In the Land of What Now Signing
Howdy y’all. I thought I’d drop in to let everybody know that there will be a signing of the book In the Land of What Now this Saturday at the Metairie Barnes and Noble this Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m....
View ArticleBragalicious
Over at my personal blog (which has recently been re-named), Jill of All Genres, one of my most regular types of post is what I call the “bragging post,” where I take the opportunity to brag about the...
View ArticleHollywood Car Wash by Lori Culwell
Lori Culwell was doing a giveaway of Hollywood Car Wash on Twitter. I missed the actual giveaway, but when I read the description of the book, I wanted to read it. So, I wrote her and asked her if...
View Article48 Film Project August 12-14
Team Gefilte Fish Eye shoots 'Damned Love' in Tel Aviv in 2008. A friend of mine recently told me about 48 Film Project, which is about to start its fifth year in New Orleans (and tenth year overall)....
View ArticlePeauxdunque Writers Alliance Presents Yeah, You Write
In 2007, a group of writers came together under the auspices of the Faulkner Society and the Words and Music Conference and formed Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. The crazy name came about because each...
View ArticleSisters in NaNoWriMo
A photo of your bloggers, taken by Aimee's son By Emilie In 2007, I did NaNoWriMo for the first time. I sent out the e-mail the organizers suggest, warning friends and family of what you are about to...
View ArticleThe NO Show Wants You
Host Mindy Hawes with Eritria Pitts and Andrew Larimer. Today, The NO Show is recording live at the Loews Hotel (300 Poydras), at 6 p.m. What is The NO Show, you ask? Well, it is a new-style,...
View ArticleWe return to Downton Abbey
We’ll be blogging about the third season of Downton Abbey over the next several weeks. Please assume that the rest of this post contains spoilers and don’t read further unless you’re prepared to...
View ArticleDownton Abbey Week 3 Synopsis
Oh, what an episode! Though, each episode of Downton always does cover a lot of ground and pack in the melodrama. Please stop reading now if you haven’t seen Episode Three or it bothers you to hear...
View ArticleDownton Abbey Week 4 Synopsis
First off, DO NOT READ any further if spoilers bother you because there’s at least one huge event that I will write about. Though, fans in the UK saw it in October and I’m sure other people have been...
View ArticleLocal author Ronlyn Domingue in the middle of the Simon & Schuster/Barnes &...
Recently, a friend of mine, Ronlyn Domingue, published her second novel, The Mapmaker’s War. Ronlyn’s a fantastic writer and The Mapmaker’s War is a inventive and inspired book. However, since her...
View ArticleLeast Favorite Love Songs Kickstarter Campaign
Helen Krieger, of Flood Streets fame (and one of our Femme Fatales in 2011), is working on the second season of her webseries Least Favorite Love Songs. To raise a budget for the the show, she launched...
View ArticleTango X is the place to be
The first installment of Tango X, an Argentine-tango influenced dance party, is happening this Wednesday the 17th at L’entrepôt, (527 Julia St.). A beginner-level tango class will start the evening at...
View ArticleMissing New Orleans
I was offered a place at an artist’s residency called Soaring Gardens for the month of September. I wasn’t entirely sure how I was going to finance a month of writing without a source of income, so I...
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