Quick note that I’ve booked my travel for World Fantasy Convention. One of the things I hope to do while I’m there is record some interviews for the SLF, so would love to know who else is planning to attend, so I can start scheduling those early. Also just so I can say hi, maybe […]
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First launch event tonight for my breast cancer memoir, Tornado — Chicago folks, if you’re free, come out to Volumes Book Cafe in Wicker Park (just off the Blue line, 1373 N. Milwaukee) for the SLF’s September Deep Dish reading. You’ll get to hear me reading from both Tornado and Perennial (a garden romance, just
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The first few times I went to Hawai’i, Jed treated me to a lot of sightseeing and tourist stuff, which was great — helicopter tour, snuba, visit to the Dole Plantation and the queen’s palace, lots of eating at local restaurants. This trip, I pretty much went straight to friends’ houses, shopped at local markets
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SO many steps, but it’s worth it. Kaua’i.
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I promised you all some not-writing thoughts, so here they are. For the last, oh, six months or so, I’ve hardly been writing at all. I’d wake up every day, hoping to write, and then it wouldn’t happen. I’d try to push through with sheer willpower, which almost never worked and made me feel miserable
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Platform question re: my stories. So, a few months ago, I started a new tier on Patreon, where for $3 / month, you get a new story of mine sent to you. This has been great for me, because even though I have a total of 12 subscribers so far (woohoo!), it has been the
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Tech question — is there a way to do ‘recover text’ on a large set of Microsoft Word files all at once? Fuller explanation: I have hundreds (perhaps thousands) of old poems, stories, etc. on my computer, that I wrote on a previous version of Word (I think?) back in the early 1990s. (Picture of
Delighted to be included in New City’s “Lit 50 in Fiction: Who Really Books in Chicago” for 2023. Also fun to see how they tried to encapsulate my exceedingly eclectic career in one paragraph — kudos to Donald G. Evans for his hard work squeezing so much in. https://lit.newcity.com/2023/08/01/lit-50-2023-fiction/
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July story up at Patreon, just under the wire. Tonight’s sections, 972 words, nice to get them down after a few weeks of being really stalled out on writing. I really didn’t plan on these stories weaving together into a larger project, but they just are. I’m not sure if it’ll be a long short
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Next bit of the July Patreon story! To read the conclusion, you’ll need to sign up, I’m afraid. And I’ll warn you, this particular story is likely to end on a bit of a cliffhanger, so you may need to wait for August’s story to find out what really happens next… ***** “So.” Surinder glanced
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