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I do a lot of freelance writing -- books, magazine and newspaper features, am a regulart contributor to the San Diego Reader and have published books with Tor/Forge, Avalon Publishing, Carroll & Graf, Thunder's Mouth Press, Blue Moon, Eraserhead Press, Cyberpsychos AOD, Prime Books, The Borgo Press, Wildside Press, and Permeable Press, etc. Books repped in New York by the James Fitzgerald Agency. Am home writing most days. Yes, I do make a living at it, and have for the past eleven or so years.My first indie feature, THE WATERMELON, completed filming this summer 07 by LightSong Films and is finishing post-production and will be hitting the festivals later in 2008.See:www.imdb.com/title/tt0945521/My second indie feature, STATIONS, is expected to start shooting mid 2008, via Hemlene Entertainment, Hand Picked Films, LightSong Films and Jordan River Productions.Aside from novels and screenplays, I have also been publishing in the academic field, with various essays and forthcoming books: a postcolonial, posthuman critical monograph ..rek for Wayne State Univ. Press; an ethnography, cultural anthropological study of Zona Norte in Tijuana; a critical study of Harlan Ellison; a critical monograph of Barry Malzberg; a critical study of Gordon Lish for Routledge and The Anthropology of Pornography for SUNY Press.For Borgo Press, THE DIRTY REALISM DUO - Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver on the Aesthetics of the Ugly will be out mid-008, along with a collection of essays called AUTO/ETHNOGRAPHIES - Sex, Death, Love, and Independent Filmmaking in San Diego and Los Angeles.I am currently shopping an interpretive biography of Raymond Carver and writing a novel called THE AGENT.
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I'd like to meet:

David Lynch, David Cronenberg, David Mamet, Nina Hartley, Aurora Snow, Hollie Stevens, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Whitley Strieber, Art Bell

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Some stuff

Not much happening...Star Trek book out...an annotated bibliographic checklist of Raymond Carver's limited editions/small press books was accepted by Resources for American Literary Studies, an annual...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:09:00 GMT

The Watermelon @ Netflix

Soon you can rent the movie I wrote, The Watermelon, at Netflix:http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Watermelon/70119746 ?lnkce=seRtLn&trkid=222336&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=169642524 5_0_0
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:04:00 GMT

Star Trek: A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series

My book on Star Trek is now out.From publisher:http://www.wildsidebooks.com//Star-Trek-A-Post-Str uctural-Critique-of-the-Original-Series-by-Michael-Hemmingso n-40trade-pb41_p_3705.htmlFrom Amazon:http:...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:31:00 GMT

Bill: A Novel Told in Tweets

http://www.ninthlink.com/wordpress/2009/05/04/bill...Powered by ShareThis
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 04:10:00 GMT

Zona Norte Blog

http://zonanorte09.wordpress.com/
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:19:00 GMT

New Trailer for The Watermelon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPqFgA__3U
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:17:00 GMT

Essay

Essay on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen accepted for the summer issue of Science Fiction Studies.
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:56:00 GMT

Life in Zona Norte

Documentary posted here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvF8IPdb4c8
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:52:00 GMT

Making a documentary film in Tijuana

That is what I have been up to lately.See here:www.zonanorte09.wordpress.com
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:09:00 GMT

The Watermelon

I'm recording the writer's audio commentary for the DVD extras of The Watermelon today. DVD and Blu-Ray set for July 4 release from http://www.cvdistributes.com/videos/drama.htmlGee, am I a "filmmaker...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:06:00 GMT