Humbled and honored that my novel A Very Minor Prophet had been chosen as the February selection for The Rumpus book club.

As you can see, the website is undergoing some work.  Hopefully, we’ll have something reasonably finished by Christmas.

I’ll be offering one-on-one mentoring as part of the Oregon Writers’ Colony’s Mentor in the House program August 26-28th.  Amazing space for writing–hoping to crank out some pages myself.

It’s official.  My latest novel A Very Minor Prophet sold to Hawthorne Books.  The publication date is Spring 2012.  Stay tuned for more details.

I have a new essay up at The Nervous Breakdown. Commentary on the effects of Moore’s Law, and my experience as a freelance writer working for Intel.

I have a new flash fiction story up on the literary blog/journal Cheek Teeth.  Published on 1/1/11.  Fortuitous.

Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic reposts my The Nervous Breakdown article On Faith.

My short story, Maybe Kamchatka, He Thought, is part of a wonderful anthology of short stories published by The Farallon Review.  The issue includes work by one of personal heroes, Lewis Buzbee, as well as the talented S. J. Sasken.

The review is available for purchase at many San Francisco and Sacramento-based bookstores, as well as through the United States Postal Service.

I’ve been fretting of late with Basement Writing Workshop because Paypal buttons don’t provide a means to use coupon codes.  I wanted to offer discounts for Writer’s Dojo members, newsletter subscribers, friends, etc., and didn’t have any means for students enrolling in my workshops to receive their discounts during the check-out process.

Shopping carts can be super-pricey, and while the 3% Paypal steals for every transaction is steep, all the pure credit card processors are such a nuisance I didn’t want the headache or the cost of having to integrate.

Anyway… in my hunt to find a way to integrate coupon codes into Paypal, I stumbled upon E-junkie, a super elegant and simple solution that provides a shopping cart pop-up where you can enter coupon codes before going to Paypal.  Right now they’re offering 3 months free, and 50% off their regular rates of $5 a month.

Now $30/year with no set-up costs and 3 months free is shopping cart technology I can afford.

So thrilled about the banners Stephanie Vastakis did for the Basement Writing Workshop website.