My wife Lynne (who is also my nurse these days) has been teaching 8th grade reading in the same school, Union Middle School, for 30 years. It's not novel anymore when we go out to bump into a former student. There are A Lot of them. So yesterday, JoSelle Vanderhooft did drop by my house to pick up some of my PR fliers to take to WHC to put on the ( Read more... )

I'm not quite done with my e-mailout PR campaign for Fairy BrewHaha at the Lucky Nickel Saloon (Yard Dog Press). I hope to finish today so I can move on to other writerly projects, but it might not work out. I still struggle with weakeness. After an hour or so on the computer, I need a nap. Strength coming back, but too dang slowly ( Read more... )

Got my box of Fairy BrewHaHa at the Lucky Nickel Saloon from Yard Dog Press yesterday. Most of them will go to my wife, tads, and a few other folk, but I'll have a couple to peddle on my bookshelf. Discreet Enquiries Welcome. I also got my contributor's copies of HP Lovecraft #4 with "Crickets, Everywhere" in it. If you'd like to read the story, ( Read more... )

I got another review of Pax Dakota. See it at (http://worldsofwonders.blogspot.com/2008/03/pax-dakota-ken-rand.html). Klausner did a review of Fairy BrewHaHa at the Lucky Nickel Saloon (the 2005 Five Star version), the ONLY review the book got. The ( Read more... )

I just got a PW review of Pax Dakota, a bad one. Look it up if you want to. I guess I was too subtle in the beginning in planting Watcher in Joseph Thorn; the editor thought Watcher showed up coincidentally. Ha. Or shall I blame thee review, saying they didn't get it? Nah. Move on ( Read more... )

With this morning's sale of a copy of In Their Own Words: The Port Chicago Letters, my total writerly income for 2008 is now $13.90. Can fame and fortune and dates with tall bimbos be far behind?
Here's an idea: if you're driving to World Con in Denver this year, and passing through Salt Lake as you do so, give me a call. Drop by.

Don't recall now where I heard this but it's so: Dave Truesdale has my short story "Crickets, Everywhere" (H.P. Lovecraft #4) on his recommended reading list. The story is also in Where Angels Fear ( Read more... )

Port Chicago book PR labels are done. Waiting for the shoe to drop on release of Fairy BrewHaHa and Where Angels Fear. Meanwhile, maybe I'll dive into my To Be Dude pile, neglected since early January, and see what needs immediate doing ( Read more... )

Today, I'm organizing my mail label list for the Port Chicago Isn't There Anymore prepublication campaign this spring. Maybe 250 or so names to contact. I'm waiting for Fairy BrewHaHa (Yard Dog Press) and Where Angels Fear (Fairwood Press) to be out "officially" to do an e-mail PR campaign, which should happen any day now. Bummer that both books ( Read more... )

Long time, no post. I've been concentrating on "recovering" from my January operation and the complications that followed. I ended up in the hospital three times for three surgeries. I put recovery in quotes because if I do recover (get back to the physical state I was in in December) it'll be many months. And then I may not recover after all, at ( Read more... )