Why Superhero Movies Matter
I think I'm a bad party guest. Last night I attended my first post-vaccinated dinner party. It was the birthday of one of my wife's high school friends, so it was mostly people I'd never met. Like you do, conversation seeks common ground, and at one point we start...
“Iron-Nerved Young Women” – Nellie Bly Visits Female Medical Students
Phew! But it was horrible. I mean that it was horrible to see pretty, bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked young women busily engaged in dissecting. I saw some of these young medical students at work the other day picking, picking, picking, and so learning the beginning, the end and the object of the veins, arteries, nerves and muscles, and I haven’t had much liking for my dinner since.
It came about this way. I had been told that a dissecting-room was connected with the Woman’s Medical College, at 128 Second avenue. This naturally gave me a desire to see the creatures, whom men claim faint at the sight of a mouse, engaged in dissecting. Of course I thought it over for some time, and I wondered if the students ever fainted at the sight of the work before them. More than all I wondered if I could view them at their work unmoved.
My Superman Story
A couple nights ago I couldn’t sleep. When this happens, I tend to listen to old-time radio — The Saint, The Shadow, Rocky Jordan, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, etc. This time I turned on my old favorite, The Adventures Of Superman.
Superman has been on my mind a lot lately, mostly because of the renewed debate over Zac Snyder’s Man Of Steel. Listening, I was thinking of how forward-thinking the radio show was, having him fight the KKK in 1946, equating them directly with Nazis. I’m glad that story has gotten a comics adaptation.
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Book Giveaway
Through the AuthorBuzz Dear Reader promotion, I'm giving away copies of THE MASTER OF VERONA to 10 lucky readers. The copies are stamped with a classical wax seal, something I've not done for other signings, so these will be unique. So if you're stopping by this site...
Googling
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Sequel Title Fun – Part III
Happy Thanksgiving. Clearly, I have a great deal to be thankful for - wonderful wife, devilishly clever yet sweet son, a novel in stores, another coming in a year, some good shows done this year. And there's something I can't talk about yet that makes me doubly happy....
Sequel Title Fun – Part Deux
Next on the list is The Falconer's Lure. Keith, my editor at SMP, really liked this suggestion of mine. So much so that he took it to the Fall meeting where they discussed the book coming out in a year's time. The trouble was this: while it looked great on the page,...
Breaking News – Amazon Short Available!
Just in time for Kindle... VARNISHED FACES, an Amazon Short Story by David Blixt. VARNISHED FACES is from a line from The Merchant of Venice. Shylock refers to the celebrations taking place outside his home as the Venetians revel in masks. He warns his daughter...
Sequel Title Fun – Part 1
There have been four front-runners for the title for the sequel to THE MASTER OF VERONA - though none of them are what I call the book privately. To me, MV will always be IL VELTRO, meaning both the greyhound and the bastard. Perfect, but unsaleable. The sequel is...
Making New Friends
The signing at the Book Cellar was a lot of fun. Met a couple of really interesting authors, most notably Geoffrey Edwards, author of FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT. I started reading it last night and it grabbed me, despite being far from my usual time and place - pre-Civil...
Book Clubbing
I've already done chats with a couple of book clubs about THE MASTER OF VERONA, and since there's a major publicity push to clubs in December (thank you, AuthorBuzz!), St. Martin's recently contacted me and asked me to devise some questions for their book-club...
WGA Strike, Unions, and My True Colours
If I haven't been blogging this week, it's because there's some interesting family stuff going on, even as I finished three chapters of Book 3 and started my revisions on Book 2. But in all honesty, all my internet time this week has been spent following the WGA...
The Pyrate King!!
A week later, I'm finally getting around to posting a new Dash photos. I try to limit myself, because Dash is not the raison d'etre for this blog, but sometimes I cannot resist. Here's why: . . . . .
