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...
by Dan | Dec 13, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
We noticed Love Actually on basic cable last night and it inspired us to call up the non-TV edit on Netflix and watch it all the way through. I’d enjoyed the movie the only other time I’d watched it, but watching it this time felt like attending a master...
by Dan | Dec 8, 2013 | Blog, Books, Featured, Random Xarking
In 1999, not long after Janet and I got married and we moved our blended family into the top two floors of a rented 1850s Charleston single, I was browsing in the main library around the corner and picked up a newly published book called Flanders. I had some...
