Congratulations to Jennifer Paddock, who has been selected to receive the Alabama State Council on the Arts fellowship. According to the Alabama Writers’ Forum newsletter, “Paddock will use her Fellowship to complete her third novel, connecting it with her first novel, A Secret Word. This third novel will also tie in with her second novel, [...]
I’ll be reading from and discussing NO ONE YOU KNOW tonight at M Is for Mystery in San Mateo, 86 East Third Avenue, 7:00 p.m. If you’re in the area, please stop by and say hello!
You’ve probably met a few writer types who say they don’t own a TV. Well, I’m here to tell you I’m not one of them. In addition to being a bona fide The Office addict (I even have a Dwight Shrute bobblehead), my TIVO never misses an episode of Top Chef. Our friends Dianne and [...]
Today at Ghost Word, Frances Dinkelspiel reports extensively on what’s happening to the Los Angeles Times. A while back there was talk of the death of the novel. Well, that never happened, and I seriously doubt it will anytime in the near future. Who knows, we may all go Kindle, but I do believe the [...]
I just jumped on the MBT bandwagon. Picked mine up today at Nomadic Outfitters and took them for a spin in Golden Gate Park. The verdict? They’re not as sinfully ugly as they used to be–I chose the black Kaya (think Mary Janes on steroids), which actually looks pretty good in a weird interplanetary walking-on-rubber-tires [...]
Last night I did a reading at The Depot in Mill Valley, CA. Five minutes before the reading was scheduled to begin, there were only three people in the room, all of whom I knew.
Then a gentleman wandered in, very tall and broad, dressed in a motorcycle jacket. Because readings always breed in me a [...]
Booklist gave Cooley Windsor’s forthcoming story collection, Visit Me in California, a starred review: “These stories give new and devastating insight into what it means to yearn and what it means to falter; they commit the rare and essential accomplishment of exposing their characters as wounded, flawed, and wholly human.”
And Publisher’s Weekly had this to [...]
My friend Wade Williams (who has appeared in every one of my books to date, as a folk singer, banjo player, Hollywood producer…but who in reality is a Houstonian purveyor of torts) is guest blogging over at Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle, the ginormously popular blog with the self-explanatory name.
I’m guest-blogging at Ecstatic [...]
Allow me a sexist moment (or is it a sexy moment?) to say Kurt Bodden looks hot in uniform. Here, he demonstrates a simple way to file for divorce.
Anneli Rufus did a great write-up of NO ONE YOU KNOW today in the East Bay Express.
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