10.12.20 How Two Spam Emails Cost Me $650 (or) When PicRights Enters Your Life
I just bought something for $650! Three photos, as it turns out. Three digital photos. And I nearly lost out on the opportunity to do so, because the letters about those photos showed up in my spam folder first, and it was only by chance I happened to check and discover that … well, crap.…
Read More4.7.20 Christopher Meloni talks ‘Law & Order: SVU’, Part 3: Emmy competition, unstable Stabler
Big news for Law & Order: SVU fans: Det. Elliot Stabler is coming back! OK, not to SVU, but to his own series! Back in 2008 I was writing The Law & Order: SVU Unofficial Companion with Susan Green, and spending a lot of time at the studios watching how the sausage got made. The…
Read More4.4.20 Christopher Meloni talks ‘Law & Order: SVU’, Part 2: Stabler loves Benson
The big news for Law & Order: SVU fans hit on the last day of March: Det. Elliot Stabler was coming back! OK, not to SVU, but to his own series! Back in 2008 I spent a lot of my free time hopping over to The Law & Order: SVU studios to co-write The Law…
Read More4.2.20 Christopher Meloni talks ‘Law & Order: SVU’, Part 1: Auditions and 22-hour workdays
The big news for Law & Order: SVU fans hit on the last day of March: Det. Elliot Stabler is coming back! OK, not to SVU, but to his own series! It’s been a long, dry spell for Stabler fans. Christopher Meloni originated the role of Stabler in 1999, when SVU became the first spin-off…
Read More3.30.20 Stories for Shut-Ins: Author Reading Series from “Across the Universe”
Greetings, fellow Quarantiners! We’re all spending a lot of time indoors these days, among familiar faces, familiar books, familiar TV shows … well, you know how it goes. So allow us to take you on a journey with a whole new set of friends … Across the Universe! Over the past few weeks, we have…
Read More3.6.20 Elizabeth Warren’s ship was airtight. It sank anyway. Ladies, it’s time to embrace bullshit.
Welcome to Day 1 of Elizabeth Warren Not Becoming President. After running what most have considered an exemplar of a campaign – full of smarts and policy ideas and brio and humor and virtually no stumbles (plus a dog who steals burritos) – Warren proved to voters and women many, many things about what it…
Read MoreRooftop Readings at Ample Hills Creamery
Please note: This page is no longer being updated, as of 8/24/21. Go HERE and bookmark that page for future reference/updates. A brand-new reading series is underway! Starting in 2021, the Ample Hills Creamery opened its upstairs to a special Rooftop Reading series curated by Randee Dawn, featuring a variety of emerging and established writers…
Read More1.21.20 Legislators are coming for your freelance jobs. Time to take action.
If you are a freelancer. If you do piece work. If you in any way have multiple outlets that pay you for the work you do. Time to sit up, and pay attention. State governments, some with good intentions and some without, are coming for your jobs. And that includes mine. Of all the things…
Read More12.31.19 2020: The Year of Not Buying Stuff, in 4 easy steps
There are a lot of things that can be said about 2019. And for me, personally, in my day-to-day life — I can’t really say it was a terrible year. It’s a terrible year for the world and society at large, and my heart breaks daily while trying to cope with all the little fires…
Read More11.01.2019 31 Ways to Say ‘I Scare You’: The Collected 100-Word Drabbles of October
A hundred words is not very much. Especially if you want to tell a whole story. But a fantasy publication put out a call, looking for 100-word drabbles with a Halloween/scary theme, and I gave it a shot. The five I spat out fairly quickly were all rejected. And yet … I was not deterred.…
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