Interweb Interviews

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Self promo or preservation? Yesterday I hunted down a few of the interviews I’ve done recently. Or maybe all of them. I always sound very serious in these, or like I’m thinking too much, but I know people agonize over responses and I just shoot them out, hoping there’s something close to the truth there.  It’s all just make believe anyway.

Allan Hudson’s a local writer who enjoys bringing a spotlight to talent in the area (something we share). This was part of his 4Q series.

http://allanhudson.blogspot.ca/2013/05/4q-interview-with-lee-thompson-exdir-of.html

Writer, musician, blogger and now newspaperdude, Chad Pelley has interviewed me twice, once about my writing, mostly, and the second about my music, mostly. Not sure how long these blogs will be up, as both are at best in hiatus, or worst… done.

http://saltyink.com/2010/03/25/lee-thompson-busy-man/

http://somethingdaily.com/on-the-record-lee-thompson-talkin-piphers-till-light/

Sarah Butland’s a children’s author who used to be local and is now just almost local. Her spotlights often range far afield…

Meet Canadian Author Lee D Thompson

Be careful not to read all these at the same time, as something strange and terrible may be revealed.

Riddle Fence 16

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issue16 Today in Newfoundland just outside of St. John’s they are having a fabulous launch of Riddle Fence issues 15 & 16. I’m sure it’s fabulous, though maybe it’s fantastic. I have a story in 16, “The Spirit of Bill Will Forever Reside at Barney Springs,” one of those stories that began with a first line, a first that rolled out of my brain during conversation on a drive down a dark country road: “On my first full day at beautiful Barney Springs, my one on one poetry instructor, the sole reason I had come to Barney Springs, was dragged off and partly devoured by a Grizzly Bear.”  I sat on the idea for a year, perhaps. They would have to eulogize Bill, but none of them know Bill. A male, a female, an odd situation, some animals… Yup, definitely one of my stories.

It’s my third story in Riddle Fence.  I love those guys.  They pay handsomely as well.  And it’s too bad I can’t be there; my good friend Kerry-Lee Powell has poetry in issue 15.  It could have been a fine road (rowed) trip.

http://www.riddlefence.com/past-issues/issue-16

I may have done this before…

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Yes, I may have started a writerly blog before, but I can’t for the life of me find it.  I suspect it’s just like this one, mostly empty, with a message saying I may have done this before…

But I have a book coming out, an e-book, and so it’s time to get bloggy once again, if it is again, because it may very well be the first time.  The e-book is a long story, really, non-fiction even, or mostly non-fiction, creatively so.

It’s called “Diary of a Fluky Kid”.  When I first told someone that title they said, Oh, like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but I really wasn’t consciously thinking that.

Anyway, I’m going to check the mailbox downstairs.  I haven’t done that yet today.