What could possibly promulgate more misinformation than a social media platform with algos designed to promote groupthink through the throttling or sharing of select information? The gatekeepers are corporate social messengers, all right, and the message they promote cannot be trusted. Resist.
Author Teases 2022 Memoir with Another Chapter Drop Nothing blew my mind like an amazing 1987 college trip to New York with Dr. Franklin Ashley, my first college writing mentor, who carried his young scribes up to the big city for the long weekend of their lives.
Need some help getting kick-started this week? Here you go. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could […]
Yep. An indie author with a title he hopes may exhibit evergreen tendencies will occasionally slap on a fresh cover and call it springtime again. My own catalog, as King’s Highway and Fellow Traveler will both attest, is no exception to this phenomenon.
An excerpt from the upcoming memoir Shopkeep, a draft of which cools in the drawer before we start taking it apart and putting it back together again later this year. I suspect we’ll bring it out late next year as part of the Loose Lucy’s 30 year anniversary PR push. This is one of the […]
The Tale of Expanding an Old Magazine Piece Almost a dozen years ago, one of my many writing-journey thrills and accomplishments came in the form of a co-written international magazine cover story.
Author Transubstantiates Depression into Stark Megalomania No question I have put in the ‘time’ to achieve all which now lies before me. A nice little shelf of books, as I keep saying. But more than mere quantity—I managed to manifest literal dreams.
Author Laments Latest Bout of Postpartum Depression “Well,” as one character in Mansion of High Ghosts says after a particularly vivid incident, “that happened.” In the case of the novel in question, the “event” now unfolded took its time—twenty years. But as of June 2021, it’s done and in print. A rocket once bound for […]
Author Calls First Draft of Latest Opus ‘Complete’ It’s still Winter 2021, but I’m done with the draft of my memoir Shopkeep. That’s well ahead of the target deadline of ‘sometime in the spring,’ which is no way to set a deadline. In fact, it’s completely antithetical to the method I teach my writing students, […]
Gen X calls bullshit on your narrative. Why is this? Because we were left alone to figure it out on our own. And have come out all the better for it.
