Author post Old Man Reading Out Loud, with Accomplices 25 Feb 201825 Feb 2018 Well, not all of you missed it--I mean last Friday's "Noir in NELA" reading at Jen Hitchcock's edgy little shop, called Book Show LA. The room was packed! Sure, it was…
Author post A Book by Its Cover: Advice for the Self-Published 19 Feb 201819 Feb 2018 If your work is to be produced by a trade publisher, the cover will be entirely out of your hands. This can be a good thing, and it can be…
Author post Poetry Run 10 Feb 201810 Feb 2018 So one has to take a break from the prosaic now and then...my "vacation" has been a return to my roots in poetry. Normally this would be a dangerous thing,…
Author post The Perils of Pals 9 Jan 20189 Jan 2018 Here is a tale--sadly, a true one--that I penned about twenty years ago. It's a story not so much of sailing as of sailors, especially weekend sailors and the innocence…
Author post When “Likes” Attract “Likes”–and Nothing Else 1 Jan 20182 Jan 2018 In electronics, the signal-to-noise ratio is the proportion of information carried in a transmission versus the hums, buzzes, and clicks in the carrier medium, be it radio waves or packet…
Author post Solstice 19 Dec 201719 Dec 2017 The latest in a series of poems in my new style, generally rummaging through existential despair and all that stuff.... forget the solstice it’s not a promise winter still waits,…
Author post Clause and Effect 11 Dec 201711 Dec 2017 Do you love subordinate clauses? I know I do. And how about assonance and alliteration, rhythm and rhyme? Let's face it: they can be as tasty as chocolate. But would…
Author post… Recursions, Part 9: “Finding a Form,” by William H. Gass 7 Dec 20177 Dec 2017 This is the ninth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post Transcending Place 2 Dec 201714 Jan 2018 Place is important in stories: while plots are (or should be) based on actions, actions have to take place in a place--the very phrase "take place" tells us that. Be…
Author post Two Views of Thanksgiving Gluttony 23 Nov 201723 Nov 2017 I must precede this with a snark alert. Read at your own risk! Yes, it's the time of year when folks complain about falling into tryptophan comas, or of having…
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