Dispatches from the City of Angels
I'm a writer and humorist living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my novel LOSING CLEMENTINE out March 6 from William Morrow. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
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Author Blogging - 'Sup With That?
I'm doing a meme. I am. I'm sorry. But seriously? I've knocked out sixteen pages today. I'm having trouble remembering to do anything else, like - you know - pee.
Still, it's a pretty decent meme. It was started for science bloggers, but I think it applies equally well to anyone blogging as part of their profession - like me. So here goes.
1. What is your blog about?
Life in Los Angeles - the real sort as I live it. It's the companion piece to the hypercolor L.A. I write about in my Suzy Q. Paparazzi books, the first of which will be turned in to my agent in May. (Fingers crossed for a good deal.)
2. What will you never write about?
If I'm never going to write about it, why would I write about it now? Flawed question.
3. Have you ever considered leavingscience writing?
Several times a week. Writing books is hard.
4. What would you do instead?
I have no idea. This is what I do better than anything else. It's why I'm still here. I suppose if I had to do something else, I'd start studying for the Foreign Service exam.
5. What do you thinkscience author blogging will be like in 5 years?
More, more, more. Most authors turn out a book a year, but that's changing. Some are now every nine months. Some every six. You don't want readers to forget you. This is a good way to stay connected.
6. What is the most extraordinary thing that happened to you because of blogging?
Extraordinary things are supposed to happen? I suppose anytime anyone voluntarily reads my work, whatever the form, and finds it entertaining, it's pretty extraordinary to me.
7. Did you write a blog post or comment you later regretted?
Nope.
8. When did you first learn aboutscience author blogging?
Six-ish years ago, maybe? S.J. Rozan's blog is the first I remember reading.
9. What do your colleagues at work say about your blogging?
All of my colleagues work in their own offices mostly in their own houses. It's lonely work. I've never had anything but positive comments from other writers, even those that think I'm wasting my time writing stuff and putting it on the internet for free. (They're wrong, by the way. This is valuable stuff. To me, anyway.)
Still, it's a pretty decent meme. It was started for science bloggers, but I think it applies equally well to anyone blogging as part of their profession - like me. So here goes.
1. What is your blog about?
Life in Los Angeles - the real sort as I live it. It's the companion piece to the hypercolor L.A. I write about in my Suzy Q. Paparazzi books, the first of which will be turned in to my agent in May. (Fingers crossed for a good deal.)
2. What will you never write about?
If I'm never going to write about it, why would I write about it now? Flawed question.
3. Have you ever considered leaving
Several times a week. Writing books is hard.
4. What would you do instead?
I have no idea. This is what I do better than anything else. It's why I'm still here. I suppose if I had to do something else, I'd start studying for the Foreign Service exam.
5. What do you think
More, more, more. Most authors turn out a book a year, but that's changing. Some are now every nine months. Some every six. You don't want readers to forget you. This is a good way to stay connected.
6. What is the most extraordinary thing that happened to you because of blogging?
Extraordinary things are supposed to happen? I suppose anytime anyone voluntarily reads my work, whatever the form, and finds it entertaining, it's pretty extraordinary to me.
7. Did you write a blog post or comment you later regretted?
Nope.
8. When did you first learn about
Six-ish years ago, maybe? S.J. Rozan's blog is the first I remember reading.
9. What do your colleagues at work say about your blogging?
All of my colleagues work in their own offices mostly in their own houses. It's lonely work. I've never had anything but positive comments from other writers, even those that think I'm wasting my time writing stuff and putting it on the internet for free. (They're wrong, by the way. This is valuable stuff. To me, anyway.)
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