Monthly Archives: November 2012

• Matter Notes: A lawyer's private notes on a legal matter; considered inviolate and nondisclosable. By metaphor and game, my occasional blog posts on literary matters. In both cases, a form of work product.

• Why We Read Strangers

  But if the writing doesn't matter to the writer solely for its own sake, without hope of external validation, then it doesn't matter.

  If you can’t write for yourself, if you can’t write for those shadows creeping along a silent wall and measuring out your time on this earth in increments of everything else you could be doing, if you can’t write while knowing you are destroying your time on a beautiful madness that nobody will ever validate and many will mock – then please don’t call yourself a writer. Real writing isn’t for sissies. It’s more than putting words on the page. It’s denying everything else to be able to put those words on the page while knowing that the mess of language you’ve created is all you’ll ever get out of it.
  
  -Karen Michalson, “Why We Read Strangers”

• Recent Posts

  • Things Need to Be What They Are
  • The War on the Humanities: Humanists are the Weak Flank
  • The Traditional Defenses of The Humanities are Dead, and Everybody Knows it. A Humble Suggestion in Support of Humanities Education (Part 2)
  • The Traditional Defenses of The Humanities are Dead, and Everybody Knows it (Part 1)
  • There’s a War on Science, Too
  • Recommended Article: Scott Samuelson’s “Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers”
  • Manhattan is Losing its Bookstores, But Not its Sense of Delusion
  • Mainstream Publishing Industry “Products” Are About to Get Even More Awful
  • Yes, of course writers should be paid for their work. Here’s why that’s not going to happen.
  • Risingshadow.net Guest Post
  • Why I Plan to Read a Book about Capitalist Fiction
  • About Leda
  • My last post concerned a crime against the humanities; this one concerns the expected demise of Barnes & Noble
  • A Keen and Crankish Rant on a Crime Most Foul Against the Humanities
  • Is Writing a Dying Profession?
  • The War on the Humanities has Three Fronts (Part 3: Artists Themselves)
  • The War on the Humanities has Three Fronts (Part 2: Higher Education)
  • The War on the Humanities has Three Fronts (Part 1: The Right Wing)
  • Hey, Karen – whatever happened to Point Of Ares?
  • Easter Morning
  • What Was the First English Word?
  • Why We Read Strangers
  • And the winner is . . .
  • The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey; and A Most Pleasant and Diverting Contest
  • The Groundhog’s Epiphany
  • A Spell to Attract Attention
  • Intimations of Immortality (via my dog)
  • Why do writers stop writing?
  • What the moon told me the serpent told Eve when she fell to earth.
  • Don’t read this blog post. Read this: Linds Redding. “A Short Lesson in Perspective.”
  • Only Another Writer Will Get This (and, yes, that is a pun)
  • The Dream of the Rood: This is a joke, right?
  • Do you sport a fake British accent? If so, why?
  • Make Yourself Holy
  • Why I Haven’t Posted in Over Three Months; Writers and Time; and Some Useful Advice
  • Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it is the MFA programs
  • I’m shocked! Shocked! Serious novels lack cultural relevance!
  • Buy books. Refuse to read them. Impress your friends.
  • Something like this really happened.
  • Triad
  • Sic transit gloria mundi.

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• Novels

  
  Finished: The King's Glory, the third book in the Enemy Glory series.

  
  I plan to release it through Arula Books this year.

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  Originally published in hardcover by Tor Books.
  Now published by Arula Books.
  
  Available in paperback from
  Alibris, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and IndieBound
  
  Available as an ebook from
  Amazon (Kindle), Barnes & Noble (Nook), BookBaby, Books-A-Million, Google Play, iBooks, Kobo and Scribd

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  Originally published in hardcover and mass market paperback by Tor Books.
  Now published by Arula Books.
  
  Available in paperback from
  Alibris, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and IndieBound
  
  Available as an ebook from
  Amazon (Kindle), Barnes & Noble (Nook),
  BookBaby, Books-A-Million, Google Play, iBooks, Kobo and Scribd
  

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