Tag: brooklyn author

  • To Della Across the Veil Poem

    To Della Across the Veil Poem

    To Della Across the Veil is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.

  • Upon Finding Your Old Prison Letters Poem

    Upon Finding Your Old Prison Letters Poem

    My Upon Finding Your Old Prison Letters poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.

  • When it Hit the Salt Lick Poem

    My When it Hit the Salt Lick poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.

  • The Brooklyn Film Festival at Windmill Studios

    The Brooklyn Film Festival at Windmill Studios

    A windmill guards wonder pictures: blades hedging bad ideas. Festival goers’ fists and feet vote as teams, very to very, sparrows—they echo spite for spite, but they aren’t right: Thous aren’t here. The windmill unwinds weathered not from spins unwound or spurning found sins. Windies gone whence called: nailed and neutered, naught milling here. It…

  • Greenwood

    Greenwood

    Twenty-four crypts: teeming mouths songless closed, soothing whistlers they pucker: Thayer, Galdwell, Green, Michael — Greenwood blows cyclonic, sites of graves stirring waves up, staring stairs down for prey. Dowreys in stones displayed; stolen days, stolen children — stoves aflame the names! The dates! The native whistling low till lakes blow circular. Maelstrom made small…

  • Succeeding for Others

    Succeeding for Others

    Chapter twelve in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101.  If you want to succeed as a writer, you must take the path that’s…

  • Author Earnings in 2016

    Author Earnings in 2016

    Chapter twelve in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101.  In Any Money Makes a Pro, I took an example of brokenness — Faulkner’s…

  • Publishing Contracts of the Draconian Variety

    Publishing Contracts of the Draconian Variety

    Chapter eleven in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101.    We find out in On Writing that Stephen King signed a contract he…

  • Kinfolk and Advocates or “How to Build a Platform”

    Kinfolk and Advocates or “How to Build a Platform”

    Chapter ten in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101.  Imagine with me a whirlpool. You know, Charybdis from the Odyssey. Whitecaps, blue water,…

  • Making Good Money… in a Shadow Career

    Making Good Money… in a Shadow Career

    Chapter nine in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101.  Once you’ve read The Writer’s Market and come to terms with the good sides…

  • Regular Writing Assignments — The Dark and The Light

    Regular Writing Assignments — The Dark and The Light

    Chapter eight in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101.  Once the rejections slow down and you’ve found a bit of success (or, possibly,…