Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cool stuff on 24 April 2008 | No Comments »
Kim’s done a complete overhaul of her website. Surf on over and look around. She’s put up a biography (with pics), and all kinds of juicy tidbits about her various books, including Ruby’s Imagine, which is coming out in a few months. She’s also got some big name writers (like Alice Hoffman and Jane Yolen) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged shameless self promotion, the writing life on 21 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Click on the “Other Writing” tab at the top of the page and you’ll find a list of all my published short stories, poems, articles, and reviews. Also links to my previous blogs. I put this together yesterday. It was strange going through my files looking for all these items. Many many pieces I have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 100 words, perils series on 18 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sure I was lucky. I knew it. I’d won the genetic lottery. I had a pair of working wings growing out of my shouler blades. I kept them folded up under my shirt so no one knew. It was a delicious secret. I never showed anyone my wings. I used to fly around at night. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged quotidian on 16 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
First of all, that’s not a picture of me at the top of the page. It’s the penguin who appears in one of the illustrations for Terrastina and Mazolli. He and I extend a hearty welcome to everyone who has migrated from my blogger blog, and to anyone else who has stumbled on this little [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged borges on 15 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Regular readers of my various blogs will know of my high regard for the works of Jorge Luis Borges. Here are some random bits of trivia about this singular writer:
1. In later life he tried to buy up all the copies of his earliest works because he believed them to be inferior and embarrassing to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cool stuff, quotidian on 14 April 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve got a bunch of science fiction digest magazines I don’t want anymore. They have been in boxes for seven years and I have not once felt the urge to open any of those boxes, which reminds me of that rule for getting rid of stuff: If you haven’t used something in two years, you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged the writing life on 13 April 2008 | 4 Comments »
Title: One Night and a Thousand Nights. Setting: The edge of the world. The Earth is flat. Some disaster in the interior (super volcano? massive drought?) has forced most of the population to migrate to the edge. Plot: We follow several people as they try to cope with life on the edge. Each chapter [...]
