Countdown Promotion for ‘Dedicated Idiocy’
I’m jumping on the bandwagon with Amazon’s new promotional option for ebooks. It’s called a Countdown promotion, and the earlier you get in on it, the better a deal you’ll get. Stop by the Amazon page for my book, “Dedicated Idiocy: A Personal History of the Penn State Monty Python Society” between Friday, November 29 and Tuesday, December 2 to get the Kindle book at a greatly reduced price. The earlier you get there, the better the deal will...
Read MoreThanksgiving Week Break
This weekend, my 3-year-old was battling the stomach flu, and I wasn’t feeling terribly chipper myself, so I’m going to take the week off from publishing Wild Violet. The experience has made me grateful for my normally healthy son, who is mostly cheerful even when battling illness. What do you have to be grateful...
Read MoreWild Violet Featured Works: Week of Nov. 18 (Fighting The Man)
It’s easy to become frustrated with bureaucracy and institutions in their many forms. This week, Wild Violet’s contributors take a humorous, perceptive look at some of those frustrations. In Nancy S.M. Waldman’s short story, “Dirty Money,” a bank teller learns about an old lady’s deep, dark (and possibly illegal) financial secret. In Saul Greenblatt’s humor piece, “My Duffel Bag Tried to Kill Me,” a soldier in the process of being discharged battles military bureaucracy. In John Pyle’s essay, “Kafka and Cable,” he relays...
Read MoreWild Violet Featured Works: Week of Nov. 11 (Life’s Journey)
As the weather grows colder and the holiday season nears, it’s a perfect time to reflect on life’s journey with this week’s contributors: Deborah H. Doolittle’s poem, “Pick a Path with Heart,” uses a fortune cookie as a springboard for contemplation. Matthew LaFreniere’s poem, “Dinner at Grandma’s,” provides a glimpse at a woman’s life through the objects she passes on to her grandson. John Grey’s poem, “Dialogue with Myself,” looks back at the moment of his birth to make sense of his place in his...
Read MoreSpecial Weekend Promotion
This weekend is the annual science-fiction convention Philcon, where I will once more be a panelist. As a special promotion, the Kindle version of my essays book, The Art of Life, is free today through Tuesday, November 12. If you haven’t already read it, stop by and pick up a copy. Then tell your friends. I’d like to introduce as many people as possible to the book this weekend. I’m proud of this collection, but since I put it out the same year as giving birth to my unfailingly energetic son, I have had difficulty finding the time to promote it. I guarantee that if you read...
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