News, publications and blog for the author of AM/PM (Featherproof Books) and Museum of the Weird (FC2).
Ryan posted my Word Space over at the HTML Giant. Sam Pink wanted to know more about the lemon so I took some more pictures of it.
The lemon is getting old but is still enjoying its days in the window. We are seeing more lizards and fewer baby birds as the weather heats up.
It rained a little last week, which was nice.
Here is the lemon’s skin.
AM/PM is on sale! Clicking the button below gives you a chance to purchase the book and support a local business. That statement only applies if you live in Chicago or have a very broad world-view.
The book will officially be out August 1, at which point you can buy it on Amazon and in a bookstore and illegally on the black market. The bootleg copy is a brick wrapped in newspaper.
1. Tearing apart this month’s Bon Appetit and finding some good recipes. Delightful orecchiette, lemon herb dip. Made tasty little shrimp enchiladas last night. Today, a leftovers breakfast of perfect little cinnamon rolls from a friend. Baking banana bread and refusing to write subjects in sentences.
2. An excellent read of my story “Fish” can be found at Emerging Writers Network:
I’ve learned to quit doing that with Amelia Gray and her stories, and after reading that couplet of sentences, decided to scrunch back in my chair and really settle in, as who knows where the hell it was going.
Dan’s the best kind of reader.
3. A review of AM/PM over at Literary License. Nice short-and-sweet approach. They picked some new passages to print too, which is cool. When people tell me their favorite stories in the book, it’s like watching someone pat a baby on the head.
When I was sixteen and working at Ace Hardware in Tucson, I helped an old snowbird replace the battery on his hearing aid. This was before hearing aid batteries came in packages with easy-install tabs; none we sold, anyway. Without those tabs, it’s really hard for people with arthritis to fit the tiny battery into the tiny hearing aid. We got the battery in and the guy plugged himself back in and declared it worked and I said, Cool. He leaned back a little and repeated “Cool!” and was delighted at the word, gave it an extra-long “o” like he was reading ad copy for Virginia Slims. I laughed but I was embarrassed because everything is embarrassing when you are sixteen.
4. Planning a Five Things that will actively rock until the wheels fall off. The wheels will roll down the street and we will never find them again. It’s a nice day in Texas and I’m feeling optimistic. I wrote another story featuring talking animals.
5. From a recent spacewalk:
Dr. Massimino asked the robot arm operator, Megan McArthur, to move him up a couple of feet.
Dr. McArthur replied, “For you, anything.”
Judge Lidia Yuknavitch chose Museum of the Weird for a Spring/Summer 2010 release. A complex and piercing collection, as poetic as it is poignant, Museum of the Weird features twenty four short stories that collectively expose both the hilarity and heartbreak of life in the twenty first century.
