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…
I want to thank all of you who voted for Verano the Fish in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Unfortunately we didn’t make the cut for the semifinals, but we did gain a few new readers along the way. I’m busy trying to get a read-aloud version out, but our voice talent is a bit finicky pickety…
Listen, there’s only a few hours left, but there’s still time for you, yes, you, to go vote in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 for Verano the Fish for Best Picture Book. You can even download the book, for free, from Goodreads.com! This way you’ll possibly be even more informed than on the ballot where you…
Update: In the interest of ease-of-use, vote for Verano the Fish here: Best Picture Book category It’s that wonderful time of year again, the Goodreads Choice Awards season! This past year (according to the eligibility rules for the award, the year stretches from November, 2012 to November 2013 — this may be fallout from the Mayan Apocalypse) I’ve…
Get out and vote for Verano the Fish (you’ll have to write it in) for the Goodreads Best Picture Book of 2013, please: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-picture-books-2013 If you’re in Boston, you’re probably already in a voting mood, from the mayoral race, so why don’t you keep on exercising that freedom to show what you really love and care…
Michael Joyce is a master at evoking a sense of loss, memory and how unreliable it can be (the line from “afternoon, a story,” the seminal hyper fiction, is a great example: “I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning.”), and connections. When I read fiction by Joyce I’m most…
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…