Category: Entertainment
-
What I’ve Read and Book Reviews I’ve Penned for Spring 2015
Those of you who have been around for years now (years?!) will remember how I used to do book reviews and also how I stopped. I won’t rehash all of that, but I will say that I’ve added a steady stream of reviews since last summer over at Goodreads. Here’s the list so far (I’ll update this…
-
NEW RELEASE :: The Encounter Stories
Buy on Payhip Buy on Amazon In The Encounter Stories, I assembled four literary shorts written for the young adult audience of the magazine “Encounter.” Three of these stories were published in past years, one I wrote specifically for this collection :: Lance has turned a physically abusive relationship between two little hispanic sisters into a moment…
-
So you want to make money writing…
More and more these days, I get emails from people asking me how they can make money writing. I’ve given different responses over the years, but they all sound similar to this most recent one :: [name redacted], That’s quite the story, my friend. Thanks for sharing. Off the top of my head: Forget about…
-
My Commentary on the Slice of Life Ballad
The following comes from the original email in which I delivered my manuscript to Ellie for the Slice of Life ballad. I knew that my work can be kind of dense at times, so I used the postscript of the document to write her an explanation. It explains the major thrust of the poem :: Hey sister, Though…
-
Slice of Life has hit Bookstores!
Remember that transmedia project from 2013? Well the Slice of Life book is now available in print! I worked on the Slice of Life book in between projects the summer of 2013, turning a ballad into a polyform poem that would represent the whole of the project. The book, as you’ll see below, is something like…
-
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Quotes that Made Me Cry
“If you could expect nothing better, why did you come to America?” “For the sake of my children whom I wished to be born in a free land.” “Your children haven’t done so well, Mother.” Katie smiled bitterly. “There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard unfamiliar things, there…
-
Don’t Kill Your Darlings. Exile Them.
I don’t believe in writer’s block, but man was I stuck on this novel. I say that in passing, but I’m forgetting that some of you don’t know I finished the third draft my fourth novel (my first publishable novel). See the update bars < if you’re looking at this on a laptop. Mobile will have them below /. So that…
-
Joplin Photonovel • Behind the Scenes 002
For your mid-week viewing pleasure, here are some more outtakes our shoot for… THE Joplin photonovel :: (click on the photos to get the full story) :: I can’t tell you much more right now, but as always, more to come…
-
The Alex Seton Life Jackets
Empathy. It may well be the driving force behind all art – that we learn by making decisions along with another. This is the crux of story, but it also works in terms of seeing life through the eyes of a sculptor or a painter. The story behind Alex Seton’s Life Jackets :: In May…
-
Leon Ransmeier’s Interplay between Objects and The Human Body
Leon Ransmeier showed up at Governor’s Island in 2012 with pieces like this :: Leon Ransmeier’s objects guide interaction – they seem to say that there’s a right way and a wrong way to use them. The piggy bank above, for instance, has a single hole and no plug. The only way to access your money once this…
-
Joplin Photonovel • Behind the Scenes 001
For your weekend viewing pleasure, here are some outtakes from our shoot for… THE Joplin photonovel :: Click on the pictures to open the gallery and see the stories behind them, but I need to highlight one in particular… Of course, the day we were shooting a long, progressive walk downtown would turn out to become the coldest day – complete…
-
Building of the Year
As a would-have-been fourth generation carpenter, I gleaned my father’s and my grandfather’s appreciation for architecture early on in life. If you don’t have a magazine like The Architect’s Newspaper in your arsenal, it’s a great way to cross-train regardless of your discipline. And if you’re not the artistic type, it’ll give you a deeper appreciation…