Deborah Grabien's Blog
RSS
May.06.2009
So. I have just finished creating the US public (and some school) library database. 1,447 libraries, including the huge consortia (CLEVnet in Cleveland, for instance).
If you could use this, and would like to buy the full (or cherrypicked, which is economically a lot more viable) set on...
Continue Reading »
2 comments
Apr.23.2009
72 pages. 14,709 words. Even It Up, moving right along. Enter Elaine Wilde, her band WildeChild, and, just as importantly, Martina (nicknamed Maret, pronounced mah-RAY), her twelve-year-old guitar prodigy daughter. Who is already staring at JP as if - says Bree - he were the Holy Grail.
Poor...
Continue Reading »
Apr.06.2009
So, I've known for awhile what the character story was going to be in Kinkaid 8 - it's why I planned to call it Comfortably Numb. Not going to give away the major storyline, but it deals with a seed planted in London Calling: after Cilla's death in the first book, John funds an addicton recovery...
Continue Reading »
Mar.20.2009
ADDENDUM: Good, he (or his handlers, or both - it doesn't matter beyond the result) knew immediately how appallingly he'd muffed it, and he rang the president of the Special Olympics and apologised. And the big difference between him and Shrub on this one is that, unlike Shrub, I believe Obama...
Continue Reading »
Mar.19.2009
So, all this week, the excellent author/essayist/anthologist Victoria Zackheim (why yes, my essay "Truth, in the Middle", did in fact appear in her excellent Seal Press anthology, For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance) is the guest blogger at...
Continue Reading »
Mar.04.2009
What's the first advice I'd offer new writers?
Well. I have my own basic rule, a sort of exasperated snort that comes from too much fragmented postmodern blahblah on the NYT review lists:
Tell me the story.
Really. It's just that simple. Give me a reason to care about your characters, and a road to...
Continue Reading »
Mar.03.2009
Red like a bright red shiny thing: ecoutez! The cover for While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Yes, I love it.
Continue Reading »
4 comments
Feb.21.2009
So, howsabout that Washington Whispers poll in US News & World Report? The one with the the bobbleheads of the four most powerful women in America, asking, which one of them would you pick to run a daycare center for your kids?
No, seriously. Not joking. I enjoyed crafting my response to it. I...
Continue Reading »
Feb.19.2009
Or, more accurately, a day in the life of actual, you know, people in the current economic crisis. And why this isn't going to get fixed.
Allow me to introduce Mr. and Mrs. G. They are tag-end boomers, in their early (in her case, about to be mid) fifties. Mr. G is an alpha geek in the world of...
Continue Reading »
Feb.18.2009
New Working in the world of words
Deborah Grabienwww.deborahgrabien.comauthor of the Haunted Ballad series, the Kinkaid Chronicles, five standalone novels, numerous short fiction and essays, and a lot of snippy opinions.
1. Editing my friend Jeannette's novel, which beautifully written and...
Continue Reading »
Jan.29.2009
So, New Boss called Rep-D Henry Waxman and told him to dump the paltry bit of the "stimulus" package earmarked for family planning.
Colour me unthrilled. And woefully unsurprised.
So far, he gets very high points from me for doing the easy stuff: reversing the worst of Shrub's crapola by...
Continue Reading »
Jan.20.2009
Not sure how to actually imbed a link, here. But let's try the traditional method:
<a href="http://greenmanreview.com/cd/cd_fairport_liegeandlief.html">My Green Man piece on Fairport Convention's classic album, Liege & Lief.</a>
If the link doesn't work, try just clicking...
Continue Reading »
2 comments
Jan.20.2009
Hey, it looks like the new administration's handlers noticed a few of us non-believers getting cranky, out there in Faceless Demographicland:
""For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-...
Continue Reading »
Jan.14.2009
I am, much to many peoples' annoyance/consternation/dismay, very much not a supporter of Barack Obama. Really, seriously, ever so very not. I am enough of a not-supporter that I left the Democratic Party after 35 years when it became clear Kennedy, Reid and Dean - known around chez Grabien as...
Continue Reading »
7 comments
Jan.04.2009
The Great American To Do List
aka, Deb's projects that Need To Happen. In no particular order:
1.Start the seventh Kinkaid Chronicle, Even It Up. I now have all the tour data for the Fog City Geezers, and they're going to be living in a Nickelback song for half the book: "I want a new tour bus...
Continue Reading »
4 comments
About Deborah
Deborah Grabien is a cook, guitar player, cat rescuer, traveller, and all-around rocker chick. She also writes a little: she's the author of the Haunted Ballad series (St. Martins Minotaur), six standalone novels, and the Kinkaid Chronicles, the first of...
Connections
Causes Deborah Grabien Supports
EMILY's List (early member), Amnesty International (member on two continents for thirty years), Animal Welfare causes (we rescue feral cats), NARAL and...