(NOTE: This post is a follow up to my article in salon.com:http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/06/18/father_after_death_open2011) “Teach your children well. Their father’s hell did slowly go by. And feed them on their dreams….” –Graham Nash Frank Sinatra is haunting Mrs. Muse and me. Not our house. We don’t wake to the sound of a ghostly rat pack stumbling around…
Just A Man
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…
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