Category Archives: Appearances

Mona Lisa’s Secret
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I was invited to write a guest column for Romancing the Blog. Was asked to submit a photo to be used as my icon.

And I thought this one might be … well …. me_age_6 It’s my kindergarten picture, and it has the Mona Lisa smile I gave the bouncy, bossy photographer who wanted me to give him a BIG smile. That was not going to happen. Because right at that moment, you see, I had no front teeth. I love this picture because of what you can’t see.

Wonder if that was Mona Lisa’s secret, too.

Anyway, as regards things you can’t see, or haven’t seen — anyone have a question I haven’t answered that you’d like to see as my guest column? Can’t promise I’ll use your suggestions — if there’s more than one, I’ll have to guarantee that I won’t be using at least half of them. But I figure it never hurts to ask.

Dragon Page Radio Air Dates
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Here are the air dates for the interview I did with Dragon Page:

Summer Brooks, producer: Mike says that the show with your interview will go out the week of September 26, which means that it’ll be available for download on the 26th, and will air on XM Satellite Channel 163 on October 2nd.

Along with the radio interview, I did a special segment that will only air on XM, discussing the writers’ community, my website, and the folks who read my books.

Mind-Boggling Question
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Reading this entry from Sheila’s blog, I confess to a moment of jaw-dropping, mind-blowing disbelief.

No. Not at Sheila’s continued, mysterious fascination with George Clooney. My tastes run much more to Vin Diesel and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. (I do not attempt to explain my tastes. I simply report them.)

But no. That one or more of her readers would ask if we were the same person.

She and I have speculated before that we were twins separated at birth. We have lived painfully similar lives; emphasis on the painful part. But …

Sheila does well over a million words a year. I expect her to make a breakthrough to a million words a month at some time in the not too distant future. I do … two books a year. Two. One really broke year, I did four, but those were short, and I was really broke. If Sheila and I were the same person, I would not be perpetually getting stalled and stuck and flummoxed by LAST GIRL DANCING. I would fly through it, because as best I can tell, Sheila has never, ever been simply, totally bollixed on a book. I plod, Sheila soars. I single-task at the (comparatively) stultifying rate of around 300,000 words per year. Sheila explodes with these amazing ideas; talking to her, you get this feeling that new universes are being born, fully formed, behind her eyes at a rate of about one per minute. Me? Not so much.

So, though no one has ever asked me that question, I will answer it. We ain’t the same person. But sonuvaSONUVAbitch — I wish we were.

Dreaming Talyn
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I dreamed the next section of Talyn so fully and in such detail that I was actually surprised and disappointed when I opened the manuscript this morning and it wasn’t there.

So now I’m typing in the dream I had before waking. This so rarely happens to me that it was almost a unique event — but when the muses hand you a gift, you take it and smile and run like hell before they change their minds.

So. Back to pages, before the edge wears off.