Publishing

Thirteen Coats, A Translation (from Russian)

Thirteen Coats, A Translation Serge Kotlar and I (Yay!, Merrill, Wisconsin) translated Thirteen Coats from Russian to English  as research for the next book in The Long...
Nighttime waterfront with boats and cozy indoor seating area.

Arriving in Rovinj, Croatia, November 2013,

Travel Notes Collage, Rovinj Patrice and I have settled in  Rovinj, Croatia, until at least 15 April 2014.  The first apartment we rented (12th century plague house)...
Book cover of 'The Star of Istanbul' by Robert Olen Butler featuring a woman on a couch.

Book Review, Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul by Robert Olen Butler:

While traveling these last two weeks via Istanbul, Venice and Trieste to Rovinj, Croatia I have been rereading Robert Olen Butler's Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel,  Hot Country  and its follow-on,...
People relaxing by the lakeside with colorful chairs and a dock in the background.

Leaving Madison

We are leaving Madison.  Tonight we board Turkish Airlines flight 6 for Istanbul, Turkey, thence to Venice for a few days and onto Rovinj, Croatia. (more…)
Snow-dusted rocky mountain peaks under a clear blue sky.

Leaving Boulder

Flatirons, Boulder, Colorado Tomorrow, the Rocky Mountains eastern slope and the Boulder, Colorado, Flatirons, disappears.  I am glancing over my task list, which in the nature of task...

2nd Installment: The Wisconsin Stories

Patrice publishes her first story: Burial Burial As was Bereft, our previous short story publication, Burial will be offered free on Amazon.com for the five days (20-24 July 2013)...
Baseball player in a red uniform ready to bat.

Publisher and Writer – Landowner and Serf

  Cardinals Curt Flood 1968 I've spent a great deal of time composing this blog because I am writing a scene, time frame 1961, in which two young men, Rick...
Portrait of a serious man in Renaissance attire and hat.

Reformation and Counter-Reformation–Traditional Publishing and Indie Publishing

Martin Luther by Martin Cranach I am a Germanophile. My Wisconsin farmer-neighbors were first and second generation German immigrants.  I went to high school with the Greutsmacher, Schenk, Meyer, Schmidt,...

Spirit Falls in Russian

Spirit Falls-Ледоход_dual language Book CoverDownload   Sergei has sent me the first chapters of his Russian translation of Spirit Falls (Дух в Водопаде?  Те, кторые говорят по русски, предлогайте еще...
A subway platform with a deceptive advertisement reading 'Hang on... I think it might be a trap.'

This Web Log is about…

The purpose of this website is to make sense of the liars whom I've lived and worked for, among, and against. There are moments when I shake with rage at...