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I am now on staff at Pacific San Diego, a glossy monthly. Will be expanding and adding fiction, theater and film and book reviews, and other stuff...

Two short noir novels due from Black Mask Books: Shabbytown and The Trouble with Tramps.  Both are homages -- the first to Raymond Carver and the second to Orrie Hitt.


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I have started a short novel called BILL: A Short Novelthat is serialzied on Twitter -- each segment told is tweets.

Follow the story of a whacky Hollywood doctor here:

http://twitter.com/Bill_a_novel

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It's all about Raymond Carver today -- and the whole month of April.

Crit book way overdue...biography due March 2010,

Will be doing writer's audio commentary for DVD extras of The Watermelon, out this summer in a package deal from Celebrity Video Distribution.

Will be shooting sort doc in Tijuana early April.

May be writing a book on micro blogging for Polity, a great academic publisher in the UK.

Got copy ed's notes for my story, "The Barbing Wrecking Yard," to be ( Read more... )

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 A literay aquaintance received copies of his first novel and turned 30 at the same time -- he blogs about it here.  His excitement in this double milestone moment (first book, turning 30) reminded me of some things...things in the past now...and made me think...my first novel came out when I was 27: The Naughty Yard (San Francisco: Permeable Press ( Read more... )

 It is time to look back and look at 2008 -- what did I succeed at, what were my failures? What were my accomplishments, and what did I fail to accomplish? Did I do anything significant or worthwhile in 2008, or did I waste it all away with sleep, stripper bars, and staring at the TV (the 3 deadly S's)? I always feel like I am not doing enough ( Read more... )

Slept a lot this weekend. Not sure why. May be the cold weather. Of course this puts me back on all the things that need to be done...

Today, worked on:

Edits/changes for my article on bouncers for the January 8, 2009 cover story of the SD Reader. To promote the story and the Reader, I will be making morning news appearances on local FOX, NBC, ( Read more... )

After some shifting around and discussion with editor, I sent over the ms. of Pictures of Houses with Water Damage as I'd like the 19 stories to be in order. The order is, I feel, thematically sound.

This could be a bit premature since the collection is not due out until 2010, and from now until galley time, some stories may be taken out, I may ( Read more... )