Angels

Monday, September 22, 2008

I'm getting some drawings together for yet another misguided, unpublishable book. It's called Angels, and what it amounts to is a collection of all the different kinds of angels there are.

For instance.
I have about 50 so far, but I imagine I could go on for quite some time. And it's okay that it's not going to be a book. That's just how I think of almost everything I do, including making breakfast and walking the dog: Can it be a book? I'm thinking. It usually can't.

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I think "remarkable" is going too far, but I'm glad to help.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

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Maddie, the Rat Terrier

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Those are her REAL ears! She's five months old . . .

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The Vestiges of a Children's Book I Never Wrote

Friday, August 15, 2008


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High School Confidential

Thursday, August 14, 2008


Last summer everybody at Hoover High School, which you will find in Hoover, Alabama, were forced to read Big Fish. This is a program similar to those One Book/One City programs, where they pick a single book for everyone to read. It really is a good idea. Everybody has a common knowledge, something other than sports and Britney -- something different to talk about.

At any rate. The good folks at Hoover -- which is a mere fifteen miles or so from where I was born -- created a message board for the students to post their responses to the book. Hoover High must be one of those schools for the over-achievers among us because these guys are smart and articulate. Even those who really didn't care much for the book.

Here's a link to it.

p.s. A lot of people didn't much like the way I portrayed women in the book. I have to agree with them. I don't like it much either.

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Updates

Thursday, August 7, 2008

1. Absolutely no response from the editorial population communicating a desire for one of my short stories. Jeez.


2. We got another dog. Maddie, Squirrel Dog, born March 28th.



3. 66.6% through novel, tentatively called Roam.



4. Graduated from college in July.


5. About to start my new job as a real professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A dream come true.

6. A story in New Stories from the South.

7. Going to Atlanta, Brattleboro, Austin and Miami for Mr. Sebastian in the fall.

8. Can't tell you this one. It's a secret.

9. Got my iPhone
10. Taking singing lessons.

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Publish this. Please.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008


It's summer, and I've been getting a fair amount of work done. I've been working on a novel, on a script, drawing lots of my little pictures, and writing stories. I don't send out stories to magazines very much; as any writer can tell you, submitting can be a chore. What this means is that I have a lot of unpublished stories here. Good stories (if I can say that without being the kind of guy who would say something like that).

So I thought I'd try a little experiment. If you're a magazine editor and would like to consider one of my stories for publication in your magazine, please contact me. If you're reading this, you know something about me, and I would like to know something about you, so please include all the information about your publication you can. I'm not demanding a ton of money. I do like to see my stories in nice-looking magazines, and I also prefer national distribution, if possible. Other than that, I'm wide-open.

Among the stories available for publication are: "The Monkey Woman": obviously, about a woman and a monkey; " The Cancer Diet": sad/funny/bittersweet; " The Fortune Ruined Me": a trust fund baby, now middle-aged, lives beneath the stairs of his family home in order not to have to face the real world; "Rudy": "Rudy" is about a young couple who have several disastrous relationships with dogs. And ""Graveyard Days," about a guy who picks up women in a graveyard.

That's about it, dear editor. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Daniel Wallace

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