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Nov.03.2010
I finally followed through on a promise made months ago, and started capturing snippets of my new life in Manhattan on youtube.
Click to view at youtube (I moved from Denver July 12, after threatening to do it for a good thirty to forty years.)
The first installment is on my neighborhood on...
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Nov.02.2010
When asked how the business of novel writing works in today's economy, I'm almost irresistibly tempted to say it doesn't.
OK. Not really fair. It does. . .sometimes. But only for a fortunate few.
My first novel, Funerals For Horses -- published by the shortly-thereafter-defunct Russian Hill...
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Oct.12.2010
Many column inches, and TV horror shows, are devoted to the common plagues that infest the modern home: bedbugs, locusts, cockroaches, termites. Any of these aforementioned brutes can cause serious damage to the fabric and foundations of any house. In some cases, if infestation is bad, there may be...
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Oct.08.2010
My new lightweight lifestyle caught up with me this week.
When I moved to Manhattan in July, it was starting over, so I cut loose most of my Denver. I moved by plane: a one-way ticket on United, with two carry-ons, a checked bag and a box.
Sublets are great that way. The place I found is...
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Oct.05.2010
I really liked the interview. JK seems very grounded for a celebrity billionaire. Authentic, too.
My favorite part was actually hearing that her first book tour was very hit or miss. That gives me comfort.
Usually, promotional events on my calendar turn out pretty well....
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Sep.01.2010
Just as life goes on after disaster, so too does life go on after exultation. Barry Bonds: Baseball’s Superman was a critical and financial success. I became overconfident. My contract with Lloyd Robinson and Suite A Management expired in 2002. We remained friends. He agreed to represent me on a...
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Jun.28.2010
It is a truth universally acknowledged throughout the writing world that no writer ever makes a killing. It's just not a profitable industry, this. Most writers spend their lives hunched bitterly over cramped desks in the corner of their bedroom / living room, cursing the day they ever lifted up...
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Jun.20.2010
On Saturday, I went to meet some friends in town. Cheered on by the brightness under the blinds in the morning, I donned optimistic clothing: thin skirt, frippery blouse, cotton jacket (in case it got cold). I spent the afternoon hugging myself for all I was worth, freezing to death in the biting...
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Jun.08.2010
In life, there are small irritations and pet peeves that are more amusing than anything else. Case in point: why do people in other industries (where they are either successful or perceive themselves to be successful) assume they should suddenly become writers and can whip out a bestselling...
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May.02.2010
Bitterness, much like eccentricity and corpulence, appears to be somewhat of an occupational hazard for writers. Just as sitting on your rump all day writing is guaranteed to make you fat, and spending whole days inside your own head sure to make you a bit weird, the challenges writers face are...
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