Because WomYn are better together!
The first-ever Bella Books and Spinsters Ink Y Tour is taking place June 4-7 in Denver! Read More
Sleepless in the City that Never Sleeps
The sky is slowly lightening outside my hotel room window. It’ll be a while before it can compete with the marquees on Times Square, which run all night and day with blazing neon and massive LED displays. One of the marquees is the iconic Coca-Cola sign. A while ago I noticed it wasn’t red and white, and wondered if gray and white were colors for the Witching Hour. Then I saw that “inside” the sign were animated workers doing amusing clean-up tasks. I wondered how many people were awake to see the fun. Read More
Fun with First Lines
One of the fun sessions at the GALLA Festival was Heidi Boehringer‘s Writing Tales from the Edge. The session was designed to get writers focused on the act of writing… just keeping the pen moving without censoring. One exercise was finishing a short scene based on the opening line from a famous novel. With apologies to Edmund White for butchering his opening to Hotel de Dream, I had a great deal of fun with the inspiration of
Cora never thought for a moment her young husband could die.
1st Annual Gay and Lesbian Literary Arts Festival (GALLA)
I’ll be returning to south Florida again in 2009, to appear at Galla, a new literary arts festival! Read More
Why the Y? Or, Good in Spite of the Bad and Ugly
Life has been so busy these last few weeks that I haven’t been sure what to blog about. Should I stay with the strictly personal, discuss the flu that’s run through our household that I may yet still not entirely escape? There’s wrestling meets twice a week and tournaments on Saturdays, and the general joys of raising children. The past tense in the statement, “My partner used to work for a really big bank” and the adjustment to her being home every day and the basic reality of dealing with this economy and the trials it is placing on all the people we know. Read More