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Crack the Spine originally published "Off the Curb" in their Issue 94, December 2013. The story was also included in the March 30, 2104 anthology. The magazine has sadly been archived, so I've reprinted "Off the Curb" here. "Off the Curb" by Tania Moore...
THE LOST SISTER, upmarket literary fiction, 94,000 words, is a story of secrets, betrayal, and the cost of saving a life. Rumer, 36, is made executor of her father’s estate. She has sixty days to reach her sister, Morgan, 37. But Morgan wants nothing to do with Rumer....
It took a long time to write a post about disappointment. It’s not a story I wanted to tell, but discouragement—and resilience—are part of a writer’s life. I hope that in sharing honestly my experience, I can shed light on an aspect of publishing that’s rarely spoken...
TRAVELING LIGHT, upmarket literary fiction, 85,000 words. June Colter, 17, equestrienne in the Byrd Family Circus, thunders around the ring on horseback as she yearns for a different life. She defies her parents by studying in secret, helped by Jeta, an aged...
You’ve finished your book and braved the querying trenches. You’ve signed with an agent who has begun the process of submitting your novel to publishing houses. The process can take months, with no guarantee that there will be a publication contract at the end of it....
Sometimes something happens that you’ve hoped and worked and waited for for so long, you can’t quite believe it’s real, or maybe it’s more that you’re afraid if you blink, it will go away. Maybe this happens when, for example, your children are born. One day they’re...
I’ve been busy scribbling away, writing the last chapters of Traveling Light, when I knew it couldn’t wait any longer. I had to visit the horses! I drove up to Montrose, NY on a drizzly Tuesday to visit my friend Will, his wife Beth, and their menagerie of chickens,...
I'm honored and thrilled that my short story, "West 256th Street and Valles Avenue" has been published in the 2018 empathy-themed issue of The McNeese Review. I couldn't be more pleased that my story has found a home within this collection of startling,...
I’m honored and delighted that The McNeese Review has accepted my short story, “West 256th Street and Valles Avenue” for publication in their spring issue! Founded in 1948, The McNeese Review is an annual publication of the MFA program in Creative Writing at McNeese...
Continue reading "The Day the Linden Fell," published online at Menda City Review, here.
My short story, “The Day the Linden Fell,” is live and online at Menda City Review! In the disembodied world of small press publishing, there is a fresh, subversive, forward-looking retro-hip beauty and audacity to Menda City Review that I've always wanted to be a...
Riverbabble, which published "Fairway" for their Seeing and Looking themed issue 31, Summer 2017, has sadly closed. I've reprinted "Fairway" here. “Fairway” by Tania Moore (approximate reading time 10 minutes) Alice stood in front of a display of broccoli, waffling...
