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Local heroes
“I know these woods.” Robin Hood, in Robin and Marian I know something of rural New York, which makes me biased toward regional writers who set their stories there. I know those woods. Place matters....
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My review policy
Writing a book is hard. If anyone doubts this, try it. Never mind questions of quality. It is enormously difficult to achieve even ugliness, especially at the beginning. The ones who persist in their...
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Circling back
As I work on the story cycle involving Green Town (an homage to Ray Bradbury, there), I am finding myself drawn to writers and books I liked when I was young. Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Marguerite...
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Quick! Ten books that you can’t forget
The idea is to write down ten titles fast, without thinking much about it. Here are my ten, in no particular order: Turtle Diary Something Wicked This Way Comes Dandelion Wine King of the Wind A Golden...
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Music to write by
Everyone has their favorites, but I prefer music that stays in the background. Soundtracks can be excellent, because they are composed to play under the action. If you are working in a reflective mood,...
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Stranded cows
I read Eric Hodgins’s autobiography, Trolley to the Moon. That is because I liked his other two books and blogged about them: Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Blandings Way In Trolley to the Moon is...
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Green Town, or Imagination on Fire
My next project is a story cycle, eight or ten of them presenting different takes on a single event: the arrest and imprisonment of an eighteen-year-old girl falsely accused of witchcraft. The time is...
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Clear Skies, Deep Water review at Huffington Post
Hey, I wrote a review that just went live in the Books section of the Huffington Post. A pretty cool thing on this pretty nice Friday. The book—Clear Skies, Deep Water: A Memoir of Chautauqua—is a...
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Writing is not a Zero Sum Game
Wise words, especially in light of certain recent public meltdowns. Writing is not a Zero Sum Game.Filed under: The writing life
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Blogging at medium.com
My first blog at medium.com: Ambition and the Indie Author This one is for the writers.Filed under: Self-publishing, The writing life Tagged: ambition, Self-publishing, vocation
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Goodreads good giveaway sale
Five print copies of Warning: Something Else Is Happening were up for grabs between February 7 and February 20 at Goodreads. A total of 726 people entered. That is a lot! Most US writers limit the...
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Functional immortality and other innovations
In the Silicon Valley Business Journal is an article about Google engineering director and accomplished futurist Ray Kurzweil. He believes that by 2040 we will have functional immortality. I assume...
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Digital Book Today on my birthday
February 7 is my birthday, and Digital Book Today has given me a gift: Its editors chose today to run a blog of mine. The blog, which originally was posted here, is called “Lewis Carroll on Social...
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Russell Hoban: with love and thanks
Reblogged from karenatstepney: Russell Hoban - it amazes me how some people still say 'Who?' Where to start with him? I was lucky. When I was 18, my English teacher literally threw her copy of The...
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Happy birthday, Russell Hoban
I am part of a group called The Kraken, who are fans of novelist Russell Hoban (1925-2011). Every year on his birthday, February 4, the Kraken a great thing: Each of us writes a Hoban quotation on...
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“A room that so achingly missed its owner”
Paul Cooper is the archivist with the job of curating the work of writer Russell Hoban (1925-2011). He writes brilliantly about the process in Archiving Russell Hoban’s Work. Almost in passing, he...
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A million words a year?
I blog at Published Indie Authors about why a million words a year wouldn’t work for me as a goal. I also work in mention of my favorite hack, crime writer Erle Stanley Gardner, who wrote more than a...
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Interview with Author Lindsay Edmunds
Reblogged from jemsbooks: Welcome to another Interview an Author. It is my sincere pleasure to interview Lindsay Edmunds, talented author of Warning: Something Else is Happening. It is so nice to...
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Guest Author Lindsay Edmunds
Reblogged from Chris The Story Reading Ape's New (to me) Authors Blog: Starting Out in the Evening What do you do in middle age when you find yourself bored with your career and at loose ends...
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Drawing on my past for futuristic settings
Thanks to the generosity of novelist Mary Pat Hyland, I am guest blogging this week at The Hylander Diner. The subject is a source of inspiration I’ve never talked about before: how places I’ve lived...
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