by Dan | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
The excerpt from Donna Brazile’s new book published in Politico this morning isn’t getting big headlines on the major news sites yet. Yet. But Brazile’s account of what she found when she replaced Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the head of the...
by Dan | Sep 9, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
I built my first blog in 2003. Called it Mysterious Erotic Technical Manual (which is now the name of my Tumblr). That was back when I was scared to death that revealing my personal thoughts in public would get me fired from my job as a newspaper editor. I was a bit...
by Dan | Feb 2, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
One of my first newspaper bosses was a wonderful, jovial mess of a man who endured the frazzled annoyances of running a small-town news staff because it allowed him the luxury of composing editorials. Which happened to be things of joy and beauty, by the way. He...
by Dan | Jan 3, 2014 | Blog, Books, Featured
Since I know some of you out there are thinking about publishing your own books and stories via ebook distribution, I thought it might be worthwhile for me to recap the lessons I’m learning as I go along. Just so you’ll have another data-point to use in...
by Dan | Dec 20, 2013 | Blog, Books, Featured
From my Darbas Cycle blog, a sequel to the Mullaqat creation myth… HOW COYOTE GAVE THE MULLAQAT THEIR CLEVERNESS A Mullaqat creation myth… One night after their return to the new world, the Mullaqat looked at Grandmother Hen and said, “Tell us...
by Dan | Dec 17, 2013 | Blog, Books, Featured
The enigmatic nomadic culture of Darbas, called the Mullaqat (literally, “the drifting people”), plays a huge role in the story I set out to tell in The Key to Darbas series (five books, beginning with A Madness and Siobeth). But it’s the curse of...
