The warmth is back. Today's high was 70˚F and sunny.

I was up at about 6:45 this morning, and while sun rose, I found myself reading all the old issues of Billy Martin's "Purple Proze" newsletters from back in the 1990s (Issue No. 1 is July 1995). Which sent me to all sorts of places. Like my own newsletter, Salmagundi. Our lives were so very ( Read more... )

An odd day. Not unpleasant, just...odd. The weather was great, sunny and a high of 86˚F; currently, it's 83˚F. (And if you ever wonder about such things, my ideal temperature range is low to mid eighties Fahrenheit.)

I was not unproductive. I just was not as productive as I wanted to be. I edited the introduction for Vile Affections and sent it to ( Read more... )

Four photos (behind the cut) from NYC, a trip me and Poppy (docbrite) took together, July 14-17, 1997. She writes about that week in one of the Guilty But Insane essays, "New York Diary," where I appear simply as "Hello Kitty." I was still living in Athens, just barely. This was the month before I moved back to Birmingham. Silk had sold to Penguin, I was ( Read more... )

By now, everyone ought to have received Sirenia Digest No. 8. As always, comments are welcome and encouraged.

I just noticed that Amazon is offering Daughter of Hounds paired with docbrite's latest, Soul Kitchen, the both for only $21.94. I call it a peculiar and yet fortuitous and flattering pairing, and you should take advantage of it while the offer ( Read more... )

Okay, well this is something new. I have been accused, in an Amazon.com "review" of The Value of X, of uncorrupting Poppy. To be more precise, one Faye S. Lewis (I'd almost forgotten about her) has claimed that I "upbraided" Poppy for writing erotica and that Poppy took my "advice" on the subject and this led to the changes in her work between ( Read more... )