Day Oh

Is there an echo in a hole? The Hole Everyone says its the best book to come out in years. I don't know what it came out of. But you should read it.

.

murder to do

Dylan wrote this song, Hard Rain’s Going To Fall. And I met a young actress. And fell for her like a ton of bricks. Pined is the word. I was at the end of a messy relationship. And of course there was the girl in my philosophy class who dressed up every day in black leather and a cape and who looked like Deborah Harry. So I wrote this book, ‘murder‘. Dedicated it to my father. But really it was the actress. She would later appear in a movie with Burt Lancaster. And then the book almost won a national book award but I was disqualified. I had just turned 30. It was a young author’s award. I didn’t get the actress. Or Deborah Harry. And my other relationship did end. But without malice. That’s what ‘murder’ will do to you.

Calendar Girls

Every gas station had one. There was one in the barbershop. Beside the Maple Leaf Calendar. And at the plant. Over one of the big presses. Now is your chance to have your own Calendar Girls Not what you expected.

Of course there were other circumstances

Making Movies. The most underrated book of its time. Roger Ebert said it was 6 thumbs up and a half dozen of the other. Wonderful stuff, said my friend, Victor Genova. And if you don't believe Victor, who would you believe?

Sleeping Beauty

Read it now: Sleeping Beauty 
Winner of the 2004 Independent Publisher Award for Best Horror and winner of the 2004 Electronic Publishers Award for Best Horror. 
It is the landscape of Eliot and Pound. Uppers and blue pills. Snow drifts and psychiatric hospitals. Streetcars and shock treatments. A delusional young woman boards an airplane hoping to escape the horrors of this world. Some time during the flight she steps off the airplane into another world. In a quaint village where she takes up residence. And then begins her search for the only person who has meant anything to her. Her grandfather. But she soon finds that this village is damned. There is no escape. But one. You must be murdered.

Woman leaps...

I have been experimenting with a few ideas. This was one. I imagined someone jumping off a building and landing in a different time zone. I don't know if she survived the fall.