Books & Literary Journals
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Coolest American Stories 2022 (2022)
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Palm Springs Noir (2021)
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Writing in Place: Stories from the Pandemic (2020)
(Editor, Contributor)Debuted on Amazon at #4 in essays, #19 in short stories
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The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine (2021)
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Serial Magazine (2020)
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Crossing Borders (2020)
Winner of the 2021 San Diego Book Award
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Shotgun Honey Volume 4: Recoil (2020)
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USA Noir (2013)
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Orange County Noir (2010)
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Knitting Through It (2008)
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The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing (2003)
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Conversations with Clarence Major (2002)
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Videos
USA Noir
Barbara’s story, “Crazy for You,” that was published in 2010 in Orange County Noir is included in USA Noir: Best of Akashic’s Noir Series, released November, 2013. The new anthology includes short stories by some of the greats in the suspense field: T. Jefferson Parker, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, and more. Details and purchase information ».
Watch a video trailer for USA Noir:
Stories and Poetry
“Blue Martini,” The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine, April 2021
“Doors” and “Sea Change,” The Literary Hatchet, Issue #28
“One’s Company, Two’s a Crowd,” Writing in Place: Stories from the Pandemic (Mars Street Press)
“Meditation at Laguna Beach,” Broad River Review, Vol. 52
“Pink Aviary,” Rock and a Hard Place
“Making Peanuts in Nevada,” The Literary Hatchet, #27
“Hunting Season,” Serial Magazine
“Future on Mars,” Beach Reads: Adrift, (Third Street Writers)
“Noise,” Shotgun Honey, Vol. 4 Recoil, (Down & Out Books)
“Pool Fishing,” Crossing Borders, (Down & Out Books)
“Hunting Season,” Paradigm Shifts, (Cold Dog Press)
“Message in a Bottle,” The Big Click
“Crazy for You,” USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series
“Crazy for You,” Orange County Noir, (Akashic)
“Quickening,” The Oyez Review (Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL)
On Writers & Writing
Author’s Guild: Books to Screen
Author’s Guild: Busier Than Ever: In The Time of Covid-19
Author’s Guild: Romancing Rejection
Author’s Guild Bulletin: Why We Write What We Write
Cutbank Literary Magazine: A Conversation with Janet Fitch
Shotgun Honey: 9 Questions with Gary Phillips
Author’s Guild: 11 Over 70: Writers Who Persevere
Los Angeles Review of Books, “Second Chances: The Essays of Martin J. Smith” (book review)
Orange Coast: Hall of Fame Songwriter Paul Williams Finds Relaxation in Orange County
Author’s Guild: Tap, Tap, Click
Author’s Guild: The Enemy Within
Author’s Guild Bulletin: Agent & Author Roundtable
Los Angeles Review of Books: Victoria Patterson Discusses “The Little Brother”
The Writer: Writing Noir
The Writer: Demystifying the Auction
Poets & Writers: Agents and Editors: An Inside Look at the Working Relationship
The Writer: Set Your Writing Free
Westways: The Write Stuff: A Guide to SoCal’s Literary and Book Festivals
Writer’s Digest: Waiting to Exhale
Essays
“Rediscovering Bicycles and Her Inner Kid,” Los Angeles Times
“Dusk Therapy,” The Ocotillo Review, 2019
“Dusk Therapy,” Antarctica Journal
Inlandia Journal: Dusk Therapy
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: Rediscovering bicycles, and her inner kid
Belle Ombre: Love Thy Neighbor’s Trees
Beach Reads 2019: Paradise
Beach Reads: Images of My Mother
Orange Coast: Putting Down Roots
Orange Coast: Underneath It All
Orange Coast: The Late Bloomer
Orange Coast: Crow’s Feet and Cleavage
Orange Coast: A welcome but unexpected peek into an unraveling life
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: Out of Sight but Never Out of Mind
