Happy December
HAPPY DECEMBER Oh dear, oh dear, you’re going to be getting a newsletter very soon after the last one because I am leaving on the 15th for Greece. We’re going to Corfu to take care of a puppy, and since…
Category writing
First New Post on this site
Hi all. Happy 2025! The year started well for me with a non-fiction publication acceptance from SolarPunk Magazine. It’s an article on how to create Monarch Butterfly byways through cities. I have done it and it’s easy and cheap. Sadly,…
In Which The ALBINO PINEAPPLES sell some poems –
My father, who was a writer started a writer’s group that counted, among others, Ray Bradbury in its members. So, having gotten a taste for that sort of gathering, I thought I would try to start my own. It is…
Books, Audio and more, OH MY!
I am very pleased to announce the audio productions of both Pandora‘s Card Game
And The The Truth of Fiction are in progress. Feb. release!
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…
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…
My life and Welcome to It
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…
Improvisational writing!
Improvisational Writing This is what I’m Teaching at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference Should be a BLAST!!! Got Writer’s Block??? Get out from behind the laptop and Unleash Your Creative Writing Power through Using classic Theater Games Elizabeth Eve King…
Tales from San Miguel and Other Stories
I’m teaching a story telling workshop with wonderful Mariana Williams, Producer of ‘Long Beach Searches for Greatest Storyteller’, a citywide event now in its third season. She’s also the author of two novels. and a damn funny lady…. Her tales…