Tracy Groot, Author of Madman

I used to write essays for my old website. Things change. People don’t write essays any more, they Blog. In a visually aesthetic way, Blog is an ugly word to me. Wish they could’ve come up with something nicer. Even pronunciation isn’t nice: it’s either BLAHG or BLAWG. This should have gone to committee. We should have called it Pie. Pie is nice in every way, visually and audibly, and we could have made it mean “Blog”, because we can do that.

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They say don’t quit your day job–so I didn’t for the latest project I wrapped. Over ten years and countless revisions in the making, The Palette is a modern-day quasi-allegorical impressionistic retelling of the Reformation. With supernatural stuff tossed in. Yeah–good luck to my agent on that one. She hits the streets with it soon, and any editor interested will have to be as whacked as I am.

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