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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Copeland talks writing, his memoir, and the Police: My guest post at WordWebbing

November 3, 2009

Day 3 of NahNoWriMo, and already I’m behind on my official unofficial word count—but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing.
A couple of months ago, the Friday Project offered bloggers the opportunity to pose three questions to Stewart Copeland as part of their Strange Things Happen advertising blitz. Three questions isn’t much, but I wasn’t [...]

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Strange Things Happen: The Green Flag

September 29, 2009

Today is my eighth wedding anniversary. (Hi, honey.)
Today is also the official U.S. release of Stewart Copeland’s Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies. (Hi, Mr. Copeland.)
Which means that today is also the official U.S. in-print debut of the Green Flag. (Hi, Flag.)
I’ve known this day would come for months. I’ve had evidence [...]

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Appropriation is the sincerest form of flattery

June 5, 2009

My friend foobella has decided that my article on stewartcopeland.net embodies her Police reunion tour experience so well that she no longer has to write about the experience herself. Which is enormously flattering. Cheating, but flattering.
Thank you, foobella.

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Strange things happen: I have a byline on the Official Site of Stewart Copeland

June 3, 2009

A 2999-word summary of the flag that ate my life.
Eventually the page will feature photos of the flag’s appearances around the world, but the site’s redesign is still a work in progress, so I’m waiting until it’s finished before I send the link to my three aunts as my mother would have wanted to do.
But [...]

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Stupid is as stupid does. Ish.

March 26, 2009

Life and work and writing have forced me to pause on the breast beatings about my mom and the continuation of the story of the story that I’m working on—but something I read this morning has prompted me to interrupt for a sidebar.
Every now and then I check in at Alyson B. Stanfield’s Art Biz [...]

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Foresight; or, How not to choose a username

March 16, 2009

name |nām|
noun
a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to
• someone or something regarded as existing merely as a word and lacking substance or reality
A name is a powerful tool. To name a thing is to identify it, and to choose a name is [...]

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Fandom, Dead Bands, & Reunion Tours

March 10, 2009

A couple of years ago, I joined a fan forum.
I had never joined a fan forum before. In truth, I had never done anything properly “fannish” before at all. Like most people, I have been a fan of things—bands, writers, poets, products. I live in a Mac household; I own multiple copies of Leaves of [...]

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