Category: reflection
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Building a Third Place
Persnickety Books in Burlington, N.C., recently sent out a newsletter that mentioned a new book by a North Carolina author focusing on finding your third place. I am fascinated by the idea of third place, and my dream is to build Parisian Phoenix into a physical location with a bookstore,…
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A chat with the National Center on Disability & Journalism
I had a meeting with a writer earlier this week, and she mentioned that meeting me in the setting where we connected seemed like a message from the universe. She had just finished the YA fantasy book that she had been working on for four years. And I have similar…
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Death of the American Mall?
Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to spend the day at the Mall Rats Punk Vendor Festival at the Palmer Park Mall, celebrating the 1990s, and hosted by Blue Flame Events. My Echo City Capers duo, illustrator Joseph Swarctz and his sidekick author Ralph Greco Jr., were signing books down at the Barnes & Noble at the Promenade Shops in Center…
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Lessons from a sex conference: Confidence and empowerment
As the days pass here in Atlanta, I am genuinely sad that I cannot stay for the entire Sex Down South: Atlanta conference. I have to leave early tomorrow to make my long drive home in order to make commitments on Monday. Sigh. Sex Down South (in general) I will…
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The journey… home, to healing… to happiness?
As a small business owner, no day ever goes completely as planned. Yesterday I thought– because I ended up doing a lot of editing on a client’s novel over the weekend and then yesterday I prepped E. H. Jacobs’ novel Splintered River for the design phase of production– that maybe…
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A poetic challenge: 31 chapbooks in 31 days
Guest Blog by Magnus Mateo This year, I’ll be participating in the Sealey Challenge for the first time. In case you’ve never heard of this challenge, it encourages people to read a poetry book of any length for each day of August. 31 days, 31 books. Seems easy enough, right?…
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Seven
Joe R. Frinzi is an independent author, movie lover and critic, and the partner-in-crime for Kafka the Kat, who writes his own pithy memoirs. By guest author Joe R. Frinzi As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has been associated with…
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