Longtime readers will recall that last year I participated in National Novel Writing Month, quitting halfway through due to exhaustion and/or ambivalence. This year I will not be attempting to write a novel in 30 days, although I probably should. You know what else I should probably do? Get a job. But I’m not going [...]
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Covers Magazine, Fall 2008
The latest issue of Covers Magazine is out, featuring a couple articles by me (i.e., Conlan). You can read the issue online by clicking the Covers Digital Edition link on their home page. If you would like your very own physical copy, you can buy one somewhere around Fresno, probably. And no, I don’t know [...]
It’s Business Time
It’s now or never, that’s what I always say. Live and learn. The early bird drinks tequila. I think everything will be OK. I’m going legit (i.e., cardstock). Front: Back: Let’s do lunch.
Why I Am Not As Good As Hemingway
For years I’ve wondered why I’m not a famous writer. I mean, I seem to have all the ingredients: proficiency with language and sincerity of emotion, a romantic worldview coupled with a healthy disdain for humanity, and of course the crippling depression. The formula has worked for so many others. Faulkner and Fitzgerald are universal. [...]