I’ve been in negotiations for over four months with a publisher on a book. After the last book deal fell through with negative reprecussions for me, I’ve been more wary when it comes to contracts. One issue with the new publisher has been about a clause in the contract that the publisher could bill me […]
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Last Firefly
The weather has been unseasonably cool and dry this week, which has helped to keep the bug life down; every last biting, stinging, sucking, buzzing, feeding, crawling, creeping, icking, disease carrying bit of it. However, last night while out walking I was surprised to spot what must be this year’s last firefly hovering in the […]
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Summer break
In addition to our political views, Mark Morford from the Chronicle and I have something else in common this morning: we’re both suffering from injured wrists. More than that, we’re both taking a break from our writing: Morford because of his wrist; me because damn, but I’m tired. My writing has been uninspired, my camera busted, and […]
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From eyes, the deleted
Originally deleted from an earlier post: If only we could see each other’s eyes A couple of days ago while traveling to my favorite walking path, I came to an intersection full of cops and firetrucks. I knew there was an accident, but didn’t know how bad until I moved around the police car blocking […]
Michael Blowhard at 2Blowhards provides a detailed discussion about why you wouldn’t want to write a book. Among the reasons given, such as only a few hundred people make a living at it, he says that writing a book just isn’t fun: Many people imagine that they’d “fullfill themselves” (whatever that means) if they wrote a book; […]