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- Be the Hero
I’ve been on a run lately of memoirs and biographies of writers, actors, and performers I admire including Kelly Bishop, Carole King, Marvin Hamlisch, and Elmore Leonard. As much as I love reading stuff like this, it can also be an exercise in… Read more: Be the Hero - Words Fail
Other than two rejections from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, I haven’t had a short story rejected in more than fifteen years. I’ve had two this year already. That obviously hurts my confidence, but what’s worse is that I should have never written them in… Read more: Words Fail - Somewhere That’s Green
Note: Various versions of pieces of this appeared recently across my social media profiles and a few group texts, but I wanted to gather it all together in one place and smooth it out a bit, so I hope if you’ve already read… Read more: Somewhere That’s Green - You Gotta Get a Gimmick
I’ve been watching a lot of MURDER, SHE WROTE and COLUMBO lately partially as a comfort to the horrors of the real world and partially as research in trying to find the right tone and style for my typewriter mystery. Finding my current… Read more: You Gotta Get a Gimmick - I Have Confidence
I’ve been thinking a lot about confidence lately. Unlike the marvelous Julie Andrews who sings the song from Sound of Music that this entry draws its title from, I do not have confidence. Or, rather, I’ve had trouble maintaining confidence personally and professionally… Read more: I Have Confidence - This is Halloween
Today is Halloween and we added that new Chucky balloon to our menagerie at the kids’ request. The weather has been unseasonably warm and I’ve complained about it a lot, but today for trick or treating it will be nice. Then it’s supposed… Read more: This is Halloween