Books & Literary Journals
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Writing in Place: Stories from the Pandemic (2020)
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Serial Magazine (2020)
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Crossing Borders (2020)
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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
“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
Essays
“Rediscovering Bicycles and Her Inner Kid,” Los Angeles Times
“Dusk Therapy,” The Ocotillo Review, 2019
“Dust 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
On Writers & Writing
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
