I clothe myself
in compliments
the adoring words
of strangers
I tie back my hair
with retweets
Author: Chris Tullbane
Author of five books you can't yet buy and innumerable poems you may never read. :-)
Stories From a Post-Break World
In last week’s blog post, I announced plans to take my two short stories from this site, clean them up, and release them on Amazon. As newsletter subscribers already know, those plans became reality last night!
See These Bones and its sequels are understandably focused on Damian and his struggles, but it’s a big, broken world out there. These tales offer brief glimpses of events and places far beyond Damian’s reach, often touching on locations or secondary characters from the main series. They also give me an opportunity to play around with different perspectives and writing styles.
People seemed to dig the earlier drafts, and I’m thrilled to bring them to the wider audience of Amazon!
Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K
February is always a weird month. Shorter than every other month, colder than most, with Valentine’s Day and (in the USA) Presidents Day thrown in just to keep everything confusing. Historically, it’s been a month where I get almost nothing done.
This year’s February has been different. Even more hectic than usual–from a Vancouver trip to house guests to a parade of home warranty excitement–but also more productive. And we’re only halfway through the month? Strange things are afoot, indeed!
Poetry: Introduction
This is my knee
It creaks
when it bends
like the old willow tree
at the house
we lived in
when we kids
…but why?
One of the great things about being an independent author is that you get to make all the decisions. Feel like writing a fifteen-volume series about trans-dimensional robots searching for fresh strawberries on a lava planet? Go for it. Feel like capitalizing every third word in a sentence? I question the long-term strategy, but you be you. Feel like releasing your book on a certain day? There aren’t any publishers to tell you not to.
Poetry: Funeral Pyre
Grey snow in the air
and the wind that spins
around and up and through
skeletons of what was,
silhouettes that crumble
and disappear.
2020 Writing Goals
It took everything we had. It took grit and gumption and the unconstrained passage of time, but we finally did it. We made it to the new year! A year of optimism, baby yoda memes, 20/20 vision jokes, and, of course, goals and resolutions. Which means it is finally time to share my 2020 writing goals, in all their wildly-optimistic glory.
A Goodbye Letter to 2019
Dear 2019,
At the risk of repeating myself… you’ve been a year.
The older I get, the more individual years tend to blur together. As a child, every year felt different and new. As an adult, it often feels like one single strand of time, occasionally dotted with holidays and vacations.
2019 Review: My Top 5 Posts
The year is almost over, and 2020 is lurking somewhere in the clouds above us, waiting for the moment we should cast our eyes skyward to come crashing down upon us in all of its fury. But we’ll worry about 2020 some other time. Like… a week or so from now. As I did last…
December Wonderings
And poof. Just like that, it’s December. Time has a way of speeding up around the holidays, and this year has been no exception. Between See These Bones’ book launch, a five day water fast, Thanksgiving, my birthday, and a trip to Florida for my mother’s birthday, you’d be right to wonder if I’d gotten…