. I think Kevin Bacon is involved somewhere in all of this.