Sunday in the park with Nietzsche
You gotta love a guy who sits around thinking up provocatively pithy (or pithily provocative) things to say at dinner parties. And I admire Nietzsche’s stated goal … Continue reading
Go Wes, young man
If you love jazz guitar, you love Wes Montgomery. It’s that simple. I never get tired of his remarkable improvisations, his rhythmic finesse, and his overall cool, which is on … Continue reading
Observations on marketing self-published books
Yesterday’s experiment in social shaming for personal gain was very interesting. I learned a lot. Not much that I learned will actually help me market my novel, but it’s good … Continue reading
Try some, buy some
Click me! I hate to do this, but I have to practice for my promotion of Yesterday Road, when it’s released next month. The clock, she is ticking! Anyway, I … Continue reading
The world’s strangest book? Quite possibly!
(Click image to enlarge) Since The Codex Seraphinianus is written in an indecipherable language and is illustrated with bizarre images of impossible things, why, yes, it could be the … Continue reading
Guest Post: Punctuation Haiku
Originally posted on Eric the Gray:
Not Kevin Brennan Writer and blogger Kevin Brennan really hates redundant quote marks following a certain word. So much so that he wrote haiku…
What’s your type?
Seems a fellow in St. Louis (my home town) has an art project going in which he has installed 40 typewriters all around the city and encourages passersby to type … Continue reading
Tempus fugit (boy, does it ever!)
Danielle, by Anthony Cerniello If you haven’t run into this yet, and you have five precious minutes to spare, watch another human being age 60 years before your eyes. Why? … Continue reading
Why do we do it? (Write, that is…)
There’s a new book out called Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do, edited by Meredith Maran. I would like to … Continue reading
‘Cause you had a bad day
(Via TPMLivewire) “The photo team confirms the frog is real and was captured in a single frame by one of the remote cameras used to photograph the launch,” NASA wrote … Continue reading
