A haunting collection of seven character- and setting-linked stories set on one of the most spectacular and pristine places in North America: Block Island. Rhode Island. A story of how…
A dozen short stories that run the range from romantic fantasy to ghosts, vampires, and werewolves. Each story entertains and touches on the universal emotions created by the desire to…
In 2010, C. Jennings Penders began writing about his spiritual beliefs. In this volume, which gathers many of his writings in a single place, Mr. Penders shares his intimate insights…
C. Jennings Penders has been writing since he was in grammar school. Playing around with five hand written novels in the early 1980s, he always carried a pen and notebook wherever he traveled.
Joining his first writing group in 1989, he began seeing his short stories appear in the small press SF/F magazines in the early 1990s. In 2010 he stopped writing fiction and started a spiritual blog called Wisdom and Life.
Fiction called again in 2016-2017 and he he started writing about Block Island, one of his favorite places. Arrivals and Departures is the culmination of his Block Island fiction. A sequel completed in January 2022 is scheduled to be published in October 2023. C. Jennings is currently working on his fifth book. This one is set in the neighborhood he grew up in.
Wisdom and Life continues to be on hiatus until further notice. The only writing I’m doing at the moment is my fiction. Currently, I’m writing the sequel to Arrivals and Departures
Last month on July 29, I wrote Fiction is My Mistress. I have now decided that for the time being, until my new project is complete, I have to put CJPPhotoNews and Wisdom and Life into hibernation. Up until last November, I didn’t think I […]
This column contains Amazon Affiliate Links! As with last week’s column, Fiction is my Mistress, I’m again sharing snippets from short stories I’ve written in the past and am continuing to write as you read today’s column. This week I’m sharing […]
I’m still writing my Block Island stories and I’ll share some fragments from the new story I’m working on at the moment. Image from: Pixabay From Arrivals and Departures: In no particular order, here are four fragments 1. Sean strolled away then. […]
Last November at my Book Launch, someone in the audience asked if I would ever return to writing fiction At the time of the event and for years before I’d given up on fiction. I spent my writing time devoted to my […]