As part of the publicity related to the publication of the Wise Bread book, I’ve got a guest post up at Get Rich Slowly in which I advocate that you be a bon vivant. A bon vivant is a person who lives well — someone who enjoys the best things in life, especially with regard [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Nonfiction category.
Profiled in the local paper
Christine Des Garennes of the New-Gazette did a profile on me and my writing for Wise Bread. It made the front page! Checks and Balances: Living large on a smaller budget. Although some of his blog posts are practical, such as “how to make sourdough bread and save a buck on every loaf,” Brewer’s “central [...]
Translated into Turkish
It seems that someone translated my Wise Bread post The line between frugal and crazy into Turkish: http://www.tutumluol.com/tutumlu-ile-cimri-arasindaki-ince-cizgi/ I’m kind of chuffed about this–translating a whole article is a lot of work; I’m pleased that there’s someone out there who thought this article was worth the trouble. I hope it’s a good translation–it’s kind of [...]
Tobias S. Buckell’s Sly Mongoose
Sly Mongoose by Tobias S. Buckell So, Toby had a little contest, where he asked for captions for this picture of Pat Rothfuss in cat ears. I’m not normally a contest sort of guy, but the prize this time was a copy of Sly Mongoose. I’m a fan of Toby’s work and had bought Crystal [...]
Personal finance and frugal living
I’ve been writing a lot lately about personal finance and frugal living at Wise Bread.
Story Structure in Short Stories
I wrote an article about story structure that was published in Speculations (now sadly defunct). The article was Story Structure in Short Stories.
Where you won’t get critiques, and how not to use them
While I was at Clarion, I wrote a little essay on Where you won’t get critiques, and how not to use them.
