Fran Wilde’s latest Cooking the Books is with Joe and Gay Haldeman.  It's a blast...especially if you're making a pizza.

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...wherein I get interviewed about a work in progress, food in the 19th century, and even give forth with a recipe.
Recipes for Darkness

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A terrific afternoon today, spent in the company of the ever-magnificent Delia Sherman, who'd come into Philadelphia for a reading at The Big Blue Marble from her newest book, The Freedom Maze.  Good lunch at Maido in Narberth, PA, followed by time spent over cups of tea, while we discussed the state of bookstores, publishing, the teaching of ( Read more... )

...Or Maybe This is You and Your Agent.

Courtesy of Barbara Webb, from The Mitchell & Webb Look (no relation):

OK-Not This

 Writing...it's like spinning plates on sticks.
At The Liars Club Blog today.  See if it isn't.

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Nancy Fulda has posted an interesting blog on writing workshops:  “Critique Groups as an Unreliable Narrator.”

It kicked loose some thoughts I’ve maintained about writing workshops for some time. I’ve been a member numerous times of the Sycamore Hill Workshop in North Carolina, and Judith Berman’s Nameless Workshop in Philadelphia (now defunct), and ( Read more... )

Read a list of neologisms in the NY Times today, which includes: "Coffice: the coffee shop where you go to work." At last I know what to call the place other than "The Bagel Shop."

Arguably, it could also define where vampires work.  I'll have to look into that.

Meanwhile, anybody wants me, I'll be in my coffice.

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There's a lovely essay by Ann Patchett in which she says "I don't think anyone has ever started out thinking, 'I'm picking up this cello because one day I want to be the First Cello in the Vienna Philharmonic.' Playing the cello is about learning; it's about the love of music."*

It’s funny how we acknowledge the learning curve in playing an ( Read more... )

Marshall Payne Interviews the Great Grand & Glorious James Patrick Kelly in a super-sekrit interview:

http://marshallpayne1.livejournal.com/89594.html

The September 26 episode of Hour of the Wolf, featuring an interview with and reading by yours truly, is now posted for streaming at your convenience.  It includes a live reading of "The Comeuppance of Creegus Maxin" for Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's forthcoming anthology, The Beastly Bride.

http://hourwolf.com/toc.html

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