30% OFF holiday discount! Palm Springs Noir edited by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett!! akashicbooks.com/catalog/palm-s… Use code “Holiday30” at checkout for an additional 5% off our site-wide 25% discount! T. Jefferson Parker Janet Fitch Eric Beetner Kelly Shire Tod Goldberg @rbbwmn Ken Layne Alex Espinoza

Still thinking about "All of This is Water" by David Ebenbach @debenbach in Coolest American Stories 2022, based on David Foster Wallace's commencement speech. COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES

We couldn't be more excited about this generous review of our inaugural volume. *Thank* you, @WIRoBooks & @Liz_Prato! #WritingCommunity #Reading #books #fiction #BooksWorthReading #readingforpleasure #BookRecommendations #readingcommunity #Read #shortstory #BookTwitter #writers

Congrats COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES for making @WIRoBooks Our Week in Reviews! Mark Wish Barbara DeMarco-Barrett S.A.Cosby @debenbach Matthew Goldberg 🐀 Michael Hopkins Lee Martin @FPbooks77 Megan Ritchie Susan Tacent Mary Taugher

So proud to have a story in COOLEST along with award-winning writers of all ages and backgrounds, writing styles and voices. Mark Wish Barbara DeMarco-Barrett S.A.Cosby @debenbach Matthew Goldberg 🐀 Michael Hopkins Lee Martin @FPbooks77 Megan Ritchie Susan Tacent Mary Taugher

Happy to report COOLEST 2022 is #1 on Amazon's fiction anthologies new releases list. Thank you, those of you who've ordered/given us customer reviews. & thank you, those who still will! amazon.com/COOLEST-AMERIC… #WritingCommunity #BookRecommendations #Books #Reading #fiction

Working my way through COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES. Just finished "Blue Martini" by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, one of my favorites besides "Shepherd's Hell" by Lori D. Johnson, who I can't find on Twitter, "SPIES" by dz stone and "The Summer My Sister was Cleopatra Moon. @FPbooks77

COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES @weRstories @FPbooks77 dz stone Lee Martin Megan Ritchie Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Michael Hopkins Susan Tacent Fiction writers checkout this exceptional anthology!

Oh hey look it's the last three years of our lives.

Hummingbird babies in the nest in the courtyard are calling for lunch. What if their mother doesn't show up? What then?

Great news. Glad my "Blue Martini" is a part of this!

I love Sally Shore's Los Angeles-based New Short Fiction Series. My story, "Blue Martini," and three others are featured. Join us!

Tonight! Great stories....and mine: "Blue Martini".....Join us!

Fun Sunday afternoon with ⁦Jeffrey Fleishman⁩ ⁦Barbara DeMarco-Barrett⁩ ⁩and a full house of crime fiction fans ⁦@BookCarnival⁩

After 14 years as a foreign correspondent, discovering LA as a setting for his crime novels felt like a new foreign assignment to "Goodnight, Forever" author ⁦ Jeffrey Fleishman. Great conversation about his fresh noir take on the city @BookCarnival yesterday w/ Barbara DeMarco-Barrett⁩

My talk with Isaac Fitzgerald on Writers on Writing is podcast everywhere you get your podcasts, and here: barbarademarcobarrett.com/2022/09/isaac-…

5-star excerpt from CAS 2022: See, that's what I was dealing with. He was a brilliant chemist but an idiot about everything else. ~Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's "Blue Martini" amazon.com/Coolest-Americ… #Reading #readingforpleasure #book #fiction #5amwritersclub #WritingCommunity #books

Thank you, Fiona!

Literary fun on a rainy day. Join us!