Friends
My agent is about to go out with my latest WIP, FIERCE. It’s about 2 punk rock girls in 1983 Northern California. And it’s about art and music and stage-diving and dumpster-diving and skinny-dipping and punk boy guitar players but […]
Treggiari
Hos before Bros
Forgive me for the awful headline but you know that dude-ish phrase “Bros before Hos” meaning that a man should always put his male friends before any lowly woman? It always used to get on my nerves. I was thinking […]
Hardwood Floors
Hardwood floors are wonderful. I had them in my old house, I have them now. They are cool in the summer and warm and glowing in the winter. They feel good against your bare feet. However they are not nice […]
Moi
At a loss for anything to blog about right now… Hello, moving house tomorrow morning! I figured I would turn to the natural subject people rely on when they have nothing interesting to say. The always thrilling and informative subject […]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Did I ever tell you about the time I met David Bowie?Little known facts:He has eyebrowsHe is not 8 feet tallHe has a tribal tattoo on the back of his (I think) right calfAnd he smells absolutely delicious. He lived […]
The Books in between
In between the BOOKS. There are the books.Entire manuscripts completed,and sweated over that for whatever reason, didn’t work.I have four of them.They came between The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton and Ashes, Ashes, and I easily loved them as much […]
The Secret Room
In my present home we have no attic (just a hot and dirty crawl space under the roof) and only half a basement which is wet or flooded most of the year. The house sits on a massive slab of […]
The Aftermath
I received my editor’s notes on May 24th. Read through them. Had myself a good cry (both sobs of joy and frustration). Then I thought about everything she had said for a couple of days. On May 26th, I sat […]
First Drafts
Your first draft is going to suck.Possibly your 4th and 5th one too.I probably revise about 3 X before I even let my beta readers read the manuscript.Then after I’ve received their comments and criticisms I edit again a couple […]
Cussing
Warning!!! This post contains lamely-disguised contractions of bad words. When I had my record label we used to make fun of rappers who used the word motherf**ker to excess, especially those who just inserted it willy nilly to make the […]