Eric Mayer
Byzantine Blog

Probably the only vaguely interesting thing about me is that with my wife, Mary Reed, I co-author the John the Eunuch mystery series set in sixth century Constantinople. But that doesn't stop me from dwelling here on the boring minutiae of the rest of my life, present and past, along with the occasional word about writing.
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January
01: A Good Start (4 comments)
02: Meow Mix (4 comments)
03: Reconstructing Our Writing Past (10 comments)
07: Ideas vs Words (7 comments)
10: How Annoying (5 comments)
15: The Wall (8 comments)
16: Writing Necessities (6 comments)
17: Ain't It The Truth (2 comments)
17: Dim Bulbs (8 comments)
19: Out of Time (8 comments)
23: Habits Meme (5 comments)
26: Doing It Right (9 comments)
27: Rubbish Day (5 comments)
28: Collaborators (3 comments)
29: Press to Publish (6 comments)

February
01: Shellac Memories (5 comments)
02: Groundhog Day Again (6 comments)
03: More Math in Schools (4 comments)
04: Healing (3 comments)
05: A Half-Baked Memory (5 comments)
06: Not Scooter Again (3 comments)
12: Return of the Binge Blogger (8 comments)
15: Divinations and Revisions (2 comments)
16: Vicarious Carnivore (5 comments)
17: Windy Day (5 comments)
18: Truth or Words? (3 comments)
19: Sunday Morning Bagels (4 comments)
19: Sunday Supplement (2 comments)
21: Seven Things Meme (7 comments)
23: Kissing Our Mass Market Goodbye (8 comments)
24: Here Today Gone Tomorrow (6 comments)
25: Publishing Pratfalls Part Three (4 comments)
26: Remembering Christmas in February (1 comments)

March
08: Why I Write Mysteries (6 comments)
10: Now Scheduling (6 comments)
13: Naming Nature (5 comments)
15: Win A Free Book (2 comments)
16: Tell Don't Show (3 comments)
16: A Zine Is Born (5 comments)
18: A Day for Research (7 comments)
20: Journal Entry (9 comments)
21: How Fast Do You Write? (11 comments)
26: Change of Season (4 comments)
27: Some Advice For Writers (3 comments)
28: Outlining Outlining (6 comments)
29: What Good Is An Outline? (1 comments)
30: A Walk to the Graveyard (10 comments)

April
01: Keeping Perspective on Writing (7 comments)
02: Free Books (3 comments)
04: Twelfth Anniversary (7 comments)
09: Three Cats (5 comments)
10: Serious Business (5 comments)
12: Uncomfortable Crossovers (2 comments)
13: Playing Chicken With My Memory (6 comments)
14: Marquee of mystery (2 comments)
14: Dorj Steppes Back Into the Sight (3 comments)
14: Twin Horrors: Wallpaper and Photographs (4 comments)
22: Dirt! (6 comments)
23: Random Things Late At Night (12 comments)
24: Real Art (9 comments)
29: A Colorful Home Life (5 comments)

May
02: A ProFile (5 comments)
03: Backups (7 comments)
04: Onward! (7 comments)
05: 52 Picked Up (8 comments)
07: Themes (4 comments)
10: Wake Up Call (8 comments)
12: More Caffeine (4 comments)
12: Ancient Science Fiction (1 comments)
13: You Made the Pants Too Long (4 comments)
15: Why Mystery Authors Blog (5 comments)
17: The Captain At The Switchboard (10 comments)
19: Progress (8 comments)
22: More For Less (7 comments)
23: The New Rap Sheet Blog (0 comments)
23: Out in the Woods (10 comments)
25: The Trouble With Book Tours (7 comments)
27: Putting Ourselves Out of Business (11 comments)
29: Ring-a-ding-ding. God save the king! (4 comments)
31: Electrifying News (10 comments)

June
02: Martian Summer (6 comments)
10: Hamster Noir (8 comments)
13: Pine Away (7 comments)
16: Purple Stains, Purple Prose (3 comments)
20: Ink and Imaginings (2 comments)
22: Hecklers (4 comments)
30: Not Done Yet (3 comments)

July
01: Complaints, Complaints! (7 comments)
02: The Other Eunuch Detectives (2 comments)
03: Just Coincidence? (8 comments)
04: Prologues - Pro and Con (14 comments)
06: The Joys of Summer (5 comments)
10: What Good is Success? (4 comments)
11: The Quest for Publicity (2 comments)
13: Jeepers Creepers (9 comments)
14: New Interview (4 comments)
17: Too Whipped to Write (9 comments)
22: The Need to Read (6 comments)
29: Caffeine and Computers (12 comments)
31: Someone Else's Book (For A Change) (9 comments)

August
02: No Tears (10 comments)
04: Arthur Lee and Me (2 comments)
05: Short Shorts (8 comments)
07: Sieg Meow (6 comments)
11: Baseball in the Air (4 comments)
13: Fear of Flying (5 comments)
14: Earth Attacks! (5 comments)
16: Words and Worlds (4 comments)
16: New Newsletter (2 comments)
19: Writing Can't Be Taught (7 comments)
19: Another Fine Zine (3 comments)
22: Suitable For Children? (6 comments)
24: Astronomers Walk the Dog (7 comments)
26: Three Great Reasons Not to Write (9 comments)
29: Raffles (1 comments)

September
03: The Quest to Improve (7 comments)
05: Go Yanks! (3 comments)
09: Putting on the Brakes (10 comments)

October
02: Where's the Blog? (8 comments)
03: Viewpoint (6 comments)
09: All Greek To Me (4 comments)
11: Getting Ready For Winter (5 comments)
24: Announcements (0 comments)
24: Vegemite and Me (6 comments)
26: Time and History (4 comments)

November
09: The Mailman (7 comments)
12: Frogs in Autumn (4 comments)
13: Six Weird Things (5 comments)
14: Character as Setting (6 comments)
18: Homes for the Holidays (2 comments)
20: First Snow (5 comments)
22: How to Get Published (1 comments)
22: Where Were You? (4 comments)
24: Thanksgiving and Writing (2 comments)
27: Writing Thoughts While on the Roof (9 comments)
28: Of Indies, Amateurs and Vanity Presses (19 comments)
30: More Fool Me (8 comments)

December
01: An Advent Calendar (7 comments)
02: Who Am I? (6 comments)
03: I've Got An Idea (7 comments)
04: Red Squirrel (5 comments)
05: Winter Rushes In (12 comments)
06: Beware of Falling Felines (1 comments)
07: All Written Out (12 comments)
08: First Sentence of the Month (5 comments)
09: Who Needs Spelling and Punctuation? (11 comments)
10: Rhubarb Reminiscences (8 comments)
11: Writing in the Face of Mortality (11 comments)
12: Compromise (5 comments)
13: My Holiday Rant (4 comments)
14: Oh Possums! (3 comments)
15: Christmas Trees I've Known (5 comments)
16: Pillars of the Community (2 comments)
17: Summer in December (5 comments)
18: 52 Picked Up (11 comments)
19: Old-time Religion (5 comments)
20: Old-time Christmas (7 comments)
21: A Zine for the Holidays (9 comments)
22: It's Not Nice to Grab (7 comments)
23: Words I Remember (7 comments)
24: Blue Light Special (6 comments)
25: Merry Mithras (4 comments)
26: Writing in the Holidays (5 comments)
27: Signings (4 comments)
28: The Sort of Book I Like (6 comments)
29: Writing to a Different Drummer (8 comments)
30: Last Christmas Tree Standing (8 comments)
31: Horrors of Snail Mail (11 comments)


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