A few links of note: Waiting for the trade, self-publishing, DMZ and more
• Kelly Sue DeConnick responds to a question about "waiting for the trade." (Robot 6) • The 25 Most Awesomely Melodramatic Archie Comics covers. (Topless Robot) • Self-publishing is for amateurs? Or not. Passive Voice shows both sides of a recent debate between...
Movies: Tiny Furniture
I should preface this post by saying I haven't seen an episode of HBO's Girls. I want to, but we gave up on cable a few months ago. Anyway, haven't seen it. So, I went into Tiny Furniture with no real expectations beyond the tidal wave of press and reviews Girls got...
A few links of note: Sweat Records, Jim Aparo, G. Willow Wilson and more
• Miami's own Sweat Records is spotlighted on Matador Records' blog! Very cool. Wonder if they carry The Modern Handshake? (Matador Records, via Emma Trelles) • Four-Color Shadows has some interesting Tiffany Sinn Jim Aparo pages up. (hat tip to The Comics Reporter) •...
Self-promotion time: Faulkner Detectives talk with Tim
In case the album cover to the left of the blog and above this text didn't tip you off, I'm in a band called Faulkner Detectives with my good friends Vanessa Lopez, Meg Wilhoite and Elizabeth Keenan-Penagos. We also just released an EP - The Modern Handshake! More on...
What I’m Reading: James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss
I first started reading this book about a year and a half ago, based on my friend Connie's recommendation. I think I was a little fried on mysteries at that point (if you can believe it) - having just read a stack of Henning Mankell's Wallander books - so the first 20...
On the Tumblr: The Wire by Adam Juresko
A few links of note: McCartney, Arsenio Hall and Paolo Rivera
• Author Dean Wesley Smith talks about making a living on your short fiction. (DeanWesleySmith.com) • My buddy Alfred dissects the solo work of Paul McCartney in honor of the Fab's 70th. I think his conclusion is accurate -- that every Macca album holds one or two...
A quick Silent City update
For the handful of you who know me, either in real life or through Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, etc., you know I've finished a crime novel set in Miami -- Silent City. I've been tweeting, talking and answering questions about it for what feels like an eternity. Since I...
On the Tumblr: Phil Noto’s Mad Men
A few links of note: Corin Tucker, How to Get Into the Twin Palms and Amazon
Links that I've read and find interesting over the last day or so... • Corin Tucker will be releasing her second solo album this year, with a tour. (BrooklynVegan) • Static co-creator Robert L. Washington is in danger of receiving a pauper's burial unless enough...