It’s Official! Black Orchid Blues Has Been Sold!

July 30, 2010


Akashic Books, the publisher of such wonderful fiction as Bernice McFadden’s Glorious, has done me the honor of picking up Black Orchid Blues. I have my first meeting with publisher Johnny Temple today. Yes!

Autograph

“Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black” – Tim Wise

April 22, 2010

Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure – the ones who are driving the [...]

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Rejection Notes

April 19, 2010
Tinkers, by Paul Harding

E.W. Count sent me the heads up on this article in the New York Times, Mr. Cinderella: From Rejection Notes to the Pulitzer, and I was very grateful she did. The timing couldn’t have been better. The story essentially concerns writer Paul Harding and his book, Tinkers, an apparently literary (as opposed to crassly commercial) work [...]

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Bouchercon: To Go or Not to Go

April 18, 2010

That is the question. Whether to empty my piggy bank down to its last farthing and throw chance to the wind, whether to risk it all for one last big fling, in the far distant yonder, that I must decide. Hmmm. B’con will be in San Francisco this year. With bestselling author Lee Child as [...]

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Allergies

April 17, 2010

Image by Miriam Cardoso de Souza – ” BIENAL PB CXS SUL/2010 via Flickr Ugg. The air must be full of pollen. Woke up with an aching stuffy head, feeling not good. I guess the allergy season has arrived. Could’ve felt worst, though. Am ashamed cause it made me short-tempered with my cats. I yelled [...]

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