Beginning of a beginning?
M. L. Doyle | December 16, 2020
Tags: COVID, Electoral College, Master Sergeant Harper, Vaccines
It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted to this blog. Frankly, I’ve been far more upset and on edge about where we are as a nation than I was able to admit to myself. Then, while watching the...
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What I Can Control
M. L. Doyle | August 8, 2020
Tags: COVID, economic hardship, frustration, guilt, ML Doyle, writing
I will not be writing fiction or much of anything else for the foreseeable future. I know withdrawing from writing fiction at this time won’t make much of a difference in the scheme of things. My small group of readers...
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Random Thoughts on COVID-19
M. L. Doyle | April 13, 2020
Tags: COVID-19
My gratitude that I and everyone in my immediate family have jobs that allow us to telecommute and still earn a paycheck is endless. My 88-year old aunt is the only person I know of within my extended family who...
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How Coronavirus Touched Me
M. L. Doyle | March 7, 2020
Tags: Association of Writers and Writing Programs, AWP, conventions, Coronavirus, virus, writing conferences
Let me say up front, my decision was mostly a financial one. Two days before I was scheduled to head to San Antonio for The Association of Writers and Writing Convention (AWP), where I was schedule to appear on a...
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I Want One Too
M. L. Doyle | February 15, 2020
Tags: author discussion, autographed copies, Book Club, book discussion, discussion questions
I know the correct emotion is to feel happy for her instead of jealous. I know I’m supposed love hearing her stories about it, instead of wishing I had stories of my own to tell. And of course I know...
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The best of 2019
M. L. Doyle | December 15, 2019
Tags: 14, An Heir to Thorns and Steel, Andrew Mayne, Attica Locke, By Vow and Royal Blood Bath, Dhonielle Clayton, James Dommeck Jr., Jonas Jonasson, Juliette Fay, M.C.A. Hogarth, Meg Elison, Midnight Son, On Wings of Bone and Glass, Peter Clines, Radio Girls, RR Haywood, Sarah-Jane Stratford, Te-Nehisi Coats, The Belles, The Book of Etta, The Book of Flora, The Cutting Season, The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden, The looking Glass, The Tumbling Turner Sisters, The Water Dancer, The Worldship Humility, Tina Glasneck, Zero Hour
I’m not big into numerology, but I think we can all agree that the numbers 2020 are just damn cool. No matter how you write it, there’s something magical about it. Twenty-twenty, 2020, two-zero, two-zero. Am I right? So, it’s...
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