Category: essay
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Things change!
…because it’s the only world we get, and because we inherit it, it seems permanent, and dependable.
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A Valentine to The Master and Margarita
In this season of love, I’m posting Valentines to my inspirations for my novel The Demon in Business Class. This one, to Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita.
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A Valentine to A Scanner Darkly
In this season of love, I’m posting Valentines to artistic inspirations for my own novel, The Demon in Business Class. This one, to Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly.
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A Valentine to The Alexandria Quartet
In this season of love, I’m posting Valentines to artistic inspirations for my own novel, The Demon in Business Class. Today, Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet!
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A Valentine to Farscape
In this season of love, every day this week I’m posting Valentines to inspirations for my novel, The Demon in Business Class. This is the first.
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Older words for the Internet
This faith, in the inherent goodness of understanding, has made wonder and amazement and fantasy and miracle, as nouns and adjectives, all upbeat in our time. We might want to revisit that.
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How writers read (sometimes)
I have no forethought, only an inadvertent method-acting, the way that some travelers unthinkingly restyle their hair to local norms. I really don’t know myself, at all. Existential panic notwithstanding, it’s a huge timesaver.
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Social media is a bar
We knew they knew about that table in the back. We knew what the bartenders would say if we complained: “It’s just talk. Maybe they’re LARPing. They pay their tab, OK?”
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Video – The Book Break
Host Melissa Martinez interviews me about Demon, my Tarot, and more!
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From the vaults…
January 2021 – this month’s selection from the vaults is one of my most popular posts, from 2012, about my spiritual beliefs – Dark Consciousness I have decided to come clean. I am not an atheist. People who note the Abrahamic and Gothic mythologies behind my novel might be a little surprised to hear I…