I am not hardcore into astrology—but I definitely notice when we’re entering a Mercury retrograde period. That’s when things that would normally go smoothly are more likely to go awry, particularly with respect to communication. Continue reading
Updates
ART 65 #2
I am now on my third rough draft of This Is Not the Book That Will Save Your Life. Continue reading
Oh, the irony!
Yeah, so I post my response to one journal’s opinion about publication indicating that you take your work seriously, and five minutes later, I receive notification that three of my poems will be published in the 2017 edition of Spindrift, the art and literary journal published by Shoreline Community College. If previous publication schedules hold, it should be available in June. Yeah…
(18 March 2017)
Here we go again…
I have started work on my next collection of poems, This Is Not the Book That Will Save Your Life. Continue reading
E-book adventures, February 2017, Part 2
Update: After a brief exchange with the very helpful Kevin (also a poet) from Smashwords, I exercised the ‘nuclear option’—i.e., I saved my Word document as a plain text file, then re-applied all the formatting from scratch. It worked, so everything now looks the way it should. (As a precaution, I re-saved and uploaded the updated document to Amazon as well, so that the files will be consistent with each other.)
On the title thing, I chose to capitalize the only the first word. My updated file is now being reviewed, so I should know soon whether or not I have to do anything else.
Whee!
(8 February 2017)
E-book adventures, February 2017
I am taking advantage of the snow day, and the current break in my copy-editing work, to generate and upload the e-book editions of …but for the thoughts running through my mind. It is turning out to be a pain… Continue reading
ART 58 proofs
The proofs for my forthcoming book arrived yesterday… Continue reading
It’s getting closer…
It’s not too late! In case you are still looking for that year-end/holiday gift for someone—books—I have several. The e-books are all 50%–60% off through December 31st.
My contributions to the culture, 2016
2016 ended up being a difficult year: work that didn’t materialize, illness, car problems, and the death of Lucy, the world’s greatest alarm cat. And that’s just in my little world.
So, I figure I need to step back for a moment and reflect on the things I was able to accomplish: Continue reading
Taking it easy for a bit
After nearly two years of daily writing, I am allowing myself a break from routine this month. Continue reading