Category: Crazy People

  • Fooling Around

    My friend Brooke is helping me do a lot of the local promotion and publicity for my book. The girl knows virtually everyone you need to know around this place to get things noticed, and so my publicist at Bantam sent her a box of books the other week to help when getting in touch…

  • Days go by

    Ugh, this is sort of agonizing, waiting waiting waiting for my book to come out.  For months, even after all the work with Bantam was done for putting it together, it was this distant thing in my mind.  But now its presence just keeps looming nearer and nearer.  Rick Bowes told me that every writer…

  • Don’t give a damn

    Apparently the Republican debate via YouTube is back on.  At first the candidates complained about it and thought it was demeaning, according to Mitt Romney.  Between their hesitation to participate in truly democratic forums like this one, and their outright disregard for the GLBT community’s Visible Vote forum, I think any sensible person with an…

  • Oakland Open House

    I’ll be there, as usual.

  • Politicians are weird

    I didn’t watch this debate, but I read this recap of it at the New York Times, and it only makes me wish I’d seen the debate myself because from the point of view of the blogger who’s covered it here, it sounds just so weird and sometimes funny.

  • More Happy Things

    First: The finished copy of the book came today! Me acting like a grade school boy with his spelling bee award or something to that effect. And second: The Endicott Studio’s Journal of the Mythic Arts has its Summer YA issue live now. They’ve got fantastic stories, poetry, art and essays over there, so go…

  • Surprise

    I had the most awesome birthday evening yesterday. I spent most of the day on my own, just bumbling along from one thing to another. Then in the evening, went to the Stage, where I met my parents in the parking lot outside with my friends and took the elevator up to the third floor…

  • Back again

    I’m back from the Sycamore Hill Writing Workshop, held in the mountains of North Carolina, where I was with eleven really awesome writers critiquing each others stories for the past week.  There was much fun:  dancing, singing, playing a silly game of Dungeons and Dragons, talking about writing and publishing, doing yoga, hiking, giving a…

  • Wiscon Redux

    Ok, so I am settled into a cafe here in Youngstown with wifi access that you *don’t* have to pay for, which seems to be the problem with a lot of cafes I stop in at. So many are those T-mobile spots like at airports where you have to buy access, which I think is…

  • Returned

    I am back from Wiscon, have had a full night of sleep, and yet still feel totally exhausted.  How on earth have all of you other con-goers managed to write these lovely con reports and love letters to fellow attendees already?  I feel ready to fall over just typing these words! So I will write…