Music
11.16.24 What’s a TikTok pop star to do in NYC? Flowerovlove has the answer, and boy am I old
When I was younger, I went to so many concerts. I was music-obsessed. It was in my dreams, it fueled my storytelling, the lyrics gave me ideas to chew on and beliefs to consider. I felt untethered if I was going someplace and didn’t have my music with me on whatever the portable music device…
Read More10.12.24 When it rains, it pours: On having three books coming out next year
Well, now I’ve gone and done it. I’ve signed two separate contracts for four books (and a reprint) that’ll start coming out in November (the reissue/reprint), April 2025, August 2025 and then (likely) October 2025 and sometime in 2026. This feels surreal. It also feels like the result of a lot of hard work (hard…
Read More12.14.23 It’s Madonna, bitch, and she’s two hours late
And there she was, rising up on stage in all black, bright blonde locks curled, flying her roots proudly and wearing a vertical halo-like crown — also black. And she was singing. An inverse angel, an icon from the last century. Madonna, of course. I grew up on Madonna. I wasn’t her most rabid fan…
Read More12.01.22 How to be your very best mango? Tune in … to this video!
Are you your best mango? Well, Tune in Tomorrow, which has now been out since August, will explain everything about how you (or at least its lead character Starr) can embrace your inner mango! Mangoes are the best of all the fruits, and years ago I came up with a little song to sing as…
Read More1.21.22 Farewell by the dashboard light
Aww, Meat Loaf! Marvin Aday, aka Meat Loaf, the actor and singer who paired for years with Jim Steinman to create operatic pop hits like “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” has died at 74. I can’t say I was his biggest fan either way…
Read More7.16.21 It was 57 years ago today … The Beatles stayed in our hotel room
Did you know you can stay in the same hotel room The Beatles lodged in for a single night, on August 21, 1964? In Seattle, Washington? Now you do. And that’s what we did! The Edgewater Hotel, where this momentous event took place, has made a certain amount of hay out it all. (Not our…
Read More3.08.21 Drawn that way: Four times I got musicians to create self-portraits in my notebook
I don’t think I do that many “fun” posts here, so I’m going to change that at least once. In the 1990s I did a lot of music journalism; it was my “in” to getting bylines. I long ago segued into TV and film articles, but for a brief period I had this idea that…
Read More08.15.19 ‘Across the Universe’ Table of Contents Reveal!
The book is on its way! That is, our alternate “what if” Beatles anthology Across the Universe, which I’m co-editing with Michael Ventrella, has been sent to our fantastic publisher, Fantastic Books. The ETA for publishing is December, and here is our Table of Contents: Introduction by Nancy Holder “Rubber Soul” by Spider Robinson “A…
Read More3.22.19 3 days and counting: An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Gail Z. Martin
In honor of our OMG WE GOT FUNDED AND WE’RE NEARLY ABLE TO ADD IN ANOTHER STORY FROM OUR STRETCH GOALS AND ALSO NOW SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN* excitement for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I am spotlighting one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our…
Read More3.22.19 5 days and counting: An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Lawrence Watt-Evans
In honor of our OMG WE GOT FUNDED NOW LET’S HIT STRETCH GOALS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS ALSO NOW SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN* excitement for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I am spotlighting one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our authors should be committed,…
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