ARYA'S WRITING & READING BLOG

Dear Fellow Authors and Readers: For your interest, here are some recent and upcoming publications:  " Gloria ," prose poetry , in Thorn & Bloom , Issue 3 " Venus On the Rocks ," a noir-inspired short short, in Screaming Beyond Borders anthology " Sarah Vaughan Performing ," poetry, audio and text, in Jerry Jazz Musician , 11/23/25 " Night Swim ," creative nonfiction , in Rockvale Review , 11/30/25 Detailed postings about these and other forthcoming publications will appear on my website, aryafjenkins.com . Thanks. And keep the love and inspiration coming by doing what you do and love best.  Recipe for writers :  Write, review, let sit, revisit and edit . Re-write, review, let sit, revisit and edit. Do it until there isn't a word you disagree with on either your worst or best day. Then, submit . Happy day, all!                                       ...

I finally did the thing I've been told I should have done long ago, which is probably why I didn't do it. I have an author's website . Most of my books are available through it, and I have to admit, Tertulia did a pretty neat job putting it together for me, although, of course, authors still have to do some work. It's $9.99/month, if you pay monthly--I opted for that--and $7.99 if you pay yearly, which means 20-percent off, I think. (Let me never be the one who pays more cheaply for anything!) You get two weeks free at the start if you are undecided.  I really thought I could bypass the presumed pomposity of an "author's website" by keeping everything on this blog, but the wave of writerly opinion says otherwise. So I'm going with the flow. We'll see if it makes a difference for sales. Who knows. My new website is via a domain that is mine for a year, procured through Stripe . Price for that was $15/yearly. Am I wrong to think the whole author...

  I joined a couple of friends, one of whom has a late October birthday we were still celebrating, to see Deliver Me From Nowhere , the Springsteen biopic starring the unforgettable Jeremy Allen White (of THE BEAR series , and before that, SHAMELESS series). To be honest, my expectations were not that high, as biopics often turn out to be slathering portraits mainly composed of colorful heaps of praise and lacking an equanimous lens, neither of which turns out to be true here. In retrospect, low expectations is probably the best way to go see a film. White's performance as Springsteen and acting in general I cannot say enough about. Both he and Springsteen have that same grounded, gritty vitality and ooze a similar kind of unvarnished, sexy masculinity. White is 32 and plays Springsteen when he was the same age, working on his sixth album, Nebraska (which came out in 1982), a time when he was plagued by demons from his past and a nagging depression. Deliver Me From Nowhere is a ...