Gotham, me, and dark Swedish mysteries
My Gotham online class started today! Which means, basically, the tech guy opened the web floodgates and I can see what's been posted so far: the class roster, the "lecture" [...]
Diversion!
A small diversion to distract us from the fact that it is only Tuesday."I Write Like," a game of writerly wishful thinking.Book The First scored a James Joyce. Book The [...]
Maybe a little cranky
Writers, go read this, and then come back.I'll wait.La la la...The girl from Ipanema...You didn't go read it, yet, did you?Do it.OK, you're a writer, you've read the post over [...]
And another story!
My story, "Man Remade," is up at Stirring. Whatever you're doing, wouldn't you rather be reading a short story?
You Arrive at Plan B
"You Arrive at Plan B" was the first place winner of the Dallas International Book Fair short story contest in 2008, originally published in Al Amanecer ("At Dawn"), a literary [...]
I’m a Mystery Writer of America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Mystery Writers Receive the 2010 Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship New York, NY - Mystery Writers of America is pleased to announce the two recipients of the 2010 [...]
More good news, and a small rant directed at myself
So a while back, I had a post up with some good news in it, and then took it down because I heard from someone at the good news-giving organization [...]
Winning some and losing some
I got asked to teach a class at my alma mater today. And had to say no.It's a timing thing. I have a full-time job, and I just can't swing [...]
Nope.
I stopped reading a book this weekend after about 40 pages because one character—a lawyer in 1860s New York—said to an 11-year-old child who works to support his sick mother—ALSO [...]
Dentist humor
At the dentist's office, I tripped in the doorway to the chair. Turns out there was a nail sticking out of the threshold. So he goes and gets a hammer [...]
