“Scream in Hell” — a dark painting by @JustAfterSunset

Writer/artist Stephanie Wytovich was one of my students at SHU.  She gave me this great weird painting as a parting gift shortly before she received her BA degree.  She didn't tell me its title, if it has one.  So I'm calling it "Scream in Hell"...which is probably what writing that final paper for my Lit Crit course was like.... But seriously, she's quite a talent, and really knows her stuff.  So watch out for Wyto!  She's already begun publishing her dark poetry and short fiction here and there (see links on her blog), and she's currently enrolled in our MFA…

Kindle Experiments

I've begun another series of weird photos -- "Kindle Experiments" -- over on my flickr gallery. Just having fun messing around with shots of my amazon kindle. Let me know what you think. Plans are afoot with publishers of my backlist to produce ebook versions of my novels and collections in the year to come. Keep an eye on my Amazon profile if you're looking for something new for your kindle, nook, kanookiedindle, et cetera.

Experimental Photography of the @amazon #Kindle

Over on my flickr gallery, I've started posting a new series of experimental photos with my amazon kindle e-book reader.  Above is a treatment of the Emily Dickinson screensaver... will be posting more directly on flickr. And here's a really interesting discussion by Jason Gignac, who points out some problems inherent to the Dickinson portrait in itself.