I don’t really have anything to blog about, but I feel like posting anyway and I’m tired of working. So this will be kind of a free-flowing stream of thought. I only wrote 1381 words today, but that small word count required a considerable amount of work, as I finally tunneled my way out of […]
RISK Map
I sometimes get obsessive about looking at my web traffic statistics. It’s fun to see how many hits your site gets, and what states and countries they are from. Recently, my agent and UK publisher talked up The Painted Man at London Book Fair, which got us some international attention. Not long after, we sent […]
Viral
A couple of months ago, I posted a question to the site of my good friend and copyeditor extraordinaire, Deanna Hoak. The question was about interrobangs, which is the practice of using a combination of exclamation point and question mark in order to denote a question that is shouted, or otherwise intensified. Some people hate […]
Rap
I’ve been thinking about my “rap” about The Painted Man. This is something I need to practice quite a bit as my publication date nears, and I need to become something of a salesman in addition to an author. I’ve never been good at sales. Or summaries. I’m a long story kind of guy, and […]
Day-Dayenu
I’m not Jewish, but I play one on holidays. I am a godless heathen, but my wife and her family are Jews, which exposes me to a lot of yiddish words and Jewish traditions. One of those is the Passover Seder, which I had to skip this year to go to NY ComicCon, (Sorry, God!), […]