Month: March 2019

Michael Pollan’s Book on Psychedelics is Exciting

March 26, 2019
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Photo by Lucas Benjamin on Unsplash But I see a hidden danger in it. When I first heard of Michael Pollan’s bestselling book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence I was glad. The truth was finally getting out to the public. Rather than being…

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Marketing Your Art is a Special Hell

March 19, 2019
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  But only if you think it is. Like many of my stories, this one has a front end (the present) and a back (the past.) I’ll start with the past. 1980 I was living in a fifth floor walkup in the scary northern tip of Manhattan, trying to get someone—anyone!— to pay me to…

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Grand Opening of the Murderous Arts Gallery!

March 12, 2019
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Featuring Pieces that inspired Never Speak, book one in the Murderous Arts Series.   I. RAY’S HOUSE The protagonist of Never Speak is Ray Watts, a visual artist who lives above his gallery in Hudson, NY. Ray has gothic taste. His patron saint is Edgar Allen Poe, with whom he shares a weakness for absinthe….

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The One Indispensable Word of Advice for Writers

March 5, 2019
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Persist. Four years ago, I’d completed two novels in a mystery/thriller series. There was a lot of media buzz about self-publishing, and I was on the fence as to whether to go that way or hold out for a traditional deal. Over the months that I hemmed and hawed over my dilemma, I sensed that…

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