Over at Fat Plum, my colleagues and I have been running a new blog, Sticky Notes. In keeping with Fat Plum’s mission of providing “juicy solutions for today’s writer,” we’re posting information and links related to writing and publishing. Sticky Notes is my first adventure in co-blogging, so I’m eager to see whether sharing the …
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Special delivery
This afternoon, UPS delivered a package to me. (Two posters from the Bonny Doon Vineyard, of wine labels designed by Ralph Steadman. Quite cool. The company also offers fun t-shirts and other goodies, and lots of wine that cannot be delivered by mail within the borders of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.) Because the package was …
Small improvements
For those concerned and gentle souls who asked how the bathroom renovation is going: I reached the “throw money at the problem to make it go away” stage, a little early I believe, and as a result progress has continued. No word from Todd the Tile Guy on the next stage, though. (Click the link …
Demolition
After two days of tearing and scraping, the old bathroom tile is now all gone. The place smells horrible, due to the toxic particles of old adhesive that have been released into the air. Click the link below for photos of the destruction.
The destruction begins
Tomorrow Mike the Handyman will begin tearing out my bathroom, in phase one of the Great Renovation. He was supposed to start today but called in sick, so I have had a bonus 24 hours of controlled panic. I have dreaded this project, but it’s inescapable. Here’s why: The turquoise and mauve color combo is …
Uglydolls redux
Several recent visitors found this site by searching for “uglydolls” on Google. I mentioned some time back that I’m impressed with how the creators of Uglydolls developed a following and built the brand through nonstandard methods and good image management. Other than that, this site hasn’t been much of a resource on the subject. So …
Now I’m wishing I was sitting at a cafe on the Rive Gauche
I missed this pointless Hemingway diversion yesterday. I travelled to Europe with my sister Laura a few weeks after I graduated college. I wouldn’t have gone but for her: She wanted to travel but our parents wouldn’t let her go alone, so she talked/bullied me into it. It was a great trip, but she and …
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Juicy
The launch of my new venture has taken most of my time lately. It is Fat Plum: We’re beginning by offering workshops, private consultations on writing and publishing, manuscript reviews and edits, and so on. Soon we’ll expand into writer-focused products. And then we’ll start publishing books and other cool stuff. We have very grand …
Dancing as fast as I can
To any would-be Inkburns contributors, Inkburns writers waiting for contracts, neglected clients, and abandoned friends who are reading this blog to discover clues as to why you have not received a response to your submission/contract/query-about-your-web-update/email of several weeks ago: I am truly sorry. Things are just nutsy busy here. I hope to get to your …
In a New York state of mind
Tremble has been on a roll lately. Of course, last night he did a reading at the “Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions” so we shouldn’t expect anything new today or perhaps tomorrow. But there’s much to enjoy with the recent posts. I had the good fortune to be in NYC in September on a …