“Champion Of Her Sex” – Nellie Bly interviews Susan B. Anthony
This is a complete transcription of the article “Champion Of Her Sex”, containing Nellie Bly’s interview with Susan B. Anthony, originally printed in The New York World, Feb. 2, 1896. Susan B. Anthony! She was waiting for me. I stood for an instant in the doorway and...
To The Evangelical Trump Supporter
Today I was arguing on Facebook with an Evangelical Christian about his support for Trump. He said his church did great work, and challenged me as to when I last fed the hungry or clothed the poor. I said I do, though not enough. It was why I supported Democrats. He...
“Nellie Bly With The Female Suffragists” – Bly’s Coverage of the Suffrage Convention in 1896
This is a complete transcription of the article “Nellie Bly With The Female Suffragists”, originally printed in The New York World, Jan. 26, 1896. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — I pushed in the swinging door, noticing as I did that it was covered with yellow canton flannel,...
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ARCs, ebay, and a Hint of Cheek
My father is reading the novel right now. Before I go on, let me point out that Al Blixt is not a fiction reader. He'll listen to audiobooks when he's doing something else, but he finds written novels too - linear. He's a guy who likes to flip open a book to a random...
SMP Interview
St. Martin's Press has asked me to answer a few questions, to add to their promotional material. The other interviews I've done are much longer, more in-depth, and will appear on other sites. This was meant to be read at a glance, so I kept my answers short and pithy....
Cover Variations
As a fun "let's compare" moment, here's the cover for THE MASTER OF VERONA in its original incarnation: . . . . . And here it is in its final form: I much prefer the final version. Of course, that may be because the change in color was my idea. Thing is, I...
Drudgery
The last couple weeks have been post free. Sorry about that. It's not that I've been slothful. Aside from some family health issues, it's been fairly dull. I spent last week contacting the major Shakespeare festivals, trying to get some sort of presence for the novel....
July 25th – Ann Arbor Booksigning
My very first booksigning will take place the day after the release, July 25th, at the downtown Borders on Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There are a myriad of reasons that I'm excited about this. I was born and bred in Ann Arbor, and that Borders used to be...
R&J Prologue
I never enjoy productions of Romeo & Juliet that play the Tragedy from the beginning. In fact, I think the famous Prologue is tacked on - it doesn't appear in the First Folio! In the earliest texts we have, the show begins with two guys walking down the street...
R&J Thoughts
For the last nine or ten years, I've been giving a lecture on Romeo & Juliet to students at Howell High School in Michigan. In a couple of days, I'll be doing it again, six hours straight of repeating a fun but exhausting run-through of all the important bits of...
Titles revisited
Everyone is asking about the title to Book 2. I don't have a good answer. I did, then something changed and events that were going to happen in Book 2 were moved to Book 3, which I'm working on right now (when not adapting classic crime fiction for the stage, playing...
That Blasted Idiom
I was contacted by a reviewer this past weekend. She quite liked MV, confessing to pulling an all-nighter to finish it. Which is very cheering, despite my bizarre yet compelling need to apologize for keeping her awake. She also had some questions. A couple were easy -...
Pleasing strangers
The release date is three months away, and already the snowball-effect has begun. I just finished my very first interview about the novel, I'm being contacted out of the blue by some of the advance readers, and the first two major reviews - Kirkus and Publisher's...
