The NYC Teen Author Festival is back this week and last night Will and I went to our neighborhood Barnes & Noble in Tribeca to check out a panel discussion titled “Inside the Mind of a Teen Boy.” Of course, this was particularly interesting to me since I continue to work on my own YA [...]
Browsing the archives for the Writing category
It’s that time of year again. A new year begins and it’s time to look backwards and forwards.
At the start of 2009, I had these goal categories in mind. How did I do? Let’s see:
Volunteering: I connected with the The Ali Forney Center at the beginning of the year and by mid-year I was through [...]
Will wrote a couple weeks ago that we were in the holiday spirit not only becuase it was fall, but because we were working on holiday themed short stories as well. I’m happy to report that mine got picked up for publication. You can read more about it, if you’d like, over on my writing [...]
It’s the first day of September and it’s a beautiful 70 degrees here in New York. So why did I drag out my Christmas Barbie, bake gingerbread and put A Charlie Brown Christmas in the DVD player? Well, Jeff and I are both working on short stories for an upcoming Xmas anthology and frankly, you [...]
It’s been nearly a year since I submitted “The Adventures of Jake #1″ for the Nerdvana anthology (edited by Fred Towers, from STARbooks, ISBN: 1934187577, list price: $17.95) and about five months since I found out the story was accepted. Yesterday I saw the book cover for the first time as it popped up on [...]
Friday April 13, 2007, was the first Friday Geek Out and over the next 117 weeks I’ve written about 101 movies, songs, shows, people, books, events…things that I am very passionate about. Over the weeks, there have been a few Fridays that I’ve skipped for one reason or another.
Geek Out is going to go on [...]
After seeing all those inspiring Lammy nominees last night, I did the anti-award thing and got some (not totally unexpected) rejection today. I got my official “you weren’t selected” letter from the The Twenty-Sixth Annual Delacorte Press Contest for a First Young Adult Novel. From what the letter says, Neutral Zone was one of more [...]
I did one last email check, as usual, right before bed last night and there was some good news! The story I submitted back in November for the Nerdvana anthology was accepted. “Adventures of Jake #1″ will be included when the anthology from STARBooks Press hits the stores in the fall. This is the first [...]
Jeff and Will’s NO8H Campaign Photo
Flag of Equal Marriage
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