Might as well be happy about it!

Yes, more snow today.

But it is a fraction of what everyone in NYC is getting. (And oddly enough, the weather app on my iPhone is still not saying snow, but I can step out onto my sidewalk and get snowed on right now.)

Anyway!

It’s only about an inch.

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Yes, as we speak, the AC guys are here yet again — but this time, it should only take a few minutes. But I’m set up at my kitchen table. And the cats are corralled in the upstairs bedrooms.

Except I discovered that Mean Frannie McFee somehow wound up on a chair in the dining room. But she is so unfriendly that there’s no fear she will get anywhere near the AC guys and discover that we have a basement (that she would love to get lost it, if only she knew!!).

And, yes!!

Yet again, I heard from Sandra right in the middle of all this. It is just so weird. I guess now I know that if there’s ever an emergency and I need to speak to Sandra and can’t get in touch with her, I can just call the HVAC company and have the AC guys come out to the house, and, voila! Sandra will somehow appear.

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Okay.

The good news is that I have also re-published the eBook edition of Twilight of the Immortal over at Amazon Kindle. So that is back in action now, too!

After the promo for The Guitar Hero Goes Home ends on Friday (it is currently free to download at Kindle), Twilight of the Immortal will be free to download for a few days, as well.

Meanwhile, you can download it here for $3.99 if you so choose!!

And just FYI, if you want to buy the print edition of the book, please buy a copy that has the above cover. There is a trade paper edition still floating around out there, with a different cover. It’s from the original print run with a small literary press, but it is loaded with typos and I eventually cancelled that contract and then published it myself.

Oh, and yes, this is the novel that, after having read the completed manuscript, my agent said was “my masterpiece” while we were having lunch together at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. She compared it to F. Scott Fitzgerald and then went on to assure me that “unfortunately, no one is buying F. Scott Fitzgerald right now”. And she was right.

However. I still love the novel and I love that at least my agent considered it my masterpiece! It’s about Hollywood in the early 1920s.

From the back cover: “”…as a feminist deconstruction of a time in American history when the life and career choices women enjoyed were constrained in so many ways, the clear voice of young, bisexual, Rosemary McKisco shines a light on the politics of gender and sexuality in a visceral way that nonfiction almost never achieves. For me, the only disappointing part of reading Twilight of the Immortal was reaching the end.” — MB Austin, author of Running Off Radar

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Speaking of books!!

New York Review of Books has re-released the 2005 novel, Godlike, by Richard Hell!!

If you love the East Village in NYC in the 70s and poets and drugs and sex, you will love the book.

You can buy it here!

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Okay.

Yesterday was the 4-year anniversary of the passing of Mark Lanegan, which I find sort of hard to believe.

Honestly, gang. where does the time fly to???

Mark Lanegan wrote so many great songs, and here’s one I love. “Churchbells, Ghosts”, from his final album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, 2020:

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And here’s this.

From Phyllis Stein, another fabulous photo of Willy DeVille. this one is from the documentary about him, Heaven Stood Still, 2022.

Sadly, the film is not available yet for online streaming, but here is a trailer:

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And here’s Keith at home in Connecticut in 2000!

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And here’s this!

Wow. Nick Cave sent out a really great Red Hand File today. It was about Wim Wenders’ speech at the Berlinale film festival the other day. When I read the speech in Variety that day, I thought to myself: Finally. Someone is getting back to real life and moving forward with ART.

Nick said, in part: “...I think Wim’s words moved me because they might serve to usher in a fresh appraisal of the cultural space before us, where art reclaims its dynamic nature. Perhaps his words will encourage artists to feel confident expressing how they truly see themselves, in all their radical complexity and diversity, to say, ‘This is what I am. This is how I feel.’…”

He also said: “…its lovely openness alone filled me with a kind of relief, a sense of freedom and sudden potential. I expect, beyond the clamour, many felt the same.”

I totally felt the same.

You can read it in full here.

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Okay, I think that’s it for today.

I have to get a revised cover letter over to Sandra so that we can send in our TV project proposal today! Yay!

And then I have to write a back cover blurb for The Curse of Our Profound Disorder so that Parisian Phoenix Publishing can get that much closer to sending my novel off to the printer!! Yay!!

And I am also working on a short story to send to Parisian Phoenix Publishing, for a call for submissions they sent out the other day: