Tag: Summer Rain
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Summer Rain, now on kindle
So I spend all week editing a book that’s set in Indiana University, and my news feeds explode with news about IU basketball. Weird how that works sometimes. Anyway, I’m proud to announce that my first book, Summer Rain, is now available in a new edition on the Kindle, and will soon be available in…
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Summer Rain Redux
I’ve spent the last few days doing something somewhat monotonous and incredibly nostalgic: importing the manuscript for Summer Rain into Scrivener. The import itself wasn’t difficult, except that the original book was written in emacs, which meant every single line ended in a hard return, and all of the quotes were straight quotes. Both of…
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The gaps of summer
I find myself thinking about Summer Rain a lot lately, which is ultimately dangerous, I think. Next year will be 20 years since the Bloomington summer I fictionalized, and ten years since I actually last set foot in the college town. I think about the book because it’s a default way of writing for me,…
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The Run-in
Here’s something I forgot to mention about my Vegas trip last January: my ex from Seattle was there at the same time as me. I did not run into her like I did on my 30th birthday, but I knew she was there because when I was waiting for my luggage, someone kept paging her.…
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Summer Rain re-release
I am happy to announce that I have re-released my first book Summer Rain with a new printer, lulu.com. Summer Rain is a book about a summer in a big college town in 1992. Here’s what the back cover says: John Conner has lost his girlfriend, his job, a scholarship, and has been kicked out…
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Summer Rain useless trivia
I’ve been busy working on something. Check this out, here are some facts and other worthless trivia about my first book, Summer Rain: The book was started on April 1, 1995 The final draft was sent to the publisher on July 3, 2000 The last third of the book was completely rewritten in the second-to-last…
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CVS woes
I should mention that I finished a draft of Summer Rain today. Now it’s time to shake out all of the bugs, and get this piece of shit to the printer. I’m sick – probably shouldn’t be awake but my sleep schedule’s off due to a day of heavy cold medicine and too many naps.…
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final mile
Things are, at best, a blur. I think I’m getting a cold, which is a pisser because I’m in the final mile of editing Summer Rain, and I really want to blow through the last of the writing and get it over with. I’m down to five chapters with sizable holes that need to be…
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Walking dead
I am the walking dead today. I slept about 2 hours right after work, and I slept almost 10 last night. It was pouring rain outside, which meant I was hypnotized into a deep sleep, and I had abnormal dreams all night long. Anyway, I rolled into work today and could barely open my eyes.…
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Finding style
It’s just another day. I spent the weekend staying up all night and sleeping all day. Now I just about totalled myself getting in here, and my eyes are welded shut with sleep. My stomach is churning from no food and too much caffeine. I could use a nap. I could use ten naps. I…