Woo. Also? Hoo.

Someone wants to publish another one of my stories. You can’t see it, of course, but I’m jumping up and down and squealing like a schoolgirl.
It’s not pretty, of course.

Supporting the art(ist)s

I am the proud owner of one of this guy’s paintings. Specifically, this one (I still have to find a frame for it). I would love to also buy a copy of this print, but I’ll have to save a bit for that.
I’ve also bought one of his paintings. Specifically, Caterwauling (it’s the sixth from [...]

Train in vain

Well, the Post-Dispatch’s Web site says the woman was from the East Coast, but TV news reports said the woman who tried to kill herself by jumping onto the MetroLink tracks was from the U.K. The Post certainly has its detractors (our esteemed mayor, for example), and from my perspective, it’s far more interesting to [...]

Ohmigod, Books. Let’s get some books.

A Bitch has tagged me for a book meme. If it were anything but books, a Bitch would be in line for some correction, but she knows full well how much I love books. And of course, I love a Bitch, so it behooves me to comply.
Book that changed your life. All of them. Even [...]

Blithe House call for submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
UNPUBLISHED SHORT FICTION
BY LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDERED AUTHORS
Submissions open: September 1st, 2006
Submissions deadline: December 1st, 2006
More information and some good reading available here.

What I Did at Summer Writers’ Camp

“But we all know what else happens in a Tennessee Williams play, albeit offstage. There’s even a saying: the sex is better at Yaddo but the work is better at MacDowell. But attendees report plenty of intrigue at both. The writer David Leavitt said he struck up an important friendship with Jill Ciment at MacDowell [...]

Around and around

Sometimes, if it weren’t for rewriting, I wouldn’t be doing any actual writing. Now is one of those times. The book has stalled out (page 44!) while I’ve been working on other stories, and in between trying to get that kick started again, I noticed here that this film company is putting together an anthology [...]

Let there be light(saber)

This is not strictly related to my writing work—OK, it’s not related at all. However, it’s really cool, if you have a new Mac laptop:
New Powerbooks and MacBook/MacBookPros have a motion sensor that locks your hard drive if it feels like you’re about to drop your laptop. MacSaber takes that data and converts it to [...]

Question

If something like this happened to you, how would you have reacted if you knew you had a gun in your bag? I wonder because it’s something I am thinking about on a personal level, but it’s also just an interesting question to me and is causing me to sit here with my fingers hovering [...]

PU:2

Don’t dismiss the opportunity or potential to experience joy in what you do.