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Well, a lot has happened since the last update. Since I’ve got at least two new books coming out, I think it’s time to start catching up.The highlights:1. I moved to the UK in July 2020. I accepted a position as Course Leader...

I wrote a couple of things, and they’ve ended up being shared on social media more widely than I was expecting. The first was meant as comfort and encouragement because so many friends and colleagues in the US and other...

There’s quite a bit of news. I have two academic books in the pipeline, both co-edited with Sam Meekings, a friend and colleague who’s from the UK but is based in Qatar. We met a couple of years ago at the very...

I just finished the first draft of the book I’ve been wanting to write for… oh, probably 30 years now. This would be the memoir of my life up through graduation from university. The title is I Wouldn’t Normally...

The first few reviews, interviews, and other items of publicity are out: This wonderful review from Out in Print was published first: https://outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/inhospitable-marshall-moore-camphor-press/...

There’s lots to announce! First of all, Inhospitable is out. Finally! At last! Here’s a link to the Camphor Press page for the book. There, you can either order it directly from them, or you can follow the links to...

One of the cool things about having a book coming out is being interviewed. I enjoy the process so much more now that it takes place mostly online. Back in 2003, when The Concrete Sky was about to be published, a friend who...

There are a few new developments where my writing (creative as well as academic) is concerned, and I’ll be presenting at a couple of conferences this summer. I’ve finished a new short story, “The Man Who Loved...

Earlier today, I finished a new short story I’d been working on for a couple of months, “The Trousers Had Opinions of Their Own.” This was one of those peculiar stories that came to me out of nowhere. Or not:...

Huge news. I’ll get to the point. I’ve sold Inhospitable, the novel I wrote for my PhD. Camphor Press in Taipei will be releasing it sometime in mid-2018, probably May or thereabouts. I’m very pleased (honest)...

I’ve somehow managed to crank out a couple of new short stories in the last few weeks. This feels like an interesting development because of how it came about: I had slogged through almost 4000 words of another one and...

Here’s the latest. There’s a new publication impending, a scholarly article on the subject of writer’s block. “Articulate Walls: Writer’s Block and the Academic Creative” (I think that’s...