Posted by John Manchester on June 15, 2011 at 3:30pm View Blog EDITOR’S PICK JUNE 15, 2011 12:32PM RATE: 30 Flag My father and I on the Snake River in 1980 Seven years ago early in the morning of June 1st, my father’s nurse woke me to say, “Your father has passed.” I sat vigil, alone, at the…
Jennifer Egan, Great American Novelist
By Jennifer Egan: Invisible Circus (1995) Look at Me (2001) The Keep (2006) A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010) Pulitzer Prize My tastes in music range from high to low. It doesn’t faze me when my iPod shuffles from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis to the Carpenters. Both please me, though in different ways. It’s the…
Amanda Hocking, eBook Sensation
Note: I have expanded my posts here to include writing about writing. I am planning to self-publish my books and have been testing the waters. These three articles describe self-published authors who have made serious money selling their e-Books: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-meet-the-a-list-authors-of-self-publishing/ http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-02-09-ebooks09_ST_N.htm http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703838004576274813963609784.html These articles are mostly concerned with business – the threat self-publishing poses to…
Thank You, Open Salon!
Thank You, Open Salon! Posted by John Manchester on June 6, 2011 at 3:30pm View Blog JUNE 6, 2011 8:34AM RATE: 19 Flag I came to Open Salon a little over a year ago hoping to find readers. I found more. Good writers to enjoy, some of whose styles have influenced me. And I’ve made some friends, something I really…
Breakthrough
FOREST (Photo by Dawit Rezenè.) TREES Last fall was a tough time for me. The memoir I had worked on for years was rejected by all the agents I sent it too. The new website I had devoted much of a year and countless dollars to had not, as hoped , saved my business. Instead…
Convertible Dreams
EDITOR’S PICK MARCH 31, 2011 11:23AM RATE: 12 Flag Toyota Solara We bounced up the mountain on the dirt road, the undercarriage of our car clunking from time to time on one of the bigger bumps. I was following the directions Alec had given me the first time we came to visit, thirty years ago – “Just take…
I Say Grapefruit, You Say Pomplamoose
THE TWILIGHT ZONE – A LOST EPISODE, “Time Machine.” The unmistakable voice of Rod Serling, “In a small town somewhere in America a man finds a used item. He can’t help himself, he has to buy it, because it’s what’s he’s always wanted – a time machine. And the price can’t be beat. But maybe…
Valentine’s Day and the In-N-Out
LUMINOUS NEWS – FOOD EDITION Fox News: “We report. You decide.” Our Motto: “We decide (where to eat.) We report. You don’t get any.” Valentine’s day at the start of a San Francisco (working) vacation with Mrs. Muse. Where to celebrate? Chez Panisse is too fancy for our taste. But there’s Eiji in the Castro,…
Late Breaking!
The L. Muses, Mr. and Mrs. have moved! To San Francisco! For 3 weeks in the dead of winter. Mr. Muse is reported to be “inexpressibly sad” at the prospect of leaving this backyard scene: For this: Mr. M. loves a sense of drama, and will miss the heart in mouth anticipation, hearing snow crash…
Eight Miles High
I was fifteen in early 1966 when I heard Dylan sing, “Something’s happening, and you don’t know what it is…” He sang with an authority and conviction that convinced me he possessed some Great Secret. I didn’t know what was happening, but wanted to find out in the worst way. I stared at Bob’s face…
Luminous Muse
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