Dispatch from Modesto
I’ve just finished giving six workshops in Modesto, California, at a very cheerful and well-run convention where every room was packed with people. Here are the Californians at my last [...]
Emerging, dishevelled, from the groves of academe
Do you know what THIS is? THIS, my friends, is a DISSERTATION. “The Art of the Public Grovel: Public Confession and Scandal Management in the Twentieth Century.” From Aimee Semple [...]
A writer’s education
We do school year-round with the kids, because that gives us plenty of flexibility to take days off whenever we’ve all HAD it (and because they get VERY bored with a three-month summer [...]
Publicity photos and the next six years
Many thanks for the blurb suggestions below; I made a list of the names and sent them along to my editor. I’ll let you know whether we actually GET any raves for the back cover. I [...]
Searching for blurbs
Before I get to the main matter of this post, here’s a reflection on the mysterious nature of heredity. From the Whiz-Bang Automated Chicken Plucker post, here’s my father, triumphant [...]