I have started writing my next novel. I’m not making an announcement, just saying it, in a non grand way (well, why say it at all? you may ask and you would be right to ask it). But after a good six months – it’s more than that, but I’ve been rather single minded the […]
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Tagged agent, character development, novel, Pets, preparation, procrastination, puppies, Thai beef salad, torture, writing
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My Very First Stupid Insignificant Tweet
Twitter has been rolling out personal archives to all users and I recently received mine. This is my first tweet (and it’s not what I remember): And this is my first Twister (which I do remember): In the past, I’ve said that just a few days passed between my first tweet and my […]
The Thing You Should Never Ask A Writer
Writers get asked a lot of questions. Successful writers get asked a lot more questions. Very successful writers get to charge people for asking questions. And amazingly successful writers don’t have to answer any questions at all. All questions are valid, even dumb ones. Yes, there are stupid questions, and stupid people, and sometimes the […]
Not Another Year in Review Masquerading as a Year in Review Review Thing
I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I haven’t in a long time. I’ve pretty much kept the last resolution I ever made: to never eat green peppers again. Green peppers are filler in bad Chinese food (that is “bad bad” Chinese food and “bad good” Chinese food and not “good bad” Chinese food) and gum […]
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The Endless Road to Publishing
I’m pleased to announce that my novel, Waiting for the Man, will be published by ECW in spring 2014. How did we get here? Well. It’s quite possible that there are sentences in this novel that are older than my son. Very few of them but I wouldn’t doubt it. My son is 12 years […]
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And Then It Gets Cold
The geese are flying south. Frost crunches underfoot. The trees glow red and orange. The stupid NHL is stupid. The old Expos make the playoffs and are eliminated in rather spectacular fashion (something I had asked for last week – because I am a small and petty man – and something I might have found […]
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Tagged autumn, design, Expos, Facebook, fall, frost, Ian Rankin, MLB, NHL, Publishing, scratch, The Guardian, Twitter, Washington National
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Explaining the Noodle
I changed my Twitter homepage set up. Because I could. I’m not crazy about the design, and frankly, I’m never on the Twitter website itself because YOU DON’T NEED TO BE but I changed the image because I wanted to express myself, I guess, without getting too Madonna about it. (Not that there’s anything wrong […]
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The New Book Business
Here’s the thing. Yes, every writer should be pleased to be free of the shackles of the publishing industry. If you consider the industry to be like a bunch of evil plantation owners enslaving the poor writers of the world. It’s not, of course, but it is an industry and as in any industry it’s […]
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Pretty sure this should be my epitaph
Because it’s a pretty good one. (Though truth be told, I’m going to be cremated….hopefully not anytime soon)
