The book media has started to pick up on the novel, or at least the signing of the deal. It’s early yet, but it’s nice to know people are taking notice. I also like the very short synopsis ECW came up with: Waiting for the Man is about a dissatisfied copywriter who becomes a media sensation by […]
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The Media Starts Here
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Tagged book, ECW press, forest for the trees, Galleycat, novel, Quill & Quire, Waiting for the Man
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This is my signature on my new book contract (signed this morning)
Yes. It is done. I signed on the proverbial dotted line. For the novel. More news to come. If I said I wasn’t relieved I’d be lying. See this space for more information soon. What kind of information? Like the publisher. And the pub date. Stuff like that. The deets as we say. Who’s we? […]
Ask Me Anything
This Monday, September 3, 2012, at 9:00 PM (eastern time), I am going to answer questions online. You should start posting them right now on VYou (by clicking here). I will answer all of your questions I, especially the dumb and aggressively obnoxious ones. So start your Labor Day weekend by asking me a question. […]
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Another Drunken Paper Puts Me on A List Made Up of People Who Tweet
Pity the Brits. Losing the Euro on penalty kicks (surely the most dastardly invention ever devised to solve a sporting event). Suffering through a summer of epic rain (no really, we all joke about the British weather but this year’s rain is breaking their records). Preparing for the Olympics with that English mixture of fatalism […]
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Tagged Andy Murray, Britain, England, Euro, gin and tonic, Rain, Scotland, Stanley Cup, Sunday Times, Toronto Maple Leafs, Twitter
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Matchbook Stories
What happens when you about double the character count in a Twister? I don’t know. That sounds like nuclear physics. In the writing sense, however, you get a “matchbook story” – and apparently that’s what I’ve done. However, I don’t see any matchbook. Publishing a short story on a matchbook cover? That’s cool. Or it […]
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Tagged fire, matchbook story, nuclear physics, Publishing, Twitter
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Twitter on the Radio
I recently did an interview with CKUT here in Montreal. You can link to the interview here. I appear at the 43 minute mark (approximately). The interview runs for about 12 minutes. I talk about Twitter, about writing and social media, about the changes in writing and The Writer brought about by the immediacy of […]
New Short Story at Joylandmagazine.com
Joyland is a great online fiction magazine that edits regionally. What does that mean? Different cities have different editors and they all publish stories to create the magazine. Anyhow, I have a new short story up, published today (link here). This is the story that was a finalist for the Sidney Prize, though it’s been […]
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Tagged Joyland, Shindig, short story, Sidney Prize, The Border
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Come to A Virtual Reading
Yes. This is an invitation. I told you recently that a short story I had written had been a finalist for the Sidney Prize. Well, I didn’t win. But that’s not the point of this. Shindig is a new kind of website that wants to become, well, a lot of things – in the manner […]
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Tagged April 25, invitation, Joyland, joylandmagazine, reading, Shindig, Sidney Prize
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I Make an Appearance in an Indian Magazine
There’s a whole lot of Bollywood stuff here. And then some people who sound smart. And then there’s me. Oh well, someone’s got to bell curve smart things. Now, I want to know who all the ladies in these graphs are. And, frankly, what the graphs mean. Someone enlighten me.
