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Fiction Bragging — She Could Be Me
Time for the next entry in my self-promotion series! She Could Be Me is a short story published by Flashes in the Dark back in May of 2010. And it’s available online for free! It’s a horror story with...
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Nonfiction Bragging–The Trickster
My bragging series or “How I Attempted to Embrace Self-Promotion” continues with an entry from my nonfiction creative writing, published online in 2010. This one is a short piece on the disappearance...
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Nonfiction Bragging: WRAL Out & About Review of Southern Rail
You may have missed it last week—I know I did—but my second review for WRAL’s Out and About was published. This time, I visited Southern Rail in Carrboro to check out their dining scene, knowing full...
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Fiction Bragging — Apocalypse
It’s been a few weeks since the last installment in my Thursday Bragging series. We are now almost caught up to a year ago in my published works. This one is a fantasy flash fiction piece that happens...
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Fiction Bragging – Maya’s Vacation
My bragging series has finally brought us to the publication of my first book, Maya’s Vacation! It is a romance novella, reaching just about 50 pages in all, and it was published by Astraea Press in...
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Fiction Bragging – Win a copy of Maya’s Vacation! Bonus: Listen to Me Read...
For this installment of my Thursday bragging series, I’m giving away 5 copies of my e-book, Maya’s Vacation! What’s that? You like to win things? Well, entering to win is easy. Just leave a comment on...
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Review Bragging and Winners of Maya’s Vacation!
Hello everyone! For my bragging series this week, I am going to share a couple of the nicest reviews I’ve received so far for Maya’s Vacation. But most importantly, I am revealing the winners of the...
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Fiction Bragging — Interview With Maya Holden
We are still on my first published book, Maya’s Vacation, in this week’s fiction bragging post, and we will be for a few more weeks — I did a number of interviews promoting it when it came out last...
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Interview Bragging — Promoting Maya’s Vacation
It has come. This is the last week I’m spending on bragging about Maya’s Vacation, my romance novella about a woman who has to decide if she wants to chance her heart on an old flame all while painting...
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Interview Bragging – Durham Magazine
After spending a month in Maya’s Vacation promotions, I’m switching gears to highlight some of my mentions and interviews for this very blog, the Gourmez, and the connections I’ve made with the wealth...
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Review of Bandido’s and Award Bragging — Carpe Durham and WRAL Out and About
It’s that time of the week again! This time, I have two food blogging items to brag about, both recent developments. First, Carpe Durham, one of the blogs I contribute to, was a finalist for the third...
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Fiction Bragging – Feature Friday at Astraea Press
After the publication of Maya’s Vacation, I took part in the first Feature Friday story for Astraea Press. Feature Friday is a collaboration among a bunch of Astraea Press authors to write an ongoing...
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Nonfiction Bragging – WRAL Review of Munchez (Durham) *CLOSED*
It’s been a while since I posted a bragging entry–I still have much to share! I haven’t even gotten to my Bull Spec story, Bother. But life gets busy, and when it does, the bragging falls off my list...
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Blog Break
Just a quick note to let you all know that the Gourmez will be on a bit of a hiatus. I’m going on a trip soon, and it’ll take me some time to catch up again once I return, though you can expect several...
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Winter Tales Reading: Come listen to me read!
Winter Tales Reading: Come listen to me read! This coming Thursday, I will be one of five speculative fiction writers participating in a reading on the topic of winter tales at the Orange County Public...
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Nonfiction Bragging: My Winning Cocktail, the Frosty’s Chocolate Orange...
Frosty’s Chocolate Orange Martini at the Washington Duke Inn For the month of December, you can order a cocktail of my very own creation at the Washington Duke Inn’s Fairview Dining Room and Bull...
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Winter Tales: The Readings
About a month ago, I took part in Winter Tales, a reading of holiday-themed works by local authors that was hosted by the Orange County Public Library in Hillsborough. Poems, essays, stories, and songs...
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Fiction Bragging: The 2013 Campbellian Pre-Reading Anthology
Published by Stupefying Stories, the 2013 Campbellian Pre-Reading Anthology is now available for free — that’s right, free! — for anyone interested in perusing the works of authors eligible for...
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Nonfiction Bragging: WRAL Village Burgers Review
I’m a little slow this time in letting you all know I have another review up at WRAL’s Out and About. Forgive me? This one was on Village Burgers, the hamburger joint inside the University Mall in...
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Review Bragging – New WRAL Post
I’m a little (a lot) behind on the times in that I’m just now posting this teaser here, and it was published about a month ago at WRAL‘s Out and About blog. Oops! My time from reviewing a spot/drink to...
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