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Matthew Michael Hanlon's Blog
October 12, 2009
- I have a habit of subjecting (that is, giving them the subject, not performing anything unto them) emails with "longtimeno" if I've been negligent in sending a reply for more than... a couple of week or so, I couldn't give you the exact scientific deadline as to when something falls into that "longtimeno" category for me, it's more of a feeling. Something to sic the ...
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January 27, 2009
- Long time no, folks. Between the Bruins being in top form this season (slight digression, saw someone else's post about the Black and Gold and thought someone else on RedRoom was writing about the Big Bad Bruins... only to see they're talking about some football team or another... ) and my day job, the one that pays our bills ($28 or so in royalty checks every six months, while nice, is not ...
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November 11, 2008
- A while ago, I was asking about audio recording recommendations from people. I got a couple, but wound up doing a little digging, myself, to see what I could do with the tools I had at hand. Well, I had an iPhone, and it had a microphone. And it had all sorts of whizzy voice recorders for various prices, so I figured I'd have a look, and see if any suited my needs. And if none did, I could ...
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October 15, 2008
- Further Fenway Fiction's been out a few years now, so readings are fewer and farther between these days, but I always find they energize me, get me back into the writing game with a little more oomph, a little more verve. And this time, I'm reading in my hometown, so I'm really looking into ways to get this reading as well if not more well-attended than previous readings. We've had good ...
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October 10, 2008
- As mentioned in the Events section, I'll be reading, along with the editor of the Fenway Fiction collections, at the Charlton Public Library on October 18th, 2008 at 1pm to around 2:30pm.I spent most of my childhood in Charlton (escaping the mean streets of Worcester, Mass. at the age of two or so), where, at the time, cows nearly outnumbered people. Now, however, people definitely outnumber cows ...
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October 1, 2008
- Preface: I generally keep track of my reading online at All Consuming, and when I finish a book which I feel deserves a little bit of extra comment I'll post a short review of why I liked it or didn't, and who might like it. The handy thing is that the review can then also be posted seamlessly to your own blog (if it's Wordpress or Blogger or one of the popular ones with an API for that sort of ...
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August 22, 2008
- For anyone desperate to pick up a signed copy of Further Fenway Fiction, you can now pick up a signed copy at The Brewster Book Store. There's one in stock, and was signed earlier today by yours truly. A great read on your holidays down on the Cape.
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July 31, 2008
- Inspired by Kristy Kiernan's post about a widget (http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristy-kiernan/are-you-author-you-must-see), I figured I'd post two of my favorite reading haunts, on the web.First off, I've been using AllConsuming the longest, and they have a fine snippet of JavaScript you can embed in your page to highlight what you're reading. LibraryThing is another good site for tracking your ...
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July 29, 2008
- Lately, to fit in some thoughtwork time wherever possible (parenthood has made me creative in ways I never thought I'd need to be about time and stealing a bit here and there, in the wee hours of the morning and in between asynchronous naps and even during feeding times), I've been thinking more and more about adding audio notes via a voice recorder to my repertoire of ways to jot down notes and ...
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July 21, 2008
- Just got word from my editor last night that he's finishing off the manuscript for Fenway Fiction Three, and my latest story about the Red Sox (or their fans, at any rate) has made it in.It's a touching story about two erstwhile gypsies from Ireland visiting their old friends, now living on the West Coast of America. One of the friends happens to be a part of that other diaspora: Red Sox Nation ...
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June 27, 2008
- I've never had a proper writing room, but for a blissful but busy three months in the winter of 2007; a Christmas present from my wife. She did up the room, bought a desk and chair, and put a few of my sister's photos of Cape Cod up on the wall. There was a window looking out onto the back garden, and it was dark, cave-like, even. It was a beautiful room. Most importantly, it had a door. At the ...
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June 25, 2008
- I had a little bit of a motivational kick in the pants yesterday evening... stopped into Book Endsin Winchester... it's my local, as it were, if we were talking about it in terms of a pub, a pub in which there's a strong focus on children's books. And no alcohol on tap (hey, they banned smoking in pubs in Ireland, it was nearly the same as banning drink, as far as some were concerned). It wasn't ...
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June 23, 2008
- I don't look like a young Truman Capote. Or an older one. Or an even older still one. The Big Bad Book Blog had an interesting post the other day about author photos, with Truman as one of their prime samples. Others include a misleading David Foster Wallace, Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Malcolm Gladwell.While I've not sat for my official headshot, I'm lucky enough to have a wife who happens to ...
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June 20, 2008
- I've always struggled with the concept of tagging stuff on the web and the, quote, power of folksonomies, end quote. I always thought they were just lazy ways of getting the user to do the bulk of the work of classifying stuff. While I'm slowly overcoming my internal battles (I'll be okay, honest), I am starting to take a shine to something I've always* associated with tags: tag clouds.Tinderbox, ...
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June 18, 2008
- Adam Pacther (my editor) talks about Fenway Fiction and Further Fenway Fiction with Chet Curtis on NECN.I really enjoy watching Adam talk about the series... he's got the whole point and stories down cold, now, and comes across really well with Chet Curtis on NECN on Monday night.
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