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September 15, 2013
"Feral Children"
Here's another of the new stories from the ebook edition of The Kind I'm Likely to Get : A Collection
. I wrote this some years ago, when a friend said something like, "You should write a story about your dogs but make them human." I'm certain that he meant something entirely different from what came out. So here's a story about a man who adopts two feral children and then finds his community threatening ban them after one of them bites. Yet, as strange as the story may be, i...
. I wrote this some years ago, when a friend said something like, "You should write a story about your dogs but make them human." I'm certain that he meant something entirely different from what came out. So here's a story about a man who adopts two feral children and then finds his community threatening ban them after one of them bites. Yet, as strange as the story may be, i...
September 2, 2013
Happy Birthday!
In New Orleans, the tradition is to pin money to the shirt of anyone celebrating a birthday, so by the end of the day, they are walking around with a cash corsage. Having a September 2nd birthday, I usually let it come and go without paying much attention or crossing anyone's path. It's often the first day of school, or Labor Day or we're evacuating for a hurricane. But a few people have asked if I'm accepting gifts this year and the truth is...I could use some cash. Specifically,...
August 23, 2013
Elizabeth Crane Brandt reads "Missing"
Here's the first of the "Kind I'm Likely to Get" videos: Short story writer Elizabeth Crane Brandt reads my short story "Missing." It is one of the four bonus stories featured in the ebook version of
The Kind I'm Likely to Get
, and it is also featured in the upcoming photography book Show and Tell by William Greiner.
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August 19, 2013
The Kind I'm Likely to Get video project
Earlier this summer, my short story collection The Kind I'm Likely to Get was reissued as an ebook with some extra bonus stories included. The release was a bit of an experiment for me and for Trajectory, the ebook publisher, who previously has only worked with illustrated children's books and graphic novels such as the old, wonderful Classics Illustrated, which they have also reissued as ebooks. It took a little longer than expected to roll out the new/old book across all the distribution ch...
August 16, 2013
10 week online writing workshop starts September 3rd
Earlier this summer I put together an eight week workshop. It was the first time I'd taught online in quite a while, and the first time I'd ever taught online "on my own," meaning without an affiliation that dictated the format and platform I'd be using. There are quite a number of online teaching platforms available--and many of them suck. But I've found one that I really like: Ruzuku. So I'll be doing another ten week course beginning September 3rd. Some of my previous students have already...
July 14, 2013
More of the Kind I'm Likely to Get
It's been two months since the ebook edition of The Kind I'm Likely to Get : A Collection showed up on Amazon, and we're still waiting for Nook and iBooks to upload the book to their catalogs. But Water Street Press has a great review on their site, with Lynn Vannucci doing exactly what I did in putting the book back together: appreciating a visit to the old stories, first published in 1999, and finding new something more to chew on in the four additional stories and notes that I'...
June 6, 2013
New Orleans Writing Workshop Tuesdays 7-9pm June 18th - August 6th; Online edition starts June 19th
Whether working in fiction or nonfiction, the challenge all writers face is in creating narratives that ring true to the reader. This workshop will allow students to dip into both genres--short story and creative non-fiction--and measure their work against the same literary standards: character, conflict, detail and use of language. Each student will be able to workshop at least two full-length stories or essays during the course. In addition, students will be given short, focused, weekly ass...
New Orleans Writing Workshop Tuesdays 7-9pm June 18th - July 30th; Online edition starts June 19th
Whether working in fiction or nonfiction, the challenge all writers face is in creating narratives that ring true to the reader. This workshop will allow students to dip into both genres--short story and creative non-fiction--and measure their work against the same literary standards: character, conflict, detail and use of language. Each student will be able to workshop at least two full-length stories or essays during the course. In addition, students will be given short, focused, weekly ass...
New Orleans Writing Workshop Tuesdays 7-9pm June 10th - July 30th; Online edition starts June 11th
Whether working in fiction or nonfiction, the challenge all writers face is in creating narratives that ring true to the reader. This workshop will allow students to dip into both genres--short story and creative non-fiction--and measure their work against the same literary standards: character, conflict, detail and use of language. Each student will be able to workshop at least two full-length stories or essays during the course. In addition, students will be given short, focused, weekly ass...
June 4, 2013
Get the "I'm a Good Dog" official tour shirt--available again for the first time!
Last summer, as I set out to plan a tour for I'm a Good Dog, I created a Kickstarter campaign that succeeded beyond my expectations. One of the rewards was this double-sided tour shirt. The campaign did so well, we ran out of shirts, and we've been trying to get a second run to finish off a few incomplete orders. Meanwhile, I've continued touring (New Hampshire, Maine, Boston in the past month alone) and accumulating more expenses, since the proceeds of my book sales to rescue groups and book...
