Here's the short version, off the back cover of my first book:
Al Sim has lived in ten American locales, including one US territory. He has had over twenty jobs that lasted longer than a day and at least three that did not. He is married and has two children. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications.
Among those publications are: Glimmer Train Stories, the Greensboro Review, The Literary Review, Portland Magazine, Terrain.org, New Millennium Writings, Projected Letters, Crab Creek Review, Saint Ann's Review, South Dakota Review, Fourteen Hills, and Antietam Review. I've won a Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award and a Silver Rose Award, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Stories in the Old Style
My first book is Stories in the Old Style, published by Press 53. According to Bill Roorbach, Author of Big Bend, The Smallest Color, and Temple Stream:
Stories in the Old Style harkens back to the days of Cannery Row, of Jack London, to the splendid era of American realists. Al Sim's people are the people Johnny Cash sings about, whether the setting is the great Southwest or Soho in New York City. And these are the people who make America such a complex and bedeviled place. So turn off the electric lights, unplug the phone, shoot your TV, and sit down in the easiest easy chair you've got: it's time to enjoy Stories in the Old Style.
Ashes in the River
Included in Stories in the Old Style are three pieces set in Los Huertos, a fictional village in the American Southwest. I'm currently finishing work on my next book, Ashes in the River, a novel-in-stories centered on the lives of two characters in this village: Chuy Sandoval, an adobe worker, and his best friend, Rico Lupe, a bar owner. Seven of these stories have been accepted for publication, by the Greensboro Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Projected Letters, Chiricú, South Dakota Review (two stories), and Lynx Eye.
