Tag: Writing
One More Quote
From Jules Older, The Writer’s Lifeguard: “Job applications used to routinely ask you for your hobbies. I always proudly answered, ‘None.’ I’m a man with goals and dreams, passions and projects, not hobbies. Real writers don’t do hobbies.”
Literary Cartridges
What famous short story do these two very distinctive cartridges represent?
Book Signing!
Dutch Salmon and I will be signing at an afternoon- long event in Deming, on Saturday 15 December, at the bookstore of “dog- in- laws” Dan and Margaret. Be there!
Autumn– and October Country
Ray Bradbury- who despite his virtues was NOT a typical science fiction writer as one young girl memorably sang, though arguably great. (Google “F me Ray Bradbury YouTube”) Chad Love muses on this and after a suggestion I made last year prints one of the all time best opening lines: Thesis: as Tom Russell is …
Writing Life
I love the writer’s life and would not have another, but I sometimes think we are envied by people who would never voluntarily work for what we do or tolerate the uncertainty of our profession– if one can even call it that. Chad at Mallard of Discontent had a tough patch, wrote about it, and …
Official Self Promotion
Blowing my own horn here, as we must once in a while lest the publishers abandon us: Eternity of Eagles is officially out, I have had my first signing at the Tattered Cover in Denver (thanks, Jeff Lee!), and it has its first Amazon review, by Tom McIntyre. Pictures and excerpt below… Tom: “An Eternity …
McIntyre’s Snow Leopard’s Tale
At VERY long last Thomas McIntyre’s Snow Leopard novel is out. I have waited longer for it than I have ever for any other book. Long story… First, let me quote my own recommendation– I pared it down to say exactly what I wanted to: “McIntyre’s tale may have predecessors, but it is unique. I …
Crab Diaries
A new one for the blogroll: Crab Diaries, the serious, scary, witty, and laugh- out- loud funny journals of… well, she prefers to remain anonymous for now; let us just call her “My friend the Oncologist” and add, since she reveals this in a particularly funny post, that she is a (we met because she …
Far Away and Long Ago
Me “teaching” at Wildbranch Writing Workshop, Sterling College, in Craftsbury Common, Vermont; 1990- what? Dark(ish) hair anyway! Janisse Ray (right of me, black vest) and Kansas poet H C Palmer (balding head toward camera) needed little but encouragement…