Michael B. Tager
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  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    June 16, 2020

    Book for Charity!

    I put together this little chapbook over the last nine months, a compilation of my Barrelhouse short story series. I’m now “selling” them for charity. There’s a lot going on in the world and there’s a ton of worthy causes out there and they all need money. And you probably need a book. Transactions are good. So PayPal me $12 … Keep reading
    Tags: ACLU, Barrelhouse, Black Lives Matters, NAACP
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    May 21, 2020

    Making Art: May, 2020

    Oh hello! It’s been awhile hasn’t it?  I used to write these every month, but I haven’t in months and months. At first I got down on myself for neglecting it. After all, it’s important, isn’t it? Well, yeah, it might be. But so is everything I’m doing, in life, work and my writing and art. And everything requires a little … Keep reading
    Tags: Barrelhouse, Breacrumbs, Cotton Xenomorph, El Dorado Freddy's, Fear No Lit, Final Fantasy XII, Goethe Institut, Mason Jar Press, Release the Book!, Saga, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Spec Script, Writing Camp
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    August 9, 2019

    Just a shot in the arm: August 2019

    There’s fallow periods and then there’s fallow periods. I was in one of the emphasized ones. No one reason but lots of little ones. New job, older baby, lots of Mason Jar stuff, etc. I don’t have any complaints as everything is great, but my writing definitely took a hit. Three drafts in the past 7 months. That’s not a lot … Keep reading
    Tags: Barrelhouse, Heather Rounds, jaime fountaine, Light There Is to Find, N. K. Jemisin, Nicole Callihan, Pokemon, The Fifth Season, Tomas Moniz, writer camp
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    April 2, 2019

    I’m Back, Ya’ll: April 2019

    I took a bit of a hiatus for 2019. I thought it was a choice, but it turned out to be a necessity. My time was totally full and sacrifices had to be made somewhere. So it came from writing time. I didn’t do any of it, including writing these update blogs. Of course, I didn’t have much to update…because … Keep reading
    Tags: Continental Breakfast, Danny Caine, Genre 2 Magazine, Hand of Fate 2, Hugo Award, Malka Older, Marilyn Monroe, PEN Open Book Award, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Schitt's Creek, The Centenal Cycle, Tyrese Coleman
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    January 3, 2019

    New York! I’ll be inside you!; January, 2019

    2018, am I right? What a time. Things happened and that one dude was like, “what up” and then he turned out to be a jerk and then that person was all, “woah” and that was a thing. But really, it’s all nonsense cause time is an illusion and poets lie and we’ll all be stardust again. So, let’s ignore … Keep reading
    Tags: Dragon Age: Origins, How to Sit, PEN Awards, Pidegonholes, Prince, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Trumpet Fiction, Tyrese Coleman, Violent Femmes
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    December 4, 2018

    Blogmas Tour, or, Part Wit Dat Money!; December, 2018

    Ima skipping my normal monthly blog spiel–the one with the anecdote– because I want to talk a little about the Blogmas thing I’m doing with the editor of the Alphabet Anthology series I’ve been a part of, Rhonda Parrish. Every year she organizes a blog tour of her fellow writers to benefit the Edmonton Food Bank (Rhonda is Canadian). Back in … Keep reading
    Tags: Alphabet Anthology, Americorps, Barrelhouse, Blogmas, Chadwick Ginther, Christmas, Edmonton Food Bank, fourW, Giftmas, King Missile, Manchester Food Bank, pidgeonholes, Rhonda Parrish, Riverdale, Ryan Reynolds, Spec Script, Stephanie A. Cain
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    November 1, 2018

    I Don’t Know What the Next Step Is (and I Feel Fine)–A Memoir: November, 2018

    After college, I applied to Americorps, not on a whim, but as a planned action. That kind of foresight was unusual for me, though I’d had flashes of long-sighted maturity throughout my development. Just not a lot of it. And I wasn’t sure if I’d get in or if it would do what I wanted it to do–guide my career … Keep reading
    Tags: Americorps, Barrelhouse, celeste doaks, Conversations and Connections, How to Sit, Incredibles 2, Lucas Southworth, Mason Jar Press, Ni No Kuni 2, Survivor, Tafisha Edwards, Tyrese Coleman
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    October 1, 2018

    It’s not funny anymore: October, 2018

    When I was 22, I went to a party on a college campus. I was invited by my friend who was invited by this girl he was seeing who was invited by her best friend who knew the host. So, I was basically a random old dude. When I got there with my buddies, I made a beeline for the … Keep reading
    Tags: Barrelhouse, Bjork, Carmen Maria Machado, Goethe Institut, Her Body and Other Parties, How to Sit, Joe vs. the volcano, PS4, The Banner Saga, the fall of men, The Inner Loop, The Walking Dead, Tyrese Coleman, Wyman Park
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    August 1, 2018

    It’s Not (Just) About Me: August 2018

    I write a lot about myself. Which is fine and dandy (this is my website after all). But it’s important to remember that it’s all a community, and the writing community is as supportive as can be. So, instead of talking about myself or sharing my work, here’s some writing from some of those out there that I love and … Keep reading
    Tags: atticus review, Barrelhouse, cats, Dave Housley, Dave K., dorothy bendel, jaime fountaine, Jeannie vanasco, Jen Michalski, josh jones, Justin Sanders, K. C. Mead-Brewer, mandy may, Meghan Phillips, Nebula award, oort cloud, oxford comma, project runway, saida agostini, Sarah Pinsker, star trek, Stephen Zerance, Steven Leyva, the grateful dead, Towson
  • Topic: Updates and Anecdotes
    July 2, 2018

    I’m Pretty Damned Lucky: July, 2018

    You might not have heard I hurt my back a month and some change ago. Not like, “oh, there’s a twinge. Looks like I have to skip bowling tonight” and more like, “oh my god, I can’t stand, I can’t move, I want to cry and please, please don’t let me be stuck like this forever. Please, please, please.” I … Keep reading
    Tags: Americorps, Archie Bunker, Barrelhouse, Dave Housley, David Attenborough, Erin Dorney, Jeannie vanasco, kathy fish, Longleaf Review, Mason Jar Press, Necessary Fiction, pidgeonholes, Shia LaBeouf, the glass eye, this darkness got to give
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