marquisdd's 8/29 entry makes me remember writing the last paragraphs of Soul Kitchen days before we evacuated: "How the hell did we ever end up with so much good luck? Rickey wondered. What if something bad happened to balance it out? Then he thought of everything that had happened over the last few months, and he began to laugh. If the balancing hadn't ( Read more... )

As of today, The Green Goddess officially has its liquor license! Swing by 307 Exchange Alley and have a Green Fuse, a Sultan's Dream, or one of their many other delicious specialty cocktails to celebrate. If you do not imbibe of the grain and the grape, they have lots of virgin cocktails too ( Read more... )

I took the Mary Sue Litmus Test for my earliest and most recent "autobiographical" characters. (I use "autobiographical" not to suggest that the characters' lives have resembled mine in any way, but because they were the characters I most identified with/felt I resembled while writing the stories in question.)

Nothing from Lost Souls:

Your Mary ( Read more... )

I spent a week training myself to wake up early so we could get a good start in Grand Isle, and now I keep finding myself up at ungodly hours. It won't last once Chris gets his restaurant open*, but for now, I suppose it is all right for gardening purposes ( Read more... )

The first of the blank books goes out tomorrow -- to Spain, where my books have been before, but I have not. I've finished the second and third books in the three-book St. Francis of Assisi series and will probably put them up tomorrow. The first one is already up, along with the lovely black and red Goth Deluxe journal. (That translucent, veined ( Read more... )

Until today, due to Internet avoidance issues, I hadn't looked at my gmail account in about two weeks. I'll try to get to the many messages there soon ( Read more... )

Yes, well, when I found out Livejournal had not only a tiki theme but a purple tiki theme, what else could I do? I've also started using tags, which appeal to the part of my nature that enjoys alphabetizing, making lists, and such. So far I've tagged my entries back through June of this year. Eventually I'd like to do as many as possible, but given ( Read more... )

Tracking down a purchase link to Alcool for an inquiring reader, I found one customer review (4 stars) on the page. This is how Babelfish translated it ( Read more... )

For those who read French, the French website Fluctuat has a new interview with me and a review of Liquor (Alcool in the language of love). From what I can make out, the French reviewer seems to see a stronger and more obvious connection between my older novels and Liquor than all the American reviews that claim I've done a 180-degree turn and ( Read more... )

I just read the following quote on (of all places) Letters From Johns, a site where men talk about their experiences with prostitutes, which I happened upon thanks to susiebrightfeed:

... that line that Anthony Hopkins used in Legends of the Fall ... "Organized religion is for those who have no internal morality compass and need outside assistance."I haven't ( Read more... )