April 2, 2021
I am reposting an interview I did with Christina Hamlett three years ago, shortly after launching Eye of the Moon. In that interview, I was asked […]
March 23, 2021
The process of translating Eye of the Moon into Latin American Spanish (El ojo de la luna) involved the work of several people. In this post […]
March 18, 2021
What is the one physical quantity that can be measured more accurately and precisely than any other and yet can’t be defined in a way that […]
February 16, 2021
Smith-Obolensky Media was featured in the IBPA Member Spotlight. Here is an excerpt: IBPA: How were you able to get the Latin American Spanish literary translation of […]
February 2, 2021
You will be happy to know that the first draft of the sequel will be finished very soon. This is good news for me, too. Of […]
December 30, 2020
Endings are hard because an ending, even that of a book, a work, or a year, doesn’t mean that everything stops. An ending is usually the […]
December 17, 2020
In March 2016, I wrote this article for Dynamic Doingness, Inc. As a novelist, I’m often surprised at coincidences and their later connection to other elements […]
December 3, 2020
In November 2011 I wrote an article for Dynamic Doingness, Inc. that was adapted to a video by Smith-Obolensky Media in September 2016. At the end […]
November 30, 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to revisit an article I wrote for Dynamic Doingness, Inc. in December 2015. At the end of a […]
November 19, 2020
This photograph is of the actual house in Rhinebeck I summered at. It was called Marienruh. I never called it by that name. To me, it […]
October 29, 2020
We now have the Latin American Spanish website finalized for El ojo de la luna, including the page directing where the novel is sold across the […]
October 14, 2020
The first Latin American Spanish literary translation of Eye of the Moon, El ojo de la luna, is being printed in Colombia and distributed internationally via […]
September 24, 2020
In the South Cone, Spring begins in September rather than in March. Having lived in the North so long, it takes some getting used to. North […]
September 10, 2020
Colonia, as it is known in Uruguay, is a city on the Rio de la Plata that runs between Uruguay and Argentina. The city, like Uruguay, […]
August 27, 2020
We rarely recognize golden days when we are living them. Good can only be evaluated by what we consider bad, and bad by what we consider […]