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Blogging, feedback, and the perils of both
As the frequency of my posts reveal, you can probably tell I’m not what you’d call committed to this blogging thing. It comes down to choices, where I can best allocate my time. And when I’ve got a...
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Hey! Did you hear the one about The Grocer’s Wife in Asimov’s?
This one qualifies more as news than a blog, so should you feel offended or misled in any way, I will understand your rapid retreat to a safe space. For those without a safe space to run to…...
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Wedding Small Talk and Cultural Appropriation
1. A writer and an accountant walk into a wedding … I was at a wedding on Labor Day weekend, when a chartered accountant I’ve met on occasion started chatting with me. He wanted to know if I was still...
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Hollywood North, The Realist, and Flin Flon
1. Hollywood North out loud (two chapters, anyhow) Back in June, I was invited by Chizine Publications to a ChiSeries event in Ottawa, where I read from my novel, HOLLYWOOD NORTH: A SIX REELER. The...
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Publishing news! Hollywood North novel sells to ChiZine
1. Hollywood North set to get the ChiZine treatment After weeks of dedicated sighing and moping, as I struggled to keep my publishing news restricted to family, close friends, and the entire population...
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Dystopia via Plattsburgh, Montreal, and Points Beyond
Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead “People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.” … With these words from Ray Bradbury, editor Gordon Van Gelder extends his...
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Lawrence C. Connolly and the Nightmare Cinema Saga
Everything is nothing until it is something Lawrence C. Connolly A while back, I had some interest from Hollywood in a short story of mine. I’d had nibbles now and then over the years, but this was...
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How a Comic Book Ad Taught Me about the Holocaust
All this, and only for a dime! I was seven, maybe eight. And the deal on the back of the comic book looked pretty darn good. I showed my dad the ad. He frowned, sighed as if exhaling life itself. “No,”...
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“That Time of Month” or How I Learned to Time Travel
The Benefits of Living in the Past (By popular demand—well, should feedback from three individuals be sufficient to constitute popular demand—I present another brief excerpt adapted from my novel, LIFE...
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Footnotes to a Novel, Featuring “The Diner from Hell”
1. The Art of the Interior Monologue I’m standing at my publisher’s table in the vendors room at CanCon in Ottawa. I’m wearing my laid-back author face, a time-honoured expression that goes well with...
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