7 X 7: Seven-Years of Herotica 7:
Writing, Publishing, Diversity and Political Correctness
Herotica 7, a collection of erotic fiction I edited in 2003, has suddenly and without fanfare finally been published. (The first print run of 2000 sold out, but a second printing is on the way.) Amazon shows it as a re-issue, [...]
As some readers may know, I recently uploaded my novel, Halfway to the Stars, on Scribd, a relatively new service that offers unpublished/unpublishable books for sale. I’d only sent it out to a few agents/editors since completing it two years ago, and then stopped trying to publish it: after four previous novels I no longer [...]
You can buy a copy of my novel, Halfway to the Stars, at Scribd, for a mere 5 bucks. I’m trying this out. If anyone else has used Scribd I’m interested in hearing your stories.
Hard to believe, but the United Kingdom just named the first female Poet Laureate, after almost 400 years of male poets holding the post. I guess we’ve finally arrived–you can’t get much higher than Poet Laureate, right? Hey, it pays around five thousand pounds a year, in exchange for which she has to write odes [...]
Back when my children were small, I used to run away from home now and then to write. Or I’d anxiously await a holiday or school vacation, when they’d go off to their father’s for a week or two. Once, when they were teenagers and I was desperate to finish a novel, I left them [...]
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m freaking out. The floods in the Midwest and the fires in California have me thinking that the effects of global warming are no longer theoretical. Nor are they just a future possibility: it’s happening. While it’s true that this is fire season in California, some of the [...]
Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York
By Marge Piercy
In Sex Wars Marge Piercy takes on another historical era, once again making me wish they’d teach history this way in school. The time is post-Civil War up to 1915, the place, New York City, and three of the four main characters are real people—Elizabeth [...]
Love You To Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising A Child With Special Needs
Edited by Suzanne Kamata / Beacon Press / May 2008 /
This just out: A collection of fiction, non-fiction, memoir and poetry about the experience of parenting a child with “special needs,” i.e., disability, chronic health [...]
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 1920
I thought I had a pretty good education; I know it was superior to what the poor puppies get in public school today. Hell, I even went to college. So how come I’m spending my adulthood reading the so-called classics? Are there just too many for school to cover them [...]
