Blogger Shame

So, no: I haven't published anything in more than a month.

I don't really have any justifiable excuse--winter blahs, an attack of lack of self confidence and work tasks getting in the way of my "real" writer life--except for my usual lazy self.

But there is some news:

As part of MoMA's Documentary Fortnight, conceptual video artist Phyllis Baldino screened and spoke about her "ParaUniVersesVersesVerses," a single channel version of her installation exploring parallel universes on February 11th at 4:00 PM.

You can read my interview with her at Fringe Underground.

I've also resumed the search for an agent for my novel, The Jar-Born Sage.

For those of you who haven't heard about this project yet:

The Jar-Born Sage is a cross genre (literary suspense/magical realism) novel about a woman’s search for a missing relative that leads her deep into the world of a female bio-terrorist faction bent on cloning their patron saint.

Jasmine Rucker and her husband Mark live an idyllic artists’ life in rural Virginia. But when Jasmine begins to have visions of a medieval saint named Simone de la Cote, a life she thought long-dead comes back to haunt her. Simone is a familiar figure to both Jasmine and her family. Her cousin, Hyacinth, is an expert on Simone’s hagiography, The Book Of Women, and a member of an elite team of scholars working on a new translation after a French reporter claims he’s discovered an ancient version of the same text. Her Aunt Eva, who disappeared five years ago, also has ties to this saint and has lived in an elaborate web of delusion and hallucination, all centered on Simone, since the early ‘80s. So when Eva sends Jasmine a letter invoking Simone’s name, Jasmine begins to suspect that there are no such things as coincidences and sets out on a journey to track her aunt down and make sense of this mythic figure who has plagued her family tree for as long as she can remember.

Four distinct but interweaving narratives trace a linear plot through the book: Jasmine’s search for Eva; Eva’s involvement with a mysterious female terrorist group bent on cloning Simone; the story of Simone’s life according to the newly-discovered ancient text; and a collage sequence that weaves all voices and viewpoints together to shed light on this mystery through the eyes of collective perception.



And I'm working on a new project (either a short story or a novella, haven't decided which) called "Stalking Paul Auster."

I still haven't chosen Feb.'s goddess-of-the-month: if you've got a suggestion, send it on!