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#thiswritinglife
These days AI is the elephant in every writer’s room. On June 27th, Jacqueline Winspear (author most famously of the Maisie Dobbs series) weighed in on the topic on her Facebook page. She gave me permission to repost it in full here, which I do because if AI isn’t part of #thiswritinglife these days nothing…
#inmygarden
Told from the viewpoint of JC’s best friend, Biff.
First time Jesus Christ ever died that I felt like I’d lost a friend. Told from the first-person viewpoint of his best friend Biff, who first sees Jesus/Joshua when he’s resurrecting his little brother’s lizard every time his little brother smashes said lizard to death with a rock. And then there is the scene where…
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Lagniappe Sunday
Looove these Tiny Angry Witch videos. (The Tiny Angry Witch) Circa 1920, so a tad out of date. It’s missing the “Some Hemsworths” area, just for starters. (h/t Brilliant Maps) ICYMI, Saul’s got your back. Mike, too. Gulp. (h/t Laughing Squid) No one better than Sarah Paine for telling it like it really is. I…
The Roadhouse Report – June 2026
THG links The Poisoned Pen publication day launch, starring the Danamaniacs! An audio excerpt of THG, starring Marguerite Gavin! The Harvey Girl ARC letter The Harvey Girl Case File video The Avon Free Public Library video The Fresh Fiction Q&A The THG Acknowledgements page Dana Stabenow Made Me a Danamaniac (My Bookcase Slays…
Let’s get this Friday started!
And the live version…
#inmygarden
I was weeding yesterday and the worst news is the death of six of the seven geranium magnificums and two of the four red rocket barberrys, among other losses. But the good news is that much of the garden survived the record low temperatures with no insulating snowpack of this horrible winter and interminably windy,…
#thiswritinglife
Because what the gatekeepers are recommending people read is also part of #thiswritinglife… Yesterday NPR ran a piece on recommended nonfiction reads for the summer. The list included A bio of Gisèle Pelicot, the woman in France whose husband drugged her and then let all his friends rape her a book on critical race theory…
“You know Iʼm still kind of sorry about the sewage,” said Perry. “I hadnʼt really thought it through.”
McKibben calls this a fable, but I donʼt know. What if people like Vern in states like Vermont all over the nation became accidental, nonviolent secessionists? What if they inspired their states’ equivalents of town halls to talk about and even vote on leaving the nation to be their own independent countries? If enough of…
