Today, the final installment of the insane, unpublished, unrevised notes of grad school me working in Las Vegas. Tomorrow, I will be back answering YOUR QUESTIONS.
THE TIGER DIARIES, THE FINAL CHAPTER
This part of the story is really the most embarrassing, where I became someone I did not know. I don’t know what did it. [...]

This is not today’s REAL BEDA post. This is a BONUS post.
I’m about to board a plane to leave Las Vegas, but before I leave the city of sin, I make a bet with YOU, dear readers.
A few days ago, I made a stupid pledge to go to the New York Trapeze School if the [...]

I’m still here in Vegas, watching pirate ships explode outside my window and looking at the red rocks in the distance. (Perhaps you’ve been following my reports on Twitter? What did I do before Twitter?)
Without further ado, part four of The Tiger Diaries—my never-before-seen report from a week I spent working in Las Vegas as [...]

Today’s blog comes to you FROM VEGAS, as promised. I Twittered this picture on my arrival, but Twitter ATE IT. So I want to put it here so you can see just how awesome it is:

Aw HELL yeah!
From my window, I can see a fake Manhattan skyline, real desert mountains, the Eiffel Tower, and a [...]

Yesterday, I presented part one of an account I wrote of my week working in Vegas. This happened several years ago, when I was a graduate student and would do absolutely anything for money.The story began with a little glimpse of the chaos that began on day three. (And truthfully, day three is where it [...]

So, for the majority of this week, I’m going to be blogging from LAS VEGAS. Well, I’ll be doing EVERYTHING from Las Vegas, because I’ll be there.*
I’ll tell the truth—I’ve only been to Vegas once, and I didn’t like it. It disturbed my notions of reality. It was altogether a little TOO like the Las [...]

Michelle asks: What’s a query letter, exactly, and how do you write one?
The truth is, Michelle, this is not something I really have to do very often. I mean, I wrote one or two a few years ago, but I don’t really remember what I said. I’m no expert.
I can tell you what they [...]