Can you feel it? There’s some lift going on again. The doors are open. So are the windows. And we’re starting to move. We’re not flying yet, but we’re certainly not tethered to asphalt anymore, either. The potential of the […]
A Free Sample Short Story from IMPLOSIONS OF AMERICA
Uph! Ya’ missed it. The story, “So Beautiful,” self-destructed at 10:37 PM, July 9, 2012. You can find “So Beautiful” again in the story collection Implosions of America, due out in September and available in both Kindle and paperback editions. […]
Indies Unlimited Sneak Peak: July 8
Indies Unlimited is a great resource for independent authors and their readers. They post loads of information on quality books available at reasonable prices online. They also run a fabulous FaceBook page you should check out here: http://www.facebook.com/IndiesUnlimited At around […]
Independence Day with Global Illage: Improvisational Music and Freedom
http://www.1krecordings.com/home for availability We had the opportunity last night, Independence Day Night, to attend an album release party for the new Global Illage album “The Complete Portland Sessions.” I’ve written about this mind blowing quartet previously. They’re all about improvisational […]
R.I.P. Andy Griffith: You Did Something Very Special
I grew up watching the Andy Griffith Show several times a week. It ran from 1960 to 1968. We watched it when it was a prime time show and we watched it more once it became syndicated — probably from […]
Paperback Rider: Beyond the Will of God, The Real Thing
Cover of the paperback, due out in July. I’d originally planned on publishing a paperback version of Beyond the Will of God late in the fall. But within days of getting the word out to friends and family that they could […]
Burial of the Query Letter: Inside Beyond the Will of God
Somewhere in this photo is an envelope containing over 100 rejections. You will find below an actual query sent earlier this year to a book publisher for my novel Beyond the Will of God. I sent out over 200 query […]
Mind Maverick: Check out David Jay Brown
David Jay Brown covers the far edge of consciousness research. I stumbled into his work while reading a weekly report on entheogens at Reality Sandwich. Brown recently did a piece for the Santa Cruz Patch on telepathy and precognition studies […]
Almost a Dead Head: James Parker bears witness to a 14-disc archive of Grateful Dead film footage
James Parker, a contributing editor to The Atlantic magazine, is one of the best writers of cultural criticism working today. I subscribe to The Atlantic partly because I know I’ll get a scatter shot of weird imagery, little known facts, […]
