My two favorite topics: obituaries and radicals
Should people be frozen in time, remembered for their worst moments? Think of your worst moment: is that how you’d …
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6 takeaways from the 2022 AWP conference
After a year pause, I attended the AWP conference in Philadelphia at the end of March. This is the big …
A new road sign
I was driving to Duluth the other day and noticed a road sign I had never seen before: When I …
Don’t call me Shirley
I’ve been thinking lately about the importance of people’s names, and how good we feel when someone calls us by …
March newsletter
(This newsletter went out to my subscribers earlier this week. Subscribe to get a freebie and to stay current with …
Can you get rich by self-publishing?
Or course, but not likely. Want to know more about real numbers behind self-publishing? This guy does a great job …
Drumroll…catalog description for my book
Things are moving ahead. Presses everywhere are working on their fall releases (or next spring’s releases, in the case of …
Spotting domestic terrorists before it’s too late
The Biden administration recently promoted a new program designed to identify domestic terrorists. I wonder if a program like this …
The top 3 books about Patty Hearst and the SLA (+ 2 documentaries)
The Patty Hearst kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army was definitely one of the most bizarre events of the 1970s. …
A photographic sneak peek
My book on Camilla Hall isn’t coming out until October or November, but things are moving right along. I revised …
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 