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In Monterey
So I’m currently in the house band for my daughters’ youth camp this week. Oddly enough. It happens to be at the Monterey fairgrounds–the same place Joplin and Hendrix awoke in the garden of their musical Edens. Blogging this week … Continue reading
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Step Number two: Come up with an idea. Um, NOW might be helpful.
I had no intention of posting a follow up to the “possibly getting published” post from the other day. But then I realized. I’ve been writing for different things for years. I’ve been published in things that saw regionally-limited circulation. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music, Writing
Tagged Blogging Advice, publicity, publishing, Reading, Self publishing, ukulele, writing
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A chance to be published. No, I mean by somebody else.
So my inbox contained a legitimate solicitation for my writing skills. Clearly, somebody needs to see a counselor. But since this potentially-lucrative opportunity requires me to go ahead an exploit their utterly profound lack of judgement, I need to get … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged Blogging Advice, bucket list, publicity, publishing, Self publishing, writing
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How to become a schizophrenic with one reading app
I never in my life ever expected humanity’s ever-increasing appetite for acceleration to come to the point that the very act of reading would become a veritable Asperger’s simulation chamber. But it’s happened. Don’t believe it? Peep this app: I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, CS Lewis, Film Making, Music, Reading, Uncategorized
Tagged app, Asperger's, Autism, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, novel writing, publishing, Reading, Self publishing, speed, Spritz, The Hunger Games, Thomas Pynchon, writing
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In which I blatantly use an accordion-player’s cheekiness for my own pathetic attempt at self-promotion.
Some thirty-five years ago, my father and I were watching some telethon in which Sammy Davis Jr. was involved. There he stood, in a tuxedo and hand-held mic, casually making small talk after a song. He then mentioned that his … Continue reading
Posted in CS Lewis, Guest Columnists, Music, Tenkara, Trolling, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Blogging Advice, C.S. Lewis, clifford hicks, code, David Copperfield, fly fishing, Gamesmanship, legalization, marijuana, Motivational Interviewing, novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, Tenkara, writing
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Technological Ground Hog Day
The other day my friend sends me a YouTube clip of comedian Lewis Black. Mr. Black was peeling forth about what he was calling “the end of the universe.” His point of departure being, that he walked out of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Commodore 64, computers, Starbucks, Steve Jobs
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My pathetic need for tactile comfort (on designing a book cover)
It seems I am gaining followers here every single day. This invokes an immediate reflex to check out exactly who is following. The numbers of followers who are already published authors, have a book in the hopper—or both—is staggering. And … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film Making, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Blogging Advice, novel writing, promotion, Self publishing, writing
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