Tuesday Quick Notes

My day job collection of classic ghost stories set among the bustling marketplaces of Edo Japan, Apparitions, is out now.


And it's hot. If you like supernatural fiction, or Japan, or class struggle, this is your book. And let's show the booktrade that we don't only want ghost stories in Sept and Oct, dammit.

Aspiring writers might want to take my four-week online class on beginnings, middles, and endings.

An actual socialist publication on the limits of the supposedly 'socialist' Obamacare.

So far the baby's favorite songs are "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys and an acoustic cover of "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensryche. By favorite I mean he doesn't spit up when he hears them.