by John Peragine In the last year, short story competitions have helped focus my writing. I read many short stories in elementary school and always enjoyed them, but I believed they were some condensed form of a larger work. I never thought of short-form writing as something special on its own. Fast forward to adulthood […]

by John Peragine One of the hardest things to do as a writer is to be organized and business-minded. We want to live within our worlds of fantasy and dare anyone or anything to break us away. I am one of the lucky few who can say that their day job is writing. It is […]

John Peragine   When a fellow writer finds out what I do for a living, they usually have a hundred questions. They span from how do I capture someone else’s voice, to how do I find leads. A common question I get is: "Does it ever bother me if that I don’t get my name […]