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Ojai Wordfest 2013
III. Daily 3-5pm Writing Workshops – $49 I will be Teaching at Ojai wordfest 3-5 on Sunday April 7 — Writing Short Stories with Sizzle and Soul also doing a reading at the library! at Soul Centered Dome, 311 N.…
So It Goes
This is the fabulous new anthology I’m in published by Perpetual Motion Machine Press They are great! fun and inventive… but the never stop moving!
Remembering Ray
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…
Letter to Ray
Letter To Ray From me E. E. King …
Letter from Ray Bradbury, Dublin, Ireland. October 23, 1953
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…
Remembering Ray, Daddy and the Bird that Got Away
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…
save the bird!
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,…
Ray Remembered
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,…
RE Posted from PMMP
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…
So it Goes Is ready to Preorder
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.…
More Memories of Ray Bradbury
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…
The Love Song of the Mole Cricket
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…
Bosnia and Ray Bradbury
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…
True Tales from San Miguel and Other Stories
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…
Thanks http://exlibrislarsen.com/2013/02/20/galley-proofs-sent-for-so-it-goes/ I stole his BLOG!!!!!
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…..…
Butterflies!
“La guía de Dirk Quigby al más allá”, de E.E. King
“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.
A Very Merry Mushroom Christmas
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…
Happy Ground Hog’s Day
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…
God and the FBI
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…