by Dan | Feb 23, 2022 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Books
Thanks to old friend and colleague Allen Greenberg, who recommended me to his friend Mike Consol, I wound up recording an hour-long interview yesterday for Mike’s Novelist Spotlight podcast. So if, like most Americans, you’re thinking “It’s...
by Dan | Aug 1, 2020 | Black Sheep Manor, Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Uncategorized
There’s something romantic about heirloom tomatoes. People wax poetic about them, write songs about them, pine for them. That’s one of the reasons I emphasized them when we started growing for market: I figured it was just good business to provide a thing...
by Dan | Feb 17, 2020 | Black Sheep Manor, Black Sheep Manor, Blog
So: I’m a progressive, and I tend to support candidates that other people call “communists,” “socialists,” or just “too liberal.” What do they mean by that? Who knows? People believe all sorts of crazy shit. But here’s...
by Dan | Oct 14, 2019 | Black Sheep Manor, Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Books
It’s been almost eight months since I finished the first edit of my new Chene trilogy, and I’m here to bear witness: No matter what anyone tells you about how hard writing is, it’s nothing compared to the months of not-writing that follow the...
by Dan | Oct 7, 2019 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Random Xarking
Again, I’m not going to re-stipulate all the reasons why it’s reasonable to assume that Republicans will never turn on Trump, yada yada. But look at the news this morning. The utterly inexcusable, cowardly and shameful betrayal of our Kurdish allies. The...
by Dan | Oct 7, 2019 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Random Xarking
BTW, here’s the “tell” from Sen. Ron Johnson’s Meet the Press self-immolation yesterday: JOHNSON: “You set this thing up totally biased. I could never really get into the full narrative.” Yes, the “full narrative.” The...