Howzit! Chy check out my new book and what the critics are saying with this review from the venerable Book Editor over on Maui:
http://www.mauiweekly.com/the_bookshelf/story4914.aspx
This book actually started out in third person, in a writing class I was taking from Harry Petrakis @ SFSU. This was my first prose writing class in graduate school and boy did I struggle just trying to craft the opening paragraph. Over time I realized my strength was first person so I changed my first story in that class around about a year later. It was difficult for me to make the adjustment from poetry to prose, but I'm glad I did. Professor Petrakis was instrumental in teaching me how to edit...edit...edit. He told me former students called him THE BUTCHER because they got so many red marks on their workshoped stories from him. Yes, I got the red treatment too! :-)