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So it was one of those “hey, why don’t you?” kind of moments. My wife and dedicated First Reader said to me, after the first fifty pages, “Why don’t you make a book trailer?” She explained the pieces she thought would make the cut and I agreed. A few months later, she repeated the same…
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If you have ears you might like to get down to Listowel tonight to hear Joseph O’Connor read at the writers’ festival this evening. https://writersweek.ticketsolve.com/mobile/shows/873514085/events
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So this is what I did today: As you can see, it hasn’t just been all fun and games and men in people’s nostrils. Bill still won’t let me talk to people, since I have 100 pages or so to edit. But this latest and near final draft is limping to that great finish line…
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Volume II, Issue 2 of The Oddville Press with my short story “The Man in My Nostril” is now out! I alluded to this the other day, but now everyone, including you, can now read this excellent issue from the hard-working bunch of folks at Oddville. Head to their website and their downloads page, which is linked above, or you can…
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I have only mentioned it briefly elsewhere, but now that I have the advance reader copy in my digital hand I suppose I can trust that they’re not lying to me and that they will actually publish the story. My short story, “The Man in My Nostril” will be published in Volume 2, Issue 2…
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I can’t remember who said it, but I read an author’s story, years ago, of how he kept motivated by making space for his as-yet-unpublished book on the bookstore shelves when he visited. He’d push aside the books to either side of the spot where his would go and just place his finger there for…
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A quick public service announcement to say that we’ve hit 190 and counting on the short story that has grown and grown like a force-fed chicken. Or a weed, for you vegetarians. And by ‘we’ I mean me, of course, and my agent, Bill, who has been holding a sawed-off shotgun at my head for…
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So the next batch of manuscripts have been sent off to the First Readers — I’m at the 150 page mark. It’s a little like painting a room. You put on the first coat. Take a break for lunch, let that first coat dry. Put on the second coat on one wall. Notice a spot…
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Well, youse fellas have already seen it, back at Christmas-time, but I figured, in honor of Saint Patrick’s very own day, I would re-publish (by just re-linking) my short story about Saint Patrick’s next trick, after ridding Ireland of all the snakes. So don’t waste any time, just go download “Saint Patrick’s Next Trick,” which…