Author: Ron Koertge

I’ve been in and out of town a lot, some trips for fun, some not so much fun. But I taken STONER2 with me everywhere since my editor wants it as soon as she can get it. So I’ve worked on it sitting on a sick...

I just got back in town and went almost immediately to hear Tim O’Brian (THE THINGS THEY CARRIED) talk at the downtown library. One of the things he said was this — fiction, rather than explaining things, should...

I had dinner with a bunch of poets (A gaggle? A murder? A pod? A pride? A pentameter?) last night and while I was shuttling between the Academy Awards and the living room I was thinking about Marsha’s YA/Not YA dilemma....

So writers are wondering what to do with their gift. Their calling. Their avocation. The pull that art has over life. And, naturally, its opposite. The money we make and don’t make. The people we love who won’t shut...

I posted this on that Facebook/SMtP page my publicists set up for that book, but I’m contained by space there. Not here.I’m futzing around with these poems-about-the-Greek gods. All the Olympians and a few of their...