New Order it’s the pull in the gut, the lurching forward, and the limbs lift from sleep—and you were so sure they’d never wake again— nevermind, it’s here: everything you’ve ever wanted but nothing you were prepared for, smile and choose: left or right always is insincerity at its best, and never’s false promises are…
Month: September 2012
“Ana didn’t have her $#!% together.”
I wrote this one when I was in grad school and had embarked upon a rather nomadic pattern after a long period of stasis about eight or nine years ago. It’s got rotating rhyme and regular syllabic patterns. It came to mind today, so I decided to post it. ♥ EAB “Ana didn’t have her shit…
Kickstarter campaign has been launched!
The time has come for me to put the first book of my trilogy Ministers of Grace into the hands of readers, but to do that, I need your help. I’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to produce it in both print and electronic formats. The funding deadline is October 16 at 11:59…
There are no rules.
It always perplexes me that many writers feel the need to establish rules for writing. Some of them are useful, like those from Kurt Vonnegut and Neil Gaiman. Others are ridiculous, and you can identify your own personal bugbear from the more ludicrous ones compiled by The Guardian here and here. I find it amazing that purists…
The Bell Jar: A Suicide Note?
Here’s the first in my new blog series I’m calling Visitations, in which I blog about an extended stay with a book that I really should have read by now. I’d also like to offer the caveat that this review/critical analysis is spoiler heavy. George Pollucci’s appearance within The Bell Jar is a flicker within…
On Blogging
I was once a blogger. It was during the years in which was benched at desk jobs with very, very little responsibility, and I was afforded the luxury of being able to cut my writerly milk teeth by means of web-based rant, analysis and confession. My life and my perceptions have changed since then, and I’ve…