I’m participating in Read an E-Book Week!
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Time of Grace
A Knight’s Tale on Goodreads!
The Leaving
The Captain and Claire
on Smashwords
Category Archives: Writing
Read an Ebook Week at Smashwords
Once again, Smashwords is holding their annual Read an Ebook Week promotion (March 1–7). I always find out about this at the very last moment and put a few of my books into the pile. This time, Time of Grace … Continue reading
This Writing Life: Two Opinion Pieces
I was listening to the radio in the kitchen the other day, and the NPR announcer was talking about the search for the bones of the great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. Cervantes is very famous … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and its discontents, Personal, Writing
Tagged Ann Bauer, Cervantes, dislocated, home, money issues, pauper, Salon, the writing life, time to write, unmarked grave
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Write or Wrong Part 7: Melinda Clayton can breathe just fine, thank you…
It’s been such a quiet January, so I wanted to kick things off here by reblogging one of the Write or Wrong posts on writer Shannon Yarbrough’s site. Write or Wrong is an excellent series where contemporary writers speak candidly … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and its discontents, Writing
Tagged Melinda Clayton, Shannon Yarbrough, Write or Wrong
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading
The Amazing Life of Daniel Defoe
A fascinating piece about Daniel Defoe…who was actually pilloried at one point in his long and tumultuous life. Just reading the list of his pen names gives a great sense of the man. I’d like to read “Journal of the … Continue reading
November seems like a good month for a promotion, so with that in mind my recently published memoir It’s Not You, It’s Me will be free for three days starting tomorrow. (Nov. 10–12) And just so it won’t be lonely, … Continue reading
Singing a Happy iTune
Technology is a funny thing. I’ve always been one to be way behind the curve, and although I have always used Macs at home for working and writing, they are never the fresh and new models but reliable old workhorses. … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, Personal, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Apple, bisexual, Dorothy Richardson, Free, iOS 8, It's Not You It's Me, iTunes, Kindle, lesbian studies, memoir, queer, Smashwords, Steve Jobs
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Now on Pre-order: It’s Not You, It’s Me
Just a note to say that my 14,000 -word memoir, “It’s Not You, It’s Me,” is on pre-order right now at Amazon and will be released September 21! I wrote this memoir about two years after a devastating breakup with … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, Personal, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Amazon, breakups, Ireland, It's Not You It's Me, lesbian relationships, memoir, preorder, queer community, relationships, San Francisco
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Why you should or should not self-publish your book…
Author Shannon Yarbrough, who’s been both self- and traditionally published, shares some heartfelt thoughts on the self-publishing scene.
Posted in Self-publishing, Writing
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‘Dorothy Richardson: A Close Reading’ Is Free Through Monday
My short literary study of modernist writer Dorothy Richardson came out as an ebook in May, and I’m happy to announce that it is free (regularly $2.99) on Amazon Kindle through Monday, August 11, just in time for grad students and … Continue reading
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