Today’s thought on poetry comes courtesy the realm of philosophy: “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music…. And people flock around the poet and say: ‘Sing again soon’—that is, […]
Author Laments Audacity of Rock Icons Whistling Past Their Own Graveyards When viewing such scenes as this ghastly phantasmagoric nightmare of seemingly animated corpses slopping through a 50+ year-old catalog beneath effigies of their recently dead drummer, the best musician in the band, I feel an unease leaning toward revulsion. If anyone’s got a […]
Local Author Discovers 50 Year-Old Truth-Drop in SF Novel I first read The Lathe of Heaven, a fine science fiction novel by the inestimable writer and thinker Ursula K. Le Guin, as a curious teenager and fan of such speculative fiction. I read the book after watching a television adaptation which had compelled my imagination, […]
Author Celebrates Release of Penultimate Novel Well, it’s decades in the making, it almost made me (more) famous, it nearly killed me to get right, but now Mansion of High Ghosts is in the world. I’ve never been more glad to be done with one of these projects, but at least I can say that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Author Knows of No Sweeter Feeling Than Being Ahead of Schedule The numbers don’t lie, a statement which in this era deserves a cynical snicker:
