I intend to work this morning, but not until 4 loads of laundry are finished, some clothes and things are resorted in preparation for moving (again), and maybe a little trip to […]
Species of Feeling is now available!
My latest novel, Species of Feeling, is now available from B&b Books, in both paper and electronic formats. This is my 10th published novel, although spread over a writing life of more […]
Amazon & Goodreads
There’s a lot of murmuring and quite a bit of SHOUTING regarding the news that Amazon has purchased Goodreads. I have a page on Goodreads. It makes no sense for an independent […]
You want to write?
This is my advice. There are two living writers of literary fiction you can learn from. If you have any literary ambitions and have not read everything these two have written, you […]
Species of Feeling now available
Species of Feeling is now available from Amazon, along with other of my published work. Click here. This is an extensive revision of my novel, Hatch’s Island, published by Bantam in […]
Free Reading: check it out
My current work, in-progress, can be found at a new website. The title is — Species of Feeling. This work will be serialized on this site as chapters are completed. Please visit […]
Buenos Aires International Book Fair : Reading
Last evening, 30 April, I read from my novel “Blossom” at the Buenos Aires Book Fair. It was my fourth appearance reading at this annual event, which is one of the largest […]
Announcing the new book
My latest work, “The Love Story of Paul Collins,” originally known as, “And It’s Only Love,” is now available in both digital and print editions. For a few bucks more than pixels […]
Random blogging: twits, selling thyself, digital/print, and many etceteras
I hope you will visit and enjoy the pretty at dusk old city picture on my author’s homepage. (It could be my favorite city: Bratislava.) It looks like this, and the link […]
One of my rare reviews
I don’t often review books on this blog, although I do review books by writers I know on Amazon and Goodreads. I’m not really a very good reviewer. I review books by […]
Feeling like a salmon
I have an iPad now, inherited my wife’s #1 when she got a #2. I like some things about it, especially reading my favorite newspapers and magazines in the morning. It’s also […]
The survival of Only Love
This has been the strangest process I’ve ever gone through as a writer. And It’s Only Love began with a long-lingering idea generated decades ago from a song lyric (“Heart Like a Wheel”), […]
Addendum to publishing with Author House
This is the most important lesson learned from my venture (and adventure) into self-publishing: do-it-yourself really means doing it, all of it, entirely by yourself. Anything done for you will be costly. […]
Publishing “Blossom” with Author House
It is still early in this process, so these are early, preliminary observations about my experience with Author House publishing my current novel, Blossom. Let’s begin with what I liked about it. […]
Making reading sexy
Great blog for fans of reading and breasts. Check it out.