It is a great thing that my writerly ego is larger than the Sahara Desert, because, though I tried, valiantly, to get our local library to host myself (and the kids! I used the cuteness of the kids as an application weapon!) during their local author day, I received word yesterday* that we were not…
So some of you out there may be doing something for NaNoWriMo. More likely than not writing. Or avoiding writing. Well, I’m not attempting to splurt 50,000 words into a document this year, but I wrote a tool, a long time ago now, to help you write a lot of words without fussing too much…
My kids have no idea that the Red Sox are not supposed to win the World Series every few years. My son was born a year or so after they won in 2004 and my daughter had the consideration to be born in between games of the 2007 World Series against the Rockies. And that’s…
All this talk of baseball writing and more got me on an archaeological kick the other day, through old Sane Magazine issues, and I found the original of “The Long, Dark Voyage.” So you can read the story that appeared in the excellent Fenway Fiction: Short Stories from the Red Sox Nation for FREE, at what used to…
Hey fellas. How are you doing? First off, thank you for the phone calls, faxes, emails, and cakes, all inscribed lovingly with the same message of support and care in the wake of my omission from the Batter Up! reading up in San Francisco on October 14th. But the folks at LitQuake, who seem very…
Update: No more: “LitQuake: Calling Off the Dogs” Friends, dear good, great friends. I have a favor to ask of you. Maybe two. “Oh God,” you’re saying, possibly aloud, drawing stares in the internet café in which you’re browsing Facebook. I’ve told you time and time again not to browse Facebook in internet cafés, but…
This edition of Dublin Express was a special Kickstarter limited edition Colin Bateman produced himself. [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/856843652/get-on-board-the-dublin-express] My favorites of the bunch were the title story, “Dublin Express,” “The Case of Mrs. Geary’s Leather Trousers,” which was the start of Colin Bateman’s novel Mystery Man, and the screenplay, “National Anthem.” They’re very typical Bateman humor, very…
So for the last… well, a long time. In February, 2011, after finishing the first draft of a novel entitled “Rudyard Kipling’s Chair” which is still sitting in a desk drawer somewhere, unwieldy and cumbersome and full of far too many characters and subplots, I was taking a break. Like practicing crop rotation for the…