I just did a bit of on-the-fly calculation (the procrastination skills of a writer are varied, indeed) and when I type my handwritten pages into the computer, I’m cutting about 10%. This matches up with what I usually end up cutting between first and second draft because I do like to ramble, especially in dialogue. […]
This picture perfectly encapsulates me at 42. It’s not what I had in mind when I started taking the photo, but I like it better than what I planned. I was going to take one of just myself, but Natalie saw me and asked if she could take a picture with me and who can […]
I’m here and it’s sooooooo humid. Yay.
My first visit to Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Bookshop corresponded to my first visit to Ann Arbor when friends from my Flint-area high school theater and choir program trekked out to our closest cultural mecca. They went to find music stores and other quaint shops, I navigated my way (poorly) toward Fourth Avenue where I knew […]
As I’ve been making great progress on this new book I’ve been wondering where the hell all of this great stuff was hiding for the ten other books I’ve written. There’s certainly been flashes, but nothing like this. And it’s not for lack of practice. I don’t stick with much, but I’ve stuck with writing […]
For whatever reason, (people have tried to explain it to me, but none of the explanations really make sense) we have this hole in Natalie’s closet wall that opens to some pipes, a little tunnel behind our bathtub, and a hole to our basement. When we first moved in, the hole was covered by a […]
For the first few days, I was a bit sad at how the cats seemed to be hiding all day and only coming out very late at night to play with Becky. But after a few days, they started coming out earlier in the evening and even visiting me once in a while. They regard […]
So, uh, we may have added someone to the family. I know it seems soon, and it seemed soon to us as well, but Becky and I both were having a harder time than we thought we would with Ruby’s death. He was a giant pain in the ass while he was alive, but after […]
Becky got Ruby shortly before we met. When she got him from the Humane Society, they estimated his age at 2 years old and said he was a girl. So she named the cat Ruby and bought a sparkly red collar and started calling the cat Ruby the Girl Pimp Kitty. When it came time […]
I see a lot of people crapping all over the new novel from Bill Clinton and James Patterson. In general, I find it pretty awful when anyone looks down on what anyone else reads, but the good these two men in particular have done for our field can’t be overstated (and that doesn’t even take […]
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