Been a long while...

It has been so crazily long since I have updated my blog.  I keep putting "blog post" in all-caps at or near the top of my to do list, hoping that it will magically give me the motivation to tackle the small task that for some reason always seems so monumental. 

So, I decided that at the very least I would update any loyal readers that I may have on the recent publications that I have had.  I started typing the list nearly a month ago and still never came back to finish the post.  (and even now as I restart it, I have opened a new word file, read my twitter feed, responded to an e-mail...  What is it about blogging that makes me avoid it so?)

At any rate, on to the publishing updates:

My first published piece of creative non-fiction:  http://www.kysoflash.com/RussellSummer.aspx

Also from the second issue of Kysoflash, two micro fiction pieces...  http://www.kysoflash.com/RussellTrappings.aspx
http://www.kysoflash.com/RussellParaguay.aspx

A few poems on The Sundial Review (click on the titles to see the full poems)  http://thesundialreview.com/author/ccrussell2015/

A few poems of mine on Snapping Twig:  http://snappingtwig.com/tag/poetry-by-cc-russell/

An older poem that I didn't post last time, but one that I still quite like (in a journal that was pretty amazing at the time)...  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v4/i1/g/russell.html

My prose poem "Spun" opens the second issue of Unbroken:  http://unbrokenjournal.com/current-issue/

Five poems of mine in Bottlec[r]ap:  http://bottlecrap.com/story.php?storyID=45

I think that about covers the recent publications.  Some work coming up on Softblow and Queen Mob's Teahouse and a few print mags (Grasslimb, Lilliput Review). 

If anyone is reading this and you don't follow me on twitter, I'm @c_c_russell there and I tend to update whenever I have a new publication.  I try and tweet other witty things, but I typically delete them before hitting the "tweet" button because I'm neurotic like that.

Reading right now:

Limbs Get Led Astray by Chloe Caldwell.  Loving it.  Loved Women by her and now this. If for nothing else, I am thankful to Twitter for introducing me to so many great new writers and presses.  Caldwell is probably my favorite new find, though.  She's teaching me that essays can be so much more than I ever thought they could.  I'm sure that there are a million others out there being fresh and brutally honest in the form, but she's my baptism into the "new essay" and I am fine with that. 

Together, Apart by Ben Hoffman.  Really great collection of little fiction.  I just recently found out about Origami Zoo Press, but I'm a bit in love with what they publish.

Oh, and even though they crushed my heart with a rejection recently, everyone should definitely check out cartridgelit.com - amazing writing about and around video games.  It may sound corny, but they're publishing some freaking fantastic work.  Definitely check out Sam Martone's chapbook there if nothing else.

I will end this not by making a promise to update this more often, but only by saying that I will try.   Thanks to anyone reading.  It is most definitely appreciated.