Four times a year, Kevin has to go to a shooting range and play cowboy–one of the mandatory aspects of his job. Sometimes the shooting is indoors and fairly straightforward. Sometimes it’s outdoors, with moving targets that are made to look like an assortment of criminals alongside mothers holding babies, and you have to shoot [...]
There’s a cool new site called Visual Thesaurus. Basically, you type in a word and VT provides a map of related words, each of which contains an article or audio file. It’s something of a linguistic treasure hunt. You can try it out for free, but to really explore it you need to subscribe. Each [...]
Our delightful Mongolian babysitter came over last night, and Kevin & I went to dinner at The Elite Cafe, an old cajun-style restuarant on Fillmore. It’s worth a trip for the Meetinghouse Biscuits and b-b-q shrimp alone, and they make this great cocktail with Pimm’s and a slice of cucumber that, to me, tasted like [...]
Sometimes when I’m awake in the middle of the night, having just fed Oscar a bottle and unable to fall back asleep, I’ll go online and waste time. Last night, I played the old google-me game that most people engage in occasionally but that everyone’s too embarrassed, rightly, to talk about. Among the Michelle Richmonds [...]
Dan Wickett points out today in his EWN newsletter the debut issue of a new online litmag, The Picolata Review. Named for an obscure village on the St. Johns River, The Picolata Review is “dedicated to great writing by talented authors and poets who are also just a little west of famous.” It’s a great-looking [...]
Hey, I have a new author photo here and on my web site. Both were taken by my sister, Misty Richmond, a San Francisco photographer. You can see her work here. Her rates are competitive, and she’ll do the photo session in your home or at another location of your choice. She also does lots [...]
Mirtika at Mirathon just posted a list of upcoming story contests, including some good standards and some interesting ones I’ve never heard of. If you’ve got the entry fee (usually $10-$20) and are feeling talented and/or lucky, check it out.
Meanwhile, Max over at The Millions lists the most anticipated books of 2006, part 2. And [...]
The title story from my first book, the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, is currently up at The National Literary Review, edited by Erie Chapman. This is the journal’s second issue, and I look forward to watching its progress. Each issue includes a story, poetry and artwork. The first issue featured poetry [...]
When beloved San Francisco bookstore A Clean Well-Lighted Place announced last month that it was up for sale, Bay Area writers and readers knew it probably wouldn’t be long before the store closed for good. Now, after three decades of being central to the Bay Area literary community, the store is officially closing. Blame [...]
I’ll be participating in the Book Group Expo this Saturday and Sunday at the San Jose Convention Center, where fifty authors will live it up in a literary way with readers. The Book Group Expo website says it best:
Book Lovers! Attend a first-of-its-kind event and have a SPA DAY for your Brain! Meet (famous) authors. [...]
