Some time ago, a writing mentor of mine encouraged me to tap into my working-class background as a “differentiator,” to help promote myself. It has not really paid off. I think the only people who care are those who picked Read more
An annual accounting of my writing for the year. I had a novella come out this year, some short stories, and a game!
I despise hand-selling my books. The whole reason I’m not a self-published author is I want someone else to do that. The shame is painful. The embarrassment. I feel exactly how I used to feel when my mom would ask Read more
Call me a Luddite: I’m fed up with predictive large language models. I’m exhausted with it. I gave the stuff the good old college try. I looked at what it could do, how to program it. I started way before Read more
In the book, “The Battle-Fields of 1866,” there is an essay by Edward Dicey about Heligoland, a small German archipelago in the North Sea near Denmark. In the essay, Dicey records the oldest known version of a now-famous adage: What Read more
I was fixing this professor’s computer, and we got along great. I was one of only two Unix support personnel at the university and he was a Unix user. He was also from Turkey and made me Turkish Coffee every Read more
Reading an article on Neil Gaiman, one thing that really struck me was how many women ended up being victimized also as free labor: nannies only paid when it was worthwhile to bribe them to sign an NDA. The article Read more