April 13th Reading with Gina Frangello and Rob Roberge for San Diego Writers Ink
Fun Definitely Had by All Such an honor to read with Gina and Rob and to hear their wonderful words with their own particular inflections.
Guest Post: James Claffey’s Writing Process
My Writing Process Written by James Claffey Today I’m taking part in the #MyWritingProcessTour. It’s so interesting and instructive to see how other writers go about their work. My friend and Press 53 fellow, Bonnie ZoBell, nominated me. Her book, What Happened Here is an engrossing, brilliant book about fictional people and events centered on the actual Pacific Southwest [...]
Guest Blog: Susan Tepper’s Writing Process
The #MyWritingProcessTour Today I’m taking part in a #MyWritingProcessTour, in which writers answer four questions about their writing process and then tag other writers to answer the questions as well. Like an addict, I love hearing how other people do it, you know, and so I was particularly honored to be asked by the lovely [...]
Guest Blog: Tamara Linse’s Writing Process
The #MyWritingProcessTour Today I’m taking part in a #MyWritingProcessTour, in which writers answer four questions about their writing process and then tag other writers to answer the questions as well. Like an addict, I love hearing how other people do it, you know, and so I was particularly honored to be asked by the lovely [...]
Bonnie ZoBell: My Writing Process: Blog Tour
Today I'm taking part in the #MyWritingProcessTour. It's so interesting and instructive to see how other writers go about their work. I was nominated by my friend, Susan Tepper, writer extraordinaire. Be sure to get a copy of Susan's latest book, The Merrill Diaries, beautifully written and a thought-provoking romp through the U.S. and parts [...]
Eckleburg Book Club Selects The Whack-Job Girls
My chapbook, THE WHACK-JOB GIRLS, is recommended in the T. L. Eckleburg Book Review today, where I also recommend the beautiful new books by Jen Michalski (THE TIDE KING), Claudia Smith Chen (QUARRY LIGHTt), and Bill Yarrow (INCOMPETENT TRANSLATIONS AND INEPT HAIKU). See article here.
The Whimsical Words of Kyle Hemmings
Death is complicated, not to mention hard to write about. There are various approaches, some more entertaining than others. The risk is in the tone. One can fall into the deep abyss of fear and loneliness so many of us feel when it inevitably happens to those around us, the way our culture prefers. Or [...]
Guest Post: Merry-Go-Blog-Around: About Characters by Nate Tower
Gay Degani recently asked me to share some insight about my characters by responding to five questions. Here we go: 1. What Surprises You About Your Characters? And why? How little they represent me and the people I know. Oftentimes, my characters are nothing like me at all. Take the husbands in my recently released short [...]
Book Trailer for What Happened Here!
Yay! A book trailer for the new book, What Happened Here. Thank you, John Ray Gutierrez! Thank you, Mel Peters! Cast: Marko Fong, Nate Towers, Leslie Shimazaki, James Claffey, Kate Paelese, Donna Walker, Lisa Vella, and me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUq_GVVZtZU
From Printed Page to Moving Picture – Looking into Book Trailers, Part 2
Part of an ongoing series by Bonnie ZoBell, entitled "Creating and Publishing a Flash Chapbook.This originally appeared in Flash Fiction Chronicles. by Bonnie ZoBell Welcome to Part Two of From Printed Page to Moving Picture – Looking into Book Trailers In the first part of this series, I shared my journey of making a book [...]