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Tagged With: Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure

Inside ‘Quantum Physics,’ Part 9

Posted on August 29, 2011 by admin

We continue today with the story behind the story on the ninth and penultimate piece of short fiction from my upcoming collection, Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. To read previous installments, go here. SAD TOMATO: A LOVE STORY Backstory: This entry will be very brief. Very brief. This is a continuation of an earlier … Continue reading »

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Inside ‘Quantum Physics,’ Part 8

Posted on August 25, 2011 by admin

We continue today with the story behind the story on the eighth piece of short fiction from my upcoming collection, Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. To read previous installments, go here. SHE’S GONE Backstory: Long after I wrote about Ross Newbry as an adult, I came back to him, this time as an adolescent. … Continue reading »

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Inside ‘Quantum Physics,’ Part 7

Posted on August 24, 2011 by admin

We continue today with the story behind the story on the seventh piece of short fiction from my upcoming collection, Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. To read previous installments, go here. STAR OF THE NORTH Backstory: This story, about a prison inmate waiting out a life sentence for a murder he’s never denied, was … Continue reading »

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Inside ‘Quantum Physics,’ Part 6

Posted on August 23, 2011 by admin

We continue today with the story behind the story on the sixth piece of short fiction from my upcoming collection, Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. To read previous installments, go here. THE PAPER WEIGHT Backstory: Like Alyssa Alights, this was salvaged from a novel that didn’t make it to the finish line. For … Continue reading »

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Inside ‘Quantum Physics,’ Part 5

Posted on August 22, 2011 by admin

We continue today with the story behind the story on the fifth piece of short fiction from my upcoming collection, Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. To read previous installments, go here. QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE ART OF DEPARTURE Backstory: The title story of the collection (obviously). A reader could be excused if, upon digesting … Continue reading »

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Inside ‘Quantum Physics,’ Part 3

Posted on August 17, 2011 by admin

We continue today with the story behind the story on the third piece of short fiction from my upcoming collection, Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. To read previous installments, go here. ALYSSA ALIGHTS Backstory: This is the salvaging of another failed novel project. I’d had this idea for a story involving an ensemble of … Continue reading »

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Inside ‘Quantum Physics,’ Part 1

Posted on August 15, 2011 by admin

Starting today and running Monday through Thursday for the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing details from each of the 10 stories that make up my forthcoming collection of short fiction, Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. I’ll include backstory, excerpts, and other stories behind the stories. We’ll start, appropriately, at the beginning. … Continue reading »

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Publishing: pleasure and pain

Posted on August 11, 2011 by admin

Welcome to Day 4 of Honesty Week. Look, I don’t know how I feel about self-publishing. Back when I first did it, in those yonder days of early 2009, it was in the most rudimentary way possible. I uploaded my book to CreateSpace. I used one of that service’s horrible pre-fab templates for my cover. … Continue reading »

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Blowing stuff up around here

Posted on August 8, 2011 by admin

Remember all those daily coded posts — Once More, With Feeling; Progress Report; Another Page; Grab Bag; The Word? Yeah, all that stuff is history. Not that I won’t post about music, or my progress on a given project, or a book I like, or anything at all, or the weekly short story. Maybe I … Continue reading »

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Grab Bag: My new book

Posted on August 4, 2011 by admin

I’m thrilled to be able to announce that my third book, QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE ART OF DEPARTURE, will be released on December 6th, 2011. The book is a collection of ten short stories — some previously published, some not — that fall under the broad heading of family drama. It’s not a novel-in-short-stories (as … Continue reading »

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