It’s finally, at long last, happened (I credit the chicken that I sacrificed the other night in a vat of boiling water with onions, carrots, leeks, and more)! I have signed with I.F. Raud Literary Agency LLC, whose illustrious clients include J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, Lenny the Bowler, Dan Brown, and Danielle Steele. Butterfly, a…
Michael Joyce, he of the “no longer maintaining a web presence” fame (oh, and afternoon, a story, and Twilight, a Symphony, The Sonatas of Saint Francis, and Going the Distance, and, and and), once compared my latest novel to Haruki Murakami (“Murakami in Massachusetts,” specifically). Well, I’ve yet to start an agony uncle column/website like Murakami, but…
NB. Title shamelessly borrowed from Paul Swydan for the Boston Globe. I figured, since I’ve written three (at least) stories about the Red Sox, I had something of a connection and authority to speak on the lineup for the 2015 Red Sox. Especially seeing as each year one of our anthologies (Fenway Fiction, Further Fenway Fiction,…
So Butterfly, a novel is about more than just hockey and people beating each other, and ultimately themselves, senseless. It’s also about Old Sturbridge Village, a 19th century New England village. Anybody who grew up in Central Massachusetts in the 80s probably visited the Village three, four, a dozen times on school field trips. Well, if you’re…
Charles Pierce has an addition to the literature on athletes and concussions with an article on one of my favorite active players, Patrice Bergeron. I always enjoyed Pierce’s columns for the Boston Herald and his work for the Globe and would seek him out — he’s a fellow Worcesterite*, Saint John’s Pioneer. After all Patrice…
Butterfly, a novel is a book. It comes with words for reading and very few pictures, if any. When one of my first readers gave me feedback one of their comments was “I can easily see this being a movie, and I know exactly the soundtrack!” Well, the book is hardly a book, yet, so let’s…
As I’ve said before, these guys are on fire. The Supertart kids have launched a brand new social network, my own personal author scoreboard, and now they’ve shipped a little project we worked on together back in the Spring a few years ago. It’s called the Subliminal Signal Detector and it’s based on a passage…
Those damn cute kids at Supertart.com have done it again. They’ve launched a social network, and now they’re dipping into the Author Scoreboard market, I suppose. These are, yes it’s true, my current stats, with regards to queries sent out, responses I’ve received, and responses IÂ haven’t received. I’m not quite sure how it works that…
Perhaps inspired by Ello and the rise of a myriad of alternative social networks which promise to right all the wrongs of the previous generation of social networks, my buddies and bunch of scamps at Supertart.com (inventors of the Price of Tea in China calculator) have launched their own social network. It’s likely going to be…