The City of Legends

I promised I'd post this weekend, and here I am.

I was in the midst of a writing frenzy, being careful to keep it below the Planck temperature, to avoid the instantaneous destruction of all reality, which would be uncool.  But I have some plans of what to do with the next Creation.

Yes, I have been writing...so much.  And working.  And playing CEO for Venetian Spider Press, and setting up to tour.  There have been deaths and near deaths of those I know and love.  A great wall of depression strikes me from time to time.  I fight through it.  Shortcuts are for cowards.  You stand until every bone cracks, then you fight with your words and will.  I have no lover to take comfort with, which is a shame, but I seem to of recent times taken to being enamored with women who are unavailable for one reason or another.

Life is a scatterfield of wasteful and useless diversions.  I know, I indulge.  But still I press on.  I figure when I do die it will be in mid-sentence.  No "rosebud" for me...more like "ro..."...

My third book of my mysterious trilogy at VSP will be out on my birthday this year.  Its title is "tachyon".  Those who know me and know this word will just smile and nod...everyone else will have to learn.  It shall be hardbound, like "Selected Poems and Passion:  1972-2011" and "Quintessence".  With not a single poem in common with either of those.  And the cover design is out of my hands, on purpose.

I reconnected this week with the editor of my first book (PanthEon, Pantera Press 1996), Jan Innes, she had wonderfully nice things to say about "Quintessence".  That made me smile.  I have always valued her judgement.

Being as hands-on as I tend to be I am not trusting to others to organize the tour, which is unfortunate as I don't really have the time to devote enough attention.  But I will have a few more dates in short order, currently we are:

February 15 - Barnes & Noble Bookstore - Morgantown WV
February 18 - the Monongahela Arts Center - Morgantown WV
March 17 - The Bokeh Lounge - Evansville IN
April 12 - The Scone Age Bakery - Dunedin FL
May 14 - The Guild - Evansville IN

other venues under discussion include the White Whale Bookstore in Pittsburgh, the Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor Michigan, the Barnes & Noble in Manassas, VA, and other stops in Delaware, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Texas...and the list goes on.  I figure to wrap the tour with the NBPF in New England around the first of September.