I am by nature a short story writer, but short collections are difficult to sell. Taking a leaf from Ray’s The Illustrated Man I connect several of my new shorts into a novel, “The Card Game.” Fate, Chance, Destiny and Luck play cards beneath a new October moon. As the…
Letter To Ray From me E. E. King 7/18/2006 Dear Ray, It was so lovely talking…
This ia a letter Ray wrote my Dad when in Ireland writing Moby Dick… He was Disappointed that Fahrenheit 451 didn’t’ “make the splash,” or perhaps set the world afire, like he hoped.. Little did he know! (Note: In 2010 a friend of mine would visit from Sarajevo for the…
I ran into Bill Nolan at a Science Fiction convention and we began talking about Ray and the writers group. Bill said he had been to the group once… doubtless before my time. How many great writers have passed through that house and sat round the coffee table reading…
SEVERAL springs ago some friends and I arose before dawn in Moab, Utah, to witness the sunrise mating dance of the Gunnison sage grouse: a surreal display of nine ornately plumed, chicken-size birds tottering about amid the sagebrush like windup toys, fanning their spiky tails and uttering a magical sound —…
Although I am a science fiction/fantasy writer, my next book will not be fiction. It will be, not a biography of Ray Bradbury, buta remembrance. Ray was a close friend, first of my father’s and then, many, many years later, of mine. I grew up with Ray, never realizing he…
PMMP AUTHORS PRE-ORDERS ESSAYS VONNEGUT WRITE A KILGORE TROUT NOVEL EXCERPT, WIN A FREE BOOK Posted by admin in Contests on Mar 4, 2013 If you are a fan of Kurt Vonnegut, then you already know who Kilgore Trout is. To those without a clue, Kilgore Trout was a character frequently used in Vonnegut’s…
Kurt Vonnegut was a man who pushed his imagination off a cliff and followed it for the whole drop; a man who was able to write the most cynical material, yet make you die of laughter at the same time. We have been enjoying his brilliance for over 50 years…
When Ray was writing the screenplay for Moby Dick he read every other chapter… 1-3-5-7. Because he didn’t want “too much nonsense.” Then after the odd chapter reading he wrote the screenplay and read the entire book to see if he’d “missed anything.” Made the necessary fine tuning, and finished…
Summer in the Catskills, the days long and warm, the air humming with insects. Squirrels dangle from branches, trying to steal seeds out of bird feeders. The steep mountains are carpeted with trees. In 1800, giant hemlocks, 80-100 ft. tall had covered these ridges. But by 1850 most had been…
I worked in a camp for war orphans and refuges after the war (in about 2002) Ray Bradbury, my mentor, was a hero to readers in Bosnia due to Fahrenheit 451 In August 1992., at the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo, longest siege in modern times, historical building of…
Storytelling was wonderful last night. Hosted by me and Mariana Willians Tales had the audience laughing and crying. Stories of teenage orphans and strawberry field not forever, tribulations of travel, lingual miscommunication, armed fathers, memories of mothers, childhood angels, imaginary families, a masked strip tease, a theatrical journey into blackface,…
Thanks I stole his BLOG!!!!! so it goes…. Perpetual Motion Publishing Machine has provided the contributing authors to SO IT GOES: A TRIBUTE TO KURT VONNEGUT with the galley proof for a final edit so… if so it goes well….. the anthology should be available early spring. SO IT GOES:…
Butterflies!
“La guía de Dirk Quigby al más allá”, de E.E. King. via “La guía de Dirk Quigby al más allá”, de E.E. King.
Amanitas are curious mushrooms. They grow in a wide variety of locals, some in humid southern swamps under the shadows of giant ferns. Others flourish up north, rising from cold white snow like iced roses on a wedding cake. They emerge from the soil like white eggs. As they grow,…
Tuesday, the 2nd, is Candlemas day, the day on which, according to the Germans, the Groundhog peeps out of his winter quarters and if he sees his shadow he pops back for another six weeks nap, but if the day be cloudy he remains out, as the weather is to…
Waco is remembered most for the Branch Davidian scandal. The Branch Davidians, if you don’t remember were a bunch of religious crazies. (Religious crazies… the term is repetitive. ) As for the Davidians, David Koresh was their leader. He had changed his name to David so as to be a…
Waco is remembered most for the Branch Davidian scandal. The Branch Davidians, if you don’t remember were a bunch of religious crazies. (Religious crazies… the term is repetitive. .) As for the Davidians, David Koresh was their leader. He had changed his name to David so as to be a Daivid—ian…
Amanitas are curious mushrooms. They grow in a wide variety of locals, some in humid southern swamps under the shadows of giant ferns. Others flourish up north, rising from cold white snow like iced roses on a wedding cake. They emerge from the soil like white eggs. As…
To begin my life at the beginning of my life, I was born. But let’s begin before my birth…. One of my earliest memories is of sitting on the steps into my parents’ living room and listening to the authors in my dad’s writers group read aloud from their latest…