There are three ways this book might get published. First, a big publisher might take it. For this to happen, it would have to be represented by an agent. Big publishing houses deal only with agents, not with authors. Second, a small publishing house might pick it up. This would not require an agent; I […]
Archive | June, 2015
Those Historic Gay Marriages
I’ve told Martha, “I’ll marry you as many times as it takes.” I guess we’re done getting married now. Here’s a story I wrote about those historic gay marriages in San Francisco in 2004. A version of it was published in Bad Subjects that year. I heard about the San Francisco same-sex marriages on a Thursday afternoon in […]
Father’s Day and a Bike Light
My father wasn’t a good dad; nobody would argue with that. However, a sharp blow to his head in old age improved our relationship. Here I am, after all, posting a photo of him on Father’s Day. The memory I wrote about below is one I later incorporated into the fictional characters’ lives in Like Light from Stars: […]
Get the Book Published
O my friends, as some of you know, I have written a book, Like Light from Stars. “Obsessive love, a nightmare journey, musical genius, a chain of abandonment…” The book follows seven generations of the same family in San Francisco, from 1849 to the present. I am prouder of this book than almost anything I’ve […]