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Vote for "Punk Rock Saved My Ass" contributor's band, "Faulty Conscience."

If you're in the Boston, MA area, come out and cheer for the band Faulty Conscience as they compete in the 2010 Rompetition, an event promoting unsigned and talented bands in Massachusetts. Two anthology contributors, Chestnut and Squallie, are in the band, so you can show your support for them and the anthology.



Feb. 19th, starting at 8:30 (Faulty Conscience performs at midnight).

McGann's Pub (197 Portland St. Boston, MA 02114)



If you're like me and don't live anywhere near Boston, you c...

Blogging advice from Blissdom

Continuing on the blog theme, Ellen at the parenting blog, To The Max, wrote a great post about what she learned at the blogging conference Blissdom (there are blogging conferences? Yes, as a matter of fact, there are, and they sound useful and fun). Her suggestions aren't just for "mommy-bloggers;" anyone who writes a blog and wants to make it as professional and entertaining as possible can learn from her post, especially from her links to other sites (Blogging 101 sounds mighty helpful).



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Blogging is for Old People?

I just finished reading an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a recent Pew report on the internet habits of the "millennium" generation. Here is an excerpt (click the link to read the full report):



The results indicate blogging has become so 2006, when 28 percent of the two groups studied, teens 12 to 17 and young adults 18 to 29, actively blogged.



By the fall of 2009, that percentage dropped off to only 14 percent of teens and 15 percent of young adults as blogging "lost its...

The Downside of DIY

Punk rock made a huge impression on me in college, and ever since, I have lived by the spirit of punk-DIY, which means "Do It Yourself." No, I'm not talking about home improvement, I'm talking about not waiting for someone else to sanction my creativity with their publishing contract or professional approval.  My heroes are the builders of the Burnside skate park in Portland, Oregon; poet and artist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, creator of City Lights bookstore and press; and Ani DiFranco, singer an...

The Ticking Clock

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On Friday I went to the premier of the play, The Ticking Clock, written by Jody Gerhman and directed by Rose Bell. Early last year, I was a member of the development team for this project, which interviewed hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds about their feelings around motherhood and their biological clock. Those interviews were then transformed into several different monologues, strung together by Jody to create a script that is both poignant and funny. Unfortunately I wasn't able ...

Back of book info, revision number 178

Okay everyone, tell me what you think about this version for the Punk Anthology. It's still rough, so I know I need to polish it more, and I know my copy-editor will have a few words to say about it, but do you think this is closer to the type of copy that speaks to our target reader as well as compelling enough to make you want to buy a copy?

Punk is the only music genre I know that consistently opens its mouth about taboo social and economic subjects in our society. Nothing is more honest...

Medusa's Muse earned a profit! Why do I feel so guilty?

After checking and double checking all the receipts and sales numbers, I discovered something very exciting. Medusa's Muse had made a profit last year. A slim profit, less than $50.00, but a profit nonetheless. Book sales were low, but so were costs (funny how those two go hand in hand). This means under the rules of the IRS I get to keep calling Medusa's Muse a business. According to the IRS, a business must make a profit in three out of five years. However, it doesn't say how much you have ...

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar 


Of a surf-tormented shore, 


And I hold within my hand 


Grains of the golden sand


How few! yet how they creep 


Through my fingers to the deep, 


While I weep - while I weep! 


O God! ...

Die Vampire Die! Stop sucking my creative juices

A friend sent me this song from You Tube about dealing with all those psychic, ant-creative vampires who keep you from writing, painting or anything else artistic you love to do. Very funny. Contains some cursing, so don't play this at work.

Is there a way to do it all?

Thank you Melinda and Corrie for leaving those great comments for my last blog post. You got me thinking about how we creative types juggle our families, jobs and writing. What is the secret for "doing it all?" Can a woman write a book, raise her children, work a full time job, and keep her sanity all at once? Back in October, 2008, I wrote a blog post about taming my to-do list. Today, I'll write about taming my life.

Growing up in the 1970's, we girls heard over and over that thanks to Wome...