Another year, another Book Fest done. Chatted with many fellow writers including the esteemed Pat Conroy, mingled with more than a few interested supporters of the festival and curious readers, and even managed to buy a couple of books myself. Always a good time. \
One of my favorite weekends of the year, it’s that time again for the SC Book Festival, an event that’s always been so good for my writing career. 2013 marks my fourth appearance as either a featured author, panelist or moderator. At this year’s edition you’ll be able to find me schmoozing tonight at the […]
Tonight at Columbia’s impressive Tapp’s Art Center, a new writing group here in town makes its first public offering with appearances by four local scribes: yours truly, Lorna Festa, Michael Spawn, and Janna McMahan, who’ll be appearing in support of her latest novel Anonymity.
One of the most complimentary reviews yet for Fellow Traveler comes from longtime Deadhead author, musician, Grateful Dead Hour and Tales from the Golden Road radio host David Gans, posted tonight on his blog. A choice pull quote begins the review: “Fellow Traveler is as worthy a document of the latter-day Grateful Dead experience as any I’ve read, fictional […]
Sort of like a state of the state/union address? Not so much, this; nothing so dramatic. No, at the beginning of a new creative season this is merely an update regarding the core of my creative output: my various completed novel manuscripts. As I’ve been on a what’s become a two week break from working […]
Six weeks after my agent Michelle L Johnson of Inklings Literary got an exciting flurry of new MS requests, it looks like DOGS OF PARSONS HOLLOW has pulled rejections from two of the four editors who took a peek. The upside? The other two that are still active are with the bigger publishers of the […]
I delivered this eulogy today (or at least a version thereof—another couple of amusing anecdotes and asides made their way into the discourse) to the assembled mourners at the memorial service for my childhood best friend and first writing partner Robert Jason Wright, who passed away this week after a difficult, courageous battle with throat cancer. His […]
So terribly pleased and proud to report today that the Fellow Traveler original notes, two early drafts, and the last pre-publication manuscript with handwritten corrections have all now been donated to the McHenry Library at UC Santa Cruz, where these documents will reside within the overall Grateful Dead Archive.
I’m pleased to report that a couple of days shy of my spring deadline I’ve completed a fresh revision, the fourth full draft, of LET THE GLORY PASS AWAY, a new manuscript I wrote last summer. I come to the end of this particular cycle of the creative process feeling that, for the moment, at […]
In the previous installment, we took a look at a newly sequenced, sort-of non-linked collection called PATTERNS OF RECOGNITION. This time, let’s take a gander at THE NIGHT I PRAYED TO ELVIS—the stories contained within its pages all concern the lives and growth of a rural Southern brother and sister, Timmy and Lucy (a/k/a ‘Sissy’) […]
