Author Archives: Pat Bowne

Over-worked

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Pat Bowne

NOT meaning I have too much to do. The artistic kind of over-working, where something is touched up with a fine brush until it loses its brio. I spent my vacation in a seaside town, which meant I got to … Continue reading →

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Seeing vs Reading

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Pat Bowne

I bought sketchbook for my Kindle Fire, and all last summer I messed around with it. I can’t say I made much progress. This Xmas, though, I took the kindle to Texas with me and because the weather was lousy … Continue reading →

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Shop talk, AARRGGHH!

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Pat Bowne

I spent my entire life not caring about The New Republic, or The National Review, or whatever it was called. But now something or other has happened to it, and that’s upset a lot of journalists, and my feedly has … Continue reading →

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Gained in Translation?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Pat Bowne

Coming from a family of Danish immigrants, my mother had some European odds and ends associated with Christmas. Nothing elaborate – some ornaments of dwarves with chenille arms and legs, seated on alder cones and playing musical instruments; one of … Continue reading →

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Mother Cats, Teachers, and Buzzwords on the Internet: a tortured analogy

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Pat Bowne

Fredrik deBoer is on a righteous ranting roll this fall over the failings of the online left. In particular, its desire to sort the world into good and bad based on buzzwords and its deer-in-headlights bafflement when someone who is … Continue reading →

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Authors Behaving Badly

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Pat Bowne

Seriously? An author traveling to another country to track down a reviewer who panned him, and attacking her in a grocery store? An author stalking a negative reviewer, going to her house and looking into her car? This is bat-shit. … Continue reading →

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A New Story!

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Pat Bowne

My creation myth ‘Great Light’s Daughters’ is in the Third Flatiron Press’s “Abbreviated Epics” anthology. Go forth and read! It can be purchased at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/478247 and Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NRA6A2W TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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A Rant About Followers

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Pat Bowne

Someone reposted a few paragraphs from Quinae Moongazer’s very excellent essay on toxicity and abuse in online communities. They just happened to be paragraphs about the backlog of unpublished blog posts she had written: When I mention the icebox of … Continue reading →

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Let’s Outsource Breathing While We’re At It

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Pat Bowne

Here’s the most irritating quote I’ve seen this year. “Do not publish any author who does not understand or is disinclined to co-operate with the notion that they are your most important salesperson, no matter how important what they have … Continue reading →

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Examples

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Pat Bowne

I was thinking about feminism in the shower this morning. Specifically, I was thinking about the recent videotaped chat between bel hooks and Gloria Steinem, and how it provided a great example of friendship between feminists. But because feminism’s main … Continue reading →