New #Memoir #Selling Better than All My #Fiction #Books Put Together

Hey....My new memoir is selling so much better than all of my fiction put together.  I mean it's been up to single digits in ranking on certain behemoth book selling sites, which shall remain nameless, even though I linked to it above. And it's a "Memoir in Essays", even.  I remember when people said essays never sell.  Hmmm? So strange...I don't know. Maybe people want to know about reality more than about anything else.  Reality TV, Books based on real life. 

Anyway, not complaining. SO NO COMPLAINING!!! Just feeling bad for good old fiction, which in my mind lets you tell the truth way more than good old nonfiction.  

Also, here are a few of my favorite reviews, FYI, in case you are wondering:

Here: Kirkus

Here: Hippocampus Review

Here: Medium

Interview here:  Lambda Literary

Playlist here: Largehearted Boy

KIRKUS REVIEW: HOW NICE OF YOU....

 THIS FROM KIRKUS! 

About time for a new book?

I'm starting to feel a bit more like myself after 2.5 years with Long COVID. I still haven't exercised, but I will soon have published a memoir in essays (November 15th 2022). So, there's that. I will post a retrospective of all the rejections I received before getting it published.  It's a little delayed due to circumstances beyond the publisher's control like health crises.  Keep an eye out for it, yes? 

Bloomberg News Needs to Work On Titles That Don't Freak Me Out, Please.

So this little pretty was published at Bloomberg News about brain shrinkage in long Covid, titled "COVID Can Shrink the Brain as Much as a Decade of Aging, Study Finds." The New York Times titled the story a bit more calmly, though still slightly alarming:"COVID May Cause Changes in the Brain, New Study Finds." The actual article in Nature is titled even more accurately, noting that this is an observation from banked bio-data in the UK:  "SARS-CoV-2 is Associated with Changes in Brain Structure in UK Biobank."  

Decide for yourself.  

It might just be that I'm a little touchy on the matter of not having the brain power I had before long COVID.

Published A Teensy Piece about Long COVID Clinical Trial

Temporary LROD Closure Due to Long COVID

I'm closing down LROD—temporarily (I hope)—due to the fact that I am still struggling with long COVID. Instead of literary matters (other than I still am at some level a writer), I plan to write about the crazy efforts I'm making to get better.  It's not exactly snake oil, but it is:   low dose Naltrexone, Nitric Oxide Drops (the kind weightlifters take to increase blood flow to their muscles after pumping iron: to be clear, I'm not lifting weights, I'm lying in bed, trying to find ways to exercise without making myself worse), flavonoids, Chinese herbs, vitamins (D, B, C, E), fish oil (fractionated), Co-Q10, Ginseng, CBD, Tylenol (for muscle pain, though again, I'm mostly lying in bed), probiotics, acupuncture.  I'm also in a long COVID clinical trial at a local university.  Guess what that entails.  After a barrage of baseline testing (e.g., glucose tolerance, MRIs, body-fat indices, blood tests, swallowing a body temperature sensor), I will be strapping on scuba-like pants that will circulate heat to my lower body 5 days a week for 8 weeks: 40 minutes sessions of heat therapy.  I keep asking the study coordinator if the other four people who've completed the study report feeling any better. After pressing her for weeks, she finally gave a definitive answer.  "Feeling better is really very subjective."  

     This is how desperate I am to get better.

     Very desperate.

     So far, though: no luck. 

THOUGHTS ABOUT PUBLISHING A MEMOIR & LONG COVID UPDATE

LONG-HAUL COVID (16 months from exposure): Finally Getting Better

Back to our regularly scheduled programming & free from COVID lock-down, though not so free from #Long-Haul #COVID

After this post, we will resume our regularly scheduled literary rejections. Just in time as I am sending out the graphic novel at long last. You are free to move about the country now until further notice. Thanks for joining me on this crazy ourney.

DAY FOUR WITH COVID VACCINE IMMUNITY: WRITER NOT QUITE CURED OF COVID SYMPTOMS

DAY THREE-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN OF LOCKDOWN: #LONG-HAUL @COVID #VACCINE #CURE

DAY THREE-HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE (From March 21st): Second to Last Symptom Video(Though I didn't know it)

DAY THREE-HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE: (From March 17th): ALMOST LAST COVID SYMPTOMS (I DIDN'T KNOW THIS AT THE TIME)

Walking Again: #POST-COVID SYNDROME LITMUS TEST IS EXERCISED...I FAILED THE FIRST TEST.

DAY THREE-HUNDRED AND TWENTY_FOUR: YOGA NO GO #COVID UP AND #COVID DOWN #MUSCLE PAIN AND WEAKNESS