Yesterday morning, much too early, I headed downtown to the Capital Rep Theatre, host of that morning’s Social Media Breakfast for the Tech Valley region. The lovely picture is from the CapRep stage: they’re currently deep into Shear Madness. Great set, eh? The featured speaker was Justin R. Levy, a PR/social media maven, who live-tweeted…
Category: blogging
Housekeeping
I moved the serial blog, The Mangrove Legacy, to the “new” Blogger format, which is actually no longer new, in the hopes that it would make it easier to add things like “tweet this!” links and so forth. Hasn’t worked out that way, so I’m hesitant shift this blog over because of course there will…
Guest Blogging at Sia McKye’s Thoughts over Coffee
Join me over at Sia McKye’s Thoughts…Over Coffee where I’m blogging about the difficulty of introducing my weirdly-titled short story collection, Unikirja, as well as Finnish folklore and mythology. Sia is a terrific blogger who hosts all kinds of writers and writing tips, so you would do well to bookmark her. I’ll be checking in…
Wrapping Things Up
Well, that’s the theory anyway. I tried to get important things done today — when not running off to see Robert’s new cottage and have lunch at Mexican Radio. I had papers and posts to grade, email to which to respond, reviews and short essays to write, blog posts to keep up with (eep —…
Branding Myself: Finnish
I’m trying to think about several angles for the “branding” idea, which I must admit still makes me a tad uncomfortable. I revile the forces of capitalist consumption in its may destructive forms, so I rebel at the idea of turning myself or my book into a product. However, I am well aware of the…
BitchBuzz: 21st C Women’s Studies
Check out my latest piece for BitchBuzz where I try to focus on the duties I’ll be taking on as coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at my college. It’s going to be a challenge to revitalise the program as we had an off-year last year for a variety of reasons. My thought…
Neglectful
Yes, blame me, mea culpa, etc. I have been overly neglectful of the blog this past week, but I think after nearly five years I’ve earned a little slack cutting. I hope! I promise to do better this week as I countdown the hours to spring break (begins when I finish teaching Mar 4) and…
Effortless
In slow increments of about 500 words at a time, my serial novel The Mangrove Legacy, has passed over the 70,000 word threshold. My, my. Break a task into tiny steps and it gets done (eventually, but fairly effortlessly).
Trubba Not
In a tweet last night I used the word “trufax” and was pleasantly surprised to get a response of “trubba not” from a fellow tweeter, someone I know only from the internet, but who has proved to have a wealth of overlapping interests with me, including studying hagiography in grad school. When you find someone…
Live Blogging MLA
Because I always need one more thing to do: I’m going to be live blogging MLA, the Modern Language Association conference. Many of you know that this is the biggest conference in the language and literature fields. It’s not only the place for papers deemed to be cutting edge, it’s also the place where the…