Daniel José Older's Blog, page 7
October 17, 2012
The End Part 1: Intro
I’ll be posting a series of thoughts on what makes endings great. This is the introductory one. of course, any blog about endings is gonna [...]
October 14, 2012
The Salsa Nocturna Epigraph
The first edition of Salsa Nocturna went to press before we had a chance to uh…clear all the copyright hurdles to get this in here, [...]
August 26, 2012
Salsa Nocturna Liner Notes: Phantom Overload
Phantom Overload is modeled after those old Dashiell Hammett stories where some shadowy organization tosses their weary operative into a local political schism that [...]
Salsa Nocturna Liner Notes: Forgive Me My Tangents
This is only barely a short story, but it has a special place in my heart. I say that because there’s really only the loosest [...]
August 5, 2012
Salsa Nocturna Liner Notes: Love Is A Fucking River
Of course, the title came first. I don’t know where it came from, but when it did come I knew it had to be a [...]
August 3, 2012
Salsa Nocturna Liner Notes: Tall Walkin’ Death
This might have been the most fun story to write. For one thing, it was one of those glorious pieces that flowed out pretty simply- [...]
August 1, 2012
Salsa Nocturna Liner Notes: The Passing
I honestly couldn’t say exactly where this story came from; it surfaced like the stories in CiCi’s own inner garden of stories and unfolded before [...]
The Not So Sweet Inbetween
She’s a frail middle aged woman in a motorized wheelchair and she called because her teenage sons are stressing her out. When we get there, [...]
July 23, 2012
Salsa Nocturna Liner Notes: Red Feather & Bone
The great Sheree Renée Thomas, who wrote the introduction to this book and midwifed many of its stories into existence, invited me to join her [...]
July 22, 2012
Salsa Nocturna Liner Notes: The Collector
While most of my stories filter my experiences on the ambulance into some fictionalized form (see: the New York Council Of The Dead and various [...]
