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April 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
My New Ebook: Extra Stencil Threat – Short Fiction
I’ve published a brand-new collection of short stories – it’s available now as an e-Book. Just $0.99. And only from that link up above there. These stories are from right here at Off The Tracks but now you can get a curated set of stories to check out on your e-reader/Kindle app. The stories that make […]Archive
April 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast Now Part of Substack: “Sounds Good!”
Sweetman Podcast can now be found on my Sounds Good! Substack page. Just head there and click on the Podcast tab for every episode to date. New episodes will be there. To celebrate, I’ve dropped the annual sub rate to just $35, a massive saving from the $5 a month option. Of course it’s FREE to sign up […]Archive
March 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Odenkirk: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Bob Odenkirk Penguin Random House I love Bob Odenkirk. Have done since before I knew his name. He just kept popping up on things. That same face in everything. A mild smirk. A guy who had some sadness, some trauma etched onto him and laced all through his comedy. A guy […]Archive
March 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Not Much Of A Bookstore Job
One year, when I gave up on university before it gave up on me, I made a last ditch effort to climb the hill and instead of going to class I studied the wall at Student Job Search, saw a piece of paper with a listing for a bookstore job. I’d always wanted one of […]Archive
March 10, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
For Giving Bukowski: Discovering Charles Bukowski and Letting Him Go
It was a weekday as I recall, but back then they all blurred. And I only went downtown because that was easier than going up the hill, and I went into the bookstore that I’d just discovered, because it was one of the greatest things on earth. (And it still is). Bookstores in general, but […]Archive
March 8, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Back Logging
There are folders filled with thousands of poems. And I mean thousands. And I dare not look at them. They were composed between 1990 and 1994 – but to say ‘composed’ might be going a little far. Hacked out, coughed up, farted in the general direction of a typewriter. Prolific is an insult. At the […]Archive
March 4, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
A Blank Page Never Hurt Anyone
A few days into a self-imposed Facebook exile – I’m pretty convinced I’m ditching it for good (most certainly ‘for good’) – I realise that so much of my posting was caught up in fear of the blank page. If you are writing – if you are a writer – you can justify the time-suck […]Archive
February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Finding Delmore: Only In Dreams
Delmore Schwartz was an American poet, short story writer and scholar. His most famous story is In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. It was first published in 1937 and became the title for Schwartz’ first book. That was published a year later, he was 25. The story has been widely anthologised and is a classic piece of […]Archive
February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Prize For Industrial Application
Writing is something you do. But it is also who you are – worse still, who you are trying to be. You are a writer as much as you’re ever someone who does some writing. I have always known this even when I haven’t always shown it. I am not my writing. But it is […]Archive
February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
“Sounds Good” Turns 1: My Substack Newsletter Has Been Going For One Year
“Sounds Good!” on Substack is one. A year of writing and sending out newsletters. If you’re signed up and following you might remember that as recently as two weeks ago I shared all the Friday playlists in one go – 50 weeks of A Little Something For The Weekend playlists. I called that that anniversary […]Archive
February 18, 2022 by Simon Sweetman