North Valley Art Walk, November 22nd

This Saturday, November 22nd, is another Art Walk in the North Valley, sponsored by Angel’s Serenity. If you’re on facebook, please RSVP for the Art Walk on facebook. A friendly atmosphere, a relaxed, daytime event, live music and interesting arts and crafts by local artists – what’s not to like? I haven’t at all decided which pieces to bring, so go to wretchedcreature.com, pick one you want to see in person, and email me – I’ll bring it. As always, I’ll have all my books on hand, available for purchase. The details:

Saturday, November 22, 2008
10:00am – 4:00pm
4839 E Greenway Rd, Scottsdale, AZ
(SE Corner of Greenway & Tatum)

Ep. 21: Third preview of More Lost Memories

This is, so far, my favorite of the short stories I’ve written for this collection. It centers around one of the seven main characters in Forget What You Can’t Remember, Lance, who I felt didn’t get enough time in the novel and didn’t really get to show his full journey just because it wasn’t particularly related to the path of that book’s story. So you get a look at it here. Currently called ‘Self Serve’, this story is one that will probably keep the same name when it appears in the print version of More Lost Memories. Enjoy.

Ep. 20: Lost and Not Found, Episode 11

In which the main character’s continuing second attempt to write a novel in a month follows his first long distance relationship and includes several more of his saved love letters and the details of how David finds himself falling in love with Renee in time to do something about it.

Ep. 19: Second preview of More Lost Memories

In this short story (written last week, for NaNoWriMo), we get a look at a situation that never gets fully explained, not in this story and not in the corresponding scenes in the companion novel, currently titled Forget What You Can’t Remember. It’s possible that what you’re left with here is so far from making sense that it’s a complete failure – if you think so, please leave a comment or send me an email. Heck, I’d appreciate a comment or email if you thought it was great, too.

I’m pretty sure that this story makes more sense if you’ve read the novel, and that the novel makes more sense if you read this story. I’m also pretty sure that this story doesn’t belong in the novel, and duplicating what the novel shows by putting it in the short story wouldn’t be appropriate, either.

Ep. 18: Lost and Not Found, Episode 10

In which the main character shows up to another less-than-encouraging write-in, and in which he writes about a dark turn his romantic life had taken, a strange one, and then into what turned into his first long-distance relationship.

Ep. 17: First preview of More Lost Memories

For National Novel Writing Month this year, I’m writing a collection of short stories, all connected to the novel I just finished writing in October (probably called Forget What You Can’t Remember, though no titles are yet final) in that they take an idea or character or background element and expand or focus in to give depth to that novel’s world and tell more of the stories that take place there. I expect to release both the novel and the short story collection in December, 2008. The current name of the short story collection is More Lost Memories, and for the next month or two I’m going to be giving you previews of its stories here in these mid-week episodes.

I don’t want to overwhelm you too quickly by going right into one of the longer ones (although admittedly I haven’t finished any of the longer ones quite yet), so today I’ve recorded the shortest story. It’s only 825 words long.

I hope you enjoy it.

Ep. 16: Lost and Not Found, Episode 9

In which David -the protagonist of the main character’s second attempt at writing a novel, a thinly veiled fictionalization of his own love life- meets, dates, finds love with, and loses Dawn.