"The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night, dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here. And don't be so earnest." -Seamus Heaney

Here is something of interest: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/08/28/notes-from-a-bookshop-late-summer-or-summer-is-a-kind-of-island/

Kerouac’s famous manuscript, demonstrating that when you're on the road, any paper will do in a pinch....

I am reposting this notice from way back when the book came out. For a limited time, it is available at a reduced price from Amazon:

My novel, Bird in Tree, is available for purchase at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, and wherever fine books are sold.

About Bird in Tree:

Valerie Mastropietro is 19, going on 20. Fresh from rehab, she’s just glad to have escaped her adolescence with her sanity, if not her dignity, intact. Now she is pretty sure she will be okay—that no one ever again will make her do things she does not want to do.

But enter Cornelius Prince, a clairvoyant classical and jazz pianist, whose life has been all about trying to avoid meeting her. When they fall in love, and get married, the looming question in both their lives is whether or not what he foresaw is powerful enough to destroy or save.

Not only a tale of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, Bird in Tree is also a story of love and a treatise on faith and fate—featuring an albino cockatiel with a classical bias, a singer so beautiful she cannot be photographed, thirty-year-old starlight rushing through space, and childhoods of anticipation and remorse.

Here is something of note: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/08/23/nabokov-on-joyce/

I've read some of these. Try your luck:

http://flavorwire.com/409359/50-of-the-best-books-you-havent-read-by-authors-you-already-love/

My editor at Swarm and Facebook friend Peter Kispert was kind enough to post this interview on the blog over there:

http://swarmlit.com/interview-with-michael-reilly/

I am revitalizing this blog after a bit of a hiatus. I hope to get back more often, but meanwhile, some new stories have recently appeared thanks to these fine journals:

http://www.storychord.com/2013/04/issue-67-michael-reilly-ellen-mueller.html

http://swarmlit.com/spring-2013/smoke/

http://a-twist-of-noir.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Reilly