by DCMcElroy | Nov 28, 2022 | General
So anyway, the best way for me to put 2022 in my personal context is this: I’d planned to publish two novels this year, but only got halfway there. Ta Nupa came out in April, and I’d hoped to have City of the Dead on sale before Solstice. That ain’t...
by DCMcElroy | Nov 6, 2022 | General
Things around The Manor have been so herky-jerky-disjointed in recent months that I’ve just skipped the last two windows for the email newsletter. It’s not that I’m quitting the newsletter. It’s that “news” is the premise of a...
by DCMcElroy | Aug 29, 2022 | General
The 2004 movie “Troy” is currently on Netflix, and I started re-watching it three or four nights ago, just a bit at a time. I remembered enjoying it when it came out, but my impressions of movies often change. How would it hold up? Remarkably well. But...
by DCMcElroy | Aug 12, 2022 | General
Avoid attachment. Accept suffering. Release worry. Experience perfection. Choose simplicity. Observe with curiosity. Mind your own business. Learn from nature. Be kind. ...
by DCMcElroy | Aug 12, 2022 | General
(From my Aug. 7th newsletter. To subscribe, click here. dc) Not my usual newsletter Today is Lughnasadh (on my calendar, at least), and time for another newsletter. But since there’s no interesting news on the publishing and promotion fronts here at The Manor,...
by DCMcElroy | Jul 29, 2022 | Darbas, General
“Last night I dreamed I was living on a farm — and by that, I mean a farm like what you might have seen in 1930s Kansas, as imagined in the movie The Wizard of Oz — and I had to go in to town for supplies, because I had run out of Purina Writer Chow....
