All right, Freedomlandians, here’s your first look at the Device. Fear it. Also, note that this is the ad-free version. Thankfully, I’m not the only who noticed that, so from Buzzfeed, here are a couple of more realistic takes on the Google Glasses phenomenon.
Tag Archive: Freedomland
Jun 28
She’s Not There…
I thought it was bad when my Dad turned into an abusive monster, my parents split, and my Mum dragged us back to America. I thought it was bad living in the most shite town ever, Colorado Springs. Hell, I thought it was bad when my sister Cassie disappeared off the face of the earth …
Jun 21
Cannot Be Unthought.
When I went to undergrad at Colorado College, I was a writing tutor. I remember one day a girl came in with a literary theory paper about The Cat in the Hat. Her assignment was to pick a critical point of view and analyze The Cat in the Hat from said point of view. She’d …
Jun 06
Author Event in Redmond, WA
So, I’m pleased to announce that I have an upcoming booksigning at Soul Food Books in Redmond on June 19th! They are having some exciting Solstice-type festivities there, and I’ll be in to sign copies of Freedomland from 2-3PM! I recently had a conversation that went something like this: “So I have a booksigning coming …
May 29
The first rule about Fight Club….
So, I was just writing a fight scene in “Changeling,”* a real fists-flying-guns-drawn fight scene. It made me think of two things: 1. I don’t write fight scenes very often. In Freedomland, there are no actual FIGHT scenes. There are people dying gruesomely scenes and blowing stuff up scenes, but no hand-to-hand combat, period. 2. …
May 26
Searching for my readers…
This past weekend I spent most of my time in Capitol Hill at the Richard Hugo House‘s writing conference, Finding Your Readers in the 21st Century. Its focus wasn’t craft, but rather marketing, publishing, publication, and all those other things that writers do that aren’t writing. This is something I’d been hungering for, and I …
May 15
Author event today!
I know this is short notice, but I’m pleased to announce that I have a booksigning today at the Dragon’s Lair (a game/comic shop) in Bellevue at 3:30PM. Hopefully I’ll be able to do a bit of a reading, too. So, Seattle/Eastside peeps, come show your support! If you have my book and have just …
May 10
Le sigh.
Turns out after I spent far too much time and effort stressing out over how to get my book distributed through Ingram…that happens automatically with iUniverse. My book can be ordered by independent bookstores whenever. It’s listed as “nonreturnable” because it’s print-on-demand, but I can totally convince bookstores they should buy copies to sell. Holler. …
Jan 18
My Dystopian Future Is Coming To Pass du jour
So, one of my buddies sent me a link that proves we are all going to technological hell in a handbasket. It’s about how kids perceive technology and how quickly that changes…today’s high school students outrank me in terms of texting and myspace, my preschoolers are going to grow up thinking that the Kindle is …
Jan 16
Scene vs. Summary
One of the basic tricks in a writer’s Bag-O-Tricks is knowing when to use scene, and when to use summary. What the crap does that mean? Well, scene is like a movie: the events are happening in real time, you’re watching them, there we go. It may or may not involve direct dialogue. For example: …