This is an excerpt from my novel What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? This work is the sequel to my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts. In this excerpt, Skye visits Powell’s Books in Portland Oregon, after having been informed by reliable sources that their Hawthorne Street branch was not the …
Author: termberkden
I am a writer, a software engineer, and a refugee from the punk/metal/new wave/my-God-what-did-we-do-last-night daze of the San Francisco scene.
I write, I run, I actually stop and smell the roses, I meow back at cats, and I pet strange yet friendly dogs.
Club Stories: The Frank Moore Experience at 924 Gilman
Back in the days of my misspent youth I saw so many shows I can’t even calculate how many bands and performances I’ve seen in my lifetime. There are a few club performances that really stick out in my memory, such as the time The Frank Moore Experience played at 924 Gilman in Berkeley, many …
Upcoming Wall Street Journal Editorials
The Wall Street Journal decided to embolden its journalistic integrity and reputation for cultural perspectives by having Joseph Epstein put First Lady to be Jill Biden in her place for daring to use the title Doctor in her name because she has a PHD. Obviously calling yourself Doctor by having achieved the pinnacle of higher …
A visit to CrustyLand – The Soup Cafe’ – An Excerpt from my Novel What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko?
This is an excerpt from my novel What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? This work is the sequel to my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts. In this excerpt, Skye finishes off her semester in the face of a major life change, and decides to waste some time in a crusty …
Awesome Movies You’ve Never Seen (Most likely…)
As a resident artiste’ of the San Francisco Bay Area I have the privilege of getting exposed to all kinds of artistic achievements that fly under the radar. Here are some movies that you’ve most likely missed or never heard of. How many of them have you seen? How many of them have you heard …
The Artists Who Made My Books Come Alive
I have published four novels and have a fifth one coming up this year. One of the most important exercises in putting out a book is getting a good book cover. Two of my books have covers that I designed myself. I am not a graphic designer, so how good an idea it is for …
A Visit – An Excerpt from my novel Crash Shadow
An excerpt from my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts, available on Amazon.com. Yuri, a junky who is new to Twelve Step, gets a visit from his new Narcotics Anonymous friend Zata at his place of work, a dark and dank warehouse in Oakland’s industrial section. He wasn’t sure why he had …
Static and Hearse – An Excerpt from my novel-in-progress What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko?
This is an excerpt from my novel What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? This work is the sequel to my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts. In this excerpt, Skye ruminates on the couple letting her stay at their house in Portland Oregon as part of her West Coast road trip. …
Wanted: One Steady Job in a Problematic Industry
Looking for work is a major drag. It’s a job in itself. I have tossed around my resume’ left and right, trying to find that rock solid forty hour a week job with bennies and stability. As it is, I make my living as a professional nerd by hustling contracts and short term jobs, usually …
That Book Promotion Business, Again!
Before I took the self publishing route I did the query thing, sending query letters to agent after literary agent and once in a while hitting up those few publishers who didn’t require agent submissions. Like so many writers all I really did was collect a big pile of rejections. And I was puzzled by …