Maritime List 238 being over and done with, I moved onto Maritime List 239. The differences between paper and digital catalogs are obvious, but some of the results of those differences continue to surprise me. For example, in the old days orders from my paper catalogs would dribble in over a period of weeks. I […] More >>
Archives for July 2016
My Breakfast with Mishka
Just finished the first draft of my novel and, although a normal person would be pleased to have accomplished such a thing, any writer knows that this is an occasion for depression, doubt, and tortured self-interrogation. In essence a first draft is no more than a promissory note committing the hapless writer to hundreds, if […] More >>
Captain Joe
One of the things I like best about my job is that I learn something new every day. I know, it’s a trite phrase and a worn out idea, but it happens to be true. There is no end of books, and every book is ripe with secrets. Well, most of them, anyway. I’ll bet […] More >>
Cape Breton, July 12, 2016
This is the sort of thing I’ve got to deal with around here. 47,873 words into the first draft, but who’s counting? More >>
The Suburban Trap
Up in Cape Breton for a couple of weeks working on another book. Three years ago I was displaced from my former digs, a lovely old barn of a studio my artist friend built and then abandoned. When his daughter moved in, I moved out. This was an excellent development for all concerned. The heiress […] More >>