A quote on writing that I pulled from today's paper...

Writing is an obsessive-compulsive disorder. A kind of miracle. Something out of nothing. Out of you. Only you can write it, whether it's good or bad.

T.C. Boyle

From one of the editors of AAM, Tim Gallagher...

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Okay, kids, we got the first issue out of the way. It darn near killed some of us, but we did it.

In the process of putting the magazine together, we learned what worked and what didn’t; what we need help with and what we have down pat; and what changes will have to be made in order to ensure things go smoother the second…

I have seen the future and it is a fine revival of the past, Astonishing Adventures Magazine is finally here. Katherine Tomlinson, Tim Gallagher and John Don Carlucci have…

I've been back from a trip to Long Island and the NYC since Sunday. This trip was disappointing in that I had a bunch of short stories cooking up and all I got done during my vacation, was a couple of paragraphs. As things became busier and hectic, I wound up putting pretty much everything on the backburner.

It's hard to get anything accomplished when so much is going on and there is so much to be done, that it almost makes me not want to take another vacation. Worse, there was very…

What I love about a good used book store is the undiscovered treasure that I always seem to discover. New stores obviously do not have the shelf space or the desire to carry something that is more than two years old and that wasn't a best seller during its time.

My last two forays to Green Apple Books have yielded these finds:…