In the fall of 2024, I attended a California Writers’ Club meeting in Pacific Grove, CA. My friend David Harris—president of the San Francisco Peninsula branch and a fellow member of my critique group—was there to share his wisdom on getting published with the Pacific Grove crew. I landed a front-row seat and struck up a conversation with a guy, David Olsen, two chairs down who wrote horror and mystery. He asked what I wrote.

When I said I was working on a collection of surf stories, along with pieces about AI and robots, he lit up. “I like surf stories,” he said. Turns out, he was the editor-in-chief of Kelp Journal, a literary magazine based in Pebble Beach.

I later submitted a piece called Time to Surf, inspired by a moment surfing the Pump Station break at Pacifica State Beach. I’m thrilled to share that the story has been accepted and was just published in Issue 13, which was released this month.

Check it out on Amazon and Kindle here.