I got a 'Welcome to the Firm!' type-note from the PopMatters editor! So sorry, crazy times at the office over the holidays, thanks for persisting and here's the instructions for signing on to the blog... oh, and a list of books available for review, let us know what you want to tackle...

So, to recap: I am having the time of my young life, hitting ( Read more... )

It's been something near a month now since PopMatters first proposed I join their blogging staff, and... since then, I am forced to conclude, they have been resolutely ignoring my happy note of acceptance.

One month and four resends later -- two to my original contact, one to the general proposal box, one to the personal box of another editor I'd ( Read more... )

'Too much,' I thought. "Don't see how November can top this," I wrote...

I'M GOING TO BE A BLOGGER AND BOOK REVIEWER ON POPMATTERS! I'M GOING TO BE A BLOGGER AND BOOK REVIEWER ON POPMATTERS! I'M --

Well, shoot, that was supposed to come out a lot more dignified.

But seriously. That article proposal I put in? Got a note back -- I suspect from the same ( Read more... )

 Heigh-ho, an audiobook publisher has just emailed to say they want to use my article on Bob & Ray for liner notes on a CD they're releasing this fall. I pointed them in the direction of PopMatters' publishers (being not entirely sure who owns the thing at this point, but I've never been sued before and don't intend to start now) and they have ( Read more... )

...the PopMatters one on the film Holiday, that is.

Yeah, I know, it's been awhile. Here I was patiently waiting to be notified the article was up, like last time, and turns out it's been on the go all along. Maybe that's a service only provided to novice authors, or ones who bug their editors to distraction (if there's a difference!), I don't know.

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...oh, lord, I don't know why I'm reacting to this in lolcat. But it's true: I heard back from my PopMatters editor this evening, and he's more than delighted to accept my Holiday piece. He was so delighted, in fact, that I'm blushing a little as I, er, carefully store the email away for rereading. On a regular basis.

Honestly, this is just the most ( Read more... )

OK, I'm officially on an upswing this week. Found a pair of slinky jeans that fit perfectly and everything. Down two sizes from last year's purchase, too. Turning thirty-eight? Hah! I laugh at turning thirty-eight!

Well, alright, I don't really. But the jeans definitely helped. So did the cute sneakers - do they still call them sneakers? I just ( Read more... )

So I finally heard back from PopMatters re: the column proposal - after a gentle nudge sent earlier this week. My idea is too unfocussed for their needs, they said. And that's all they said, leading me to believe there's a whole lot more they could've said.

Well...hey, it's an essential experience on every aspiring writer's resume, right? Right. ( Read more... )

Hey, remember that time I actually got published? Y'know, the article about the comedy...Right, moving on now.

So I've been giving a bit of thought to PopMatters again, in re: some of my essays past and hopefully future, and in browsing the Submissions request page came across...of all things...a call for monthly columnists.

What? OK, yes, it's a ( Read more... )

Public-service announcement: In reviewing the readership stats for the last couple days, I notice with increasing dismay that many people checking out my historical pieces are actually in Europe. Uh, yeah...sorry about that, guys. Any chance we can just write me off as a typical boneheaded goofball North American, chuckle indulgently and move on? ( Read more... )