Cyberflanerie: Definitely Different Edition

The Octopus MandalaToy Mammals and Dinosaurs Burdened with Miniature CivilizationsHow the Sun Sees YouGeorge Lombardi's Mission to India (well worth the listen)Ye Olde Roots of the Federal Marijuana BanThe Art Car MuseumBig Foot or Another Guy in a Ghillie Suit? (The...

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Cyberflanerie: STUFF & Stuff & More Stuff Edition

Seth Godin on the Nitty-Gritty Boring Stuff (of being an artist-- or whatever).For those who don't have much stuff (or happen to have some spare $$$ for a writing studio): the Molecule Tiny House.Mike Clelland on how to pack only micro amounts of stuff and hike off...

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Dave Bricker's The World's Greatest Book Blog

Thanks, Dave Bricker, for taking the time to answer my question about Ingram vs Baker & Taylor at the Independent Book Publishers Association's www.openlearning.com Ask the Experts course. So this is how I found out about your blog, The World's Greatest Book. Readers,...

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Cyberflanerie: Low-Techerie

Ingenious little contraption: Heatstick.dom's Candle HeaterLow-Tech Magazine on Tile Stoves: "Sunbathing in the Living Room"Low-Tech Magazine: How to Downsize a Transportation Network: Chinese WheelbarrowsNever let a sunny day go to waste! The daily solar cooking recipeIntroduction...

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Gabriele Lusser Rico (1937-2013)

I was so sad to learn, belatedly, of the death of writer and visionary writing teacher Gabriele Lusser Rico. I never met her, but I felt as if I had, because I read and reread her book, Writing the Natural Way, until it was, literally, falling to pieces.>Visit Gabriele...

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Rose Mary Salum's Visionary Anthology DELTA DE LAS ARENAS: Cuentos Arabes, Cuentos Judíos

DELTA DE LAS ARENASCuentos Árabes, Cuentos JudíosEditora, Rose Mary SalumLiteral PublishingHouston, 2014One of the opening epigraphs of Delta de arenas (Delta of the Sands), this visionary anthology of Arab and Jewish Latin American stories, is by one of my favorite writers,...

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Cyberflanerie: Writers and Writing: Sam Quinones on the Mennonite Mob, the Daily Skimm, Write On!

Debra Eckerling's Write On! August newsletter is out. (Thanks, amiga, for the mention of my "30 Deadly-Effectve Ways to Free Up Bits, Drips & Gimungously Vast Swaths of Time for Writing" and the new gumroad.com edition of From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of...

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The Extinction of the Vaquita?

In the San Diego Tribune, Sandra Dibble has just published an important article on the immanent extinction of the vaquita, the world's smallest porpoise, unique to Mexico's Sea of Cortez. Read it in full and watch the video here.I've written about the catastrophe-- that really is the word-- in the Sea of Cortez in my book on Baja California, Miraculous...

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Traditional + Indie = Hybrid Publishing: Three Authors Dish at Jane Friedman's Blog

I'm not the only one (my previous publishers include University of Georgia Press, University of Utah Press,  Milkweed Editions, Whereabouts Press, Unbridled Books, and in Spanish, Planeta and Random House-Mondadori) now going indie. Maybe that long list of publishers sounds...

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Friedrich Liechenstein (Again): Happy

Better than 3 cups of coffee. But the ending is profoundly absurd. I think. Anyway it wasn't Brad Pitt in a chicken suit.SURF ON:>Watch more of Herr Liechtenstein (nobody pours cereal into the bathtub with more elan…)>Cyberflanerie: Prozac Not Needed Edition>Cyberflanerie: This 'N That Cat EditionCOMMENTS are always welco...

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Ciclo Arte, Historia y Pensamiento Jesuita at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City

Alert to all with interest in Mexican history: an excellent line-up for the conference on Jesuit Art, History and Thought at Mexico City's Iberoamericana University. To attend in person, contact arte.uia@ibero.mx; emilio.quesada@ibero.mx. You can also watch this conference live...

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Cyberflanerie: Fun in Mexico, Literary Edition

News from Oaxaca, Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende, and Tepoztlan. U.S. Poets in Mexico is holding what looks like an outstanding and very intriguing conference in Oaxaca this fall. Founded by poet Sheila Lanham in 2008, they are all about connecting U.S. and Mexican...

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Belén de Sárraga (c. 1872-1950)

The excellent and deeply researched new book by Mexican historian María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Mujeres en el cambio social en el siglo XX mexicano (Women in Social Change in 20th Century Mexico) has one chapter in particular directly relevant to my own book on the Mexican...

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Guest-Blog by Gin Getz on 5 Best Ways to Slow Down

My fellow Women Writing the West member Gin Getz is a writer based out of the wild high mountains of southwestern Colorado. Born Virginia Tone in New Jersey, Gin Getz lives and works at her remote, off-grid guest ranch, far removed from town, telephones and traffic, alongside...

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Red Room Has Gone Dark (Sigh) / Ye Very Olde "My Favorite Bookstore? C.M. Mayo Celebrates a Batch of Bookstores"

Redroom.com was the Author Facebook wannabe for a while there… then it seems they tried to be the self-publisher's Etsy (sort of... I just glanced what they were charging to sell books and I thought, nope). Now it seems they've been bought out by Wattpad. Huh. I never could...

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My Little Gumroad Shop Now Featuring "From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion"

It's been a most eye-crossing, shoulder-clenching, but fab-a-roni experience learning how to make ebooks. So far: a batch of Kindles, a few iBooks, two free PDFs, and now a fully-formatted PDF available on ...drum roll… Gumroad. Oh, I luuuuv Gumroad-- mainly because it...

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