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It’s been a long strange year. And it’s been a long, strange 20 years since I started Butterfly. Since then, we’ve invented gasoline, fire, Turkish delights, the mob, clip-on pants, and the NHL has still never figured out how to let their fans watch their games online when they really want to, legally. Butterfly became…
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It’s been a while since I’ve queried any agents and, for some reason, looking out over a wild and wooly lake in County Kerry, I decided to have one last crack at getting Trip to the Quiet Room into the hands of an agent. Well, the tools agents are using are really excellent now… I…
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So did you ever think, what would happen if I ever called that number for the butterfly ranch? It’s all a lark, right? Guerrilla marketing for a fictional service from a book that doesn’t exist in the real world yet that is struggling to ever see the light of day? It’s also, by…
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What could Old Sturbridge Village be hiding back there? Could it be a new barn, housing a secret project, one that would change the game for historical theme parks? Was that screaming you heard from the old saw mill? Or was it the funny lights from the old cooper’s shop, well after closing time? …
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If you’re one of my long-time readers who remember back to the Sane Magazine days, you will probably, without a doubt, love Michael Poore’s Resurrection Blues. I got a copy of this book from NetGalley (free books, how can you go wrong!). And Resurrection Blues blew my socks off. It blew them off, chewed them up,…
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Following on my last post, that ever hopeful sending off of actual pages to a literary agent, I was going through my submissions list when it dawned on me that I’ve been sending out packages to agents for Trip to the Quiet Room for a long-ish time*. For the curious (?), I use Tinderbox (yes, I…
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The latest packet is ready to be sent off, complete with patented EazyResponze(TM). Fingers crossed.
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The Globe carried an article recently about a Sports Illustrated article about Shawn Thornton’s retirement, one of those spiritual brothers of William Murphy of my novel, Trip to the Quiet Room. “I’m just enjoying the thought that I’m never going to have to get punched in the face ever again for the rest of my life. 
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I’m thinking I may need to re-think my strategy for submitting good old Trip to the Quiet Room to agents and publishers. I’m thinking of ditching the query letter altogether and going with pictures of cats reading books. Thoughts?