“Weeping Underwater Looks A Lot Like Laughter”: Strange Title, Promising Debut

By: Sleep Sunshine Michael J. White’s first novel begins, “On our debut night in Des Moines, Nicholas Parsons murdered a high school senior in the hotel room directly beneath us.  The following morning we received a call from the front desk receptionist announcing a cancellation of the complimentary breakfast buffet, due to the conversion of [...]

What Does A Writer Look Like? A Sleep Sunshine Contest (Part 1 of How Ever Many It Takes…)

AS POSTED ON THE PARKING LOT CONFESSIONAL: By: Sleep Sunshine Image is everything. I don’t know who I heard that from, but it’s true, especially in the Modern Marketplace. And (fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at, and possibly how much of a Control Freak you are) creating, developing, and marketing an image [...]

PLC’s 500 Club Presents: “Chocolate Birds”

Each Thursday, Parking Lot Confessional hosts a writing workshop, of sorts.  Once a week, we encourage our dedicated readers to get off their asses and write!  We present two distinct writing prompts, and urge readers/writers to create 500 word shotgun stories based on one of our prompts.  Put the story on your blog and link [...]

On Therapy and Artistic Immortality…On a Tuesday, At That

As posted Tuesday on the Parking Lot Confession.  Make-up work for missing my regular Sunday post.  Thanks for reading… Good morning, Confession-ees! I’m confessing today from strange places and times. Tuesday morning. Not my usual day. You might be thinking: WTF, him again, we know to avoid PLC on Sundays as to not subject our [...]

You Mean I Have to Sell T-Shirts? Richard Nash, the Candide of Publishing, and the Glorious Future Ahead

My Sunday confession at PLC is a profile of Richard Nash, the former publisher of the indie house Soft Skull and currently the Che Guevara of the publishing industry. Check it out here. Wishing good words to y’all. –MJG

Kicking You When You’re Down: PLC Interviews Michael James Greenwald

By: The Parking Lot Confessional Hello, and welcome to the Sunday edition of the Parking Lot Confessional Interview Series. Today, Amy K. Nichols, S.C. Green, and Amy McLane (PLC) will be tossing questions at the sometimes-cagey, chronically-complicated Michael James Greenwald. We met him on a sunny Sunday morning at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf [...]

Regular Sunday Confession in the Parking Lot Confessional

January 24, 2010 By: Michael James Greenwald If you’re a writer, sleeping with a writer, want to sleep with a writer (hey!!!!!), check out my usual Sunday blog post at the Parking Lot Confessional. “The Practice of Writing” Oh, and find out what the heck this video: has to do with anything (it might not, [...]

Guest Spot on The Parking Lot Confessional

Here’s the link to my guest post from Sunday January 17, 2009 on The Parking Lot Confessional.  I wrote on: You-Know-What or That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named (Ahem…Writer’s Block).  Please Check it out!

Cherub Pageant Drop-Out: Origins of an Attention Hog

[Every Sunday, I am guest blogger on The Parking Lot Confessional, and I will reproduce each blog from their webpage to mine.  The first blog, my intro blog, is below]. “Cherub Pageant Drop-Out: Origins of an Attention Hog” By: Michael Greenwald I’d like to first mention a couple things.  First, I’d like congratulate my fellow [...]

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