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The Delusion of the Artist

Anybody who writes anything beyond a private diary has some degree or arrogance, delusion, or both. I include myself in this. I am somewhat deluded as a writer. I like to think more deluded than arrogant. Don’t worry though, if you happen to be a writer. I don’t think these need be permanent, or even …

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The Love Books Festival, featuring…Me.

In a month, will cross the river out of Maryland and into nearby Lovettsville, Virginia, where I will set up my first ever author booth at my first ever book festival. Called the Love Books Festival, it will feature about 40 local authors for signings, workshops, and lectures. I myself will only be selling and …

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Second Look: Lodestone Crossing

It’s a long book of poetry. Experimental poetry. An oddity to end this series of looking back on my books, but such was the chronology. Lodestone Crossing Is a long poem broken into smaller chapters, derived from several sessions of “blackout” poetry. It’s a process wherein one takes a preexisting text, and removes (or blacks …

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Tell Me About Yourself…If You Must

If you’re a writer, you are lightyears ahead of the game if you love to talk to strangers, especially if you love talking about yourself. The great irony of a words-based calling is that the need to construct sentences and words in an efficient, evocative, memorable manner does not stop even with the completion of …

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Announcing Nazi Lavender, My full stage play now on New Play Exchange,

In the last few years of novel work, I have had less time to focus on or even mention my other writing. That ends today with the announcement of my play Nazi Lavender now appearing on New Play Exchange…a site that lets interested parties read script by up and coming playwrights for possible production. Here …

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