Splints and AFib and Books, Oh My…

Hi, I have some good news. My hand surgery is healing nicely. I’m in the removable splint now (no more plastic bags over my hand when I shower). Five days after this newsletter is emailed I can remove it all day, but wear it at night for a couple more weeks, at which point I …

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And That’s No Blarney…

Newsletter 008, February 11, 2022 Hi — About the image above: In Newsletter 001 I mentioned being a member of a narrative portfolio group, and that we attended several conferences to talk about our methodology. One of those conferences was held at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, in 2001. Blarney Castle is just 10 …

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What I Was Reading During the Pandemic

Picture of Michael at a NaNoWriMo event

As I mentioned in the previous post, I often read books which aren’t related to what I’m writing about at any given time. While I was in the final year of polishing and editing (and doing a ton of fact-checking) for my book, Aggravated, I acquired the full collection of Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley mysteries. …

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