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Check out my podcast interview for the "Running Wild Anthology," available now, featuring my short fiction. Gritty, imaginative, fun. #amwriting #fiction #shortstory #podcast #Blogs #NYCstories @RunWildBooks

The Running Wild Podcast Hey there, friends! As of March 15, the “Running Wild Anthology of Stories” Volume 2 is available from Running Wild Press, including my short story, “Dawning.” Here’s a podcast that contributor Tone Milazzo recorded with me, plus interviews with other authors from this varied and captivating collection. Kudos to editor Lisa Diane Kastner for capturing such an emotional…

Iconic ’80s Possessions

  Authentic ’80s Iconic Paraphernalia Something kind of neat that one of my friends from the ’80s groups I follow reminded me of: In my office sits an original script for Saint Elmo’s Fire.  I worked at Columbia Pictures, 1986 – 1988, my first real job out of college. I did script research and had access to a library of hundreds of scripts at the offices in New York and in California, which was…

Harry Potter, Gloucester Cathedral, & Me

Harry Potter, Gloucester Cathedral, & Me When I did my semester in England back in the mid ’80s, the first thing they did to acclimate us was send us on a “homestay” weekend with a family in the countryside. A bunch of us were sent to a town called Gloucester, where several families had volunteered to entertain us for the weekend. I stayed with a lovable family who chose me because the parents…

Moving Out With Barbie

A version of the below just won First Place in the Pennwriters’  “In Other Words” contest, during the association’s 30th Annual Pennwriters’ contest. It’s just been entered in the WOW Flash Fiction contest: Moving Out With Barbie I used to wish my parents would divorce, so my mother and I could have some peace. We could barely afford school clothes as it was, so how much worse could it be without…

Mothers: The Determining Factor

A Heritage of Mothers 1992 Only my husband still remembers that when I was a teenager, I said I wanted to have six children. SIX. Also, recently my daughter and I asked each other what we thought we would be if we didn’t become writers. She told me she would have wanted to go into child care. I believe that someone can only come to these kinds of conclusions when they have been born into a long…

Read my #Party-girl #poetry: Most of the Lights #NYC #songlyrics

Since becoming immersed in my latest novel project, I find myself awash in the angst of the coming-of-age milieu. This is when young women are set loose in the exhilarated world, while simultaneously introduced to the inexorable weight of adulthood. I recall memories of the party-seeker on the cusp of realization, learning, gradually, that the more you chase thrills in lieu of happiness, the…

#MondayBlogs: #Police! #TalkingHeads! Tears 4 Fears! Check out my Hot-Hot #80s Video Challenge #newwave

The ’80s Video Challenge   I was challenged recently to post my choice of videos from the 1980s. Boy, did they pick the right girl. I thought I’d share my selections along with my commentary, for those of you who maintain a sense of nostalgia for the best decade in musical history. Enjoy. Don’t be envious, Millennials. We’ll continue to share our sensibility with you. The Police: King of Pain,…

OK, so I'm "The Scariest Chick on 2 Feet" #AmWriting #authorbranding #fiction

The Scariest Chick on Two Feet Notice I changed my banner on this blog. I replaced the slanted view of my living room with a pinky-orange fishnet placard that matches the collage for my Channillo.com short story series, “A Run in My Tights.” More significantly, I changed the tagline from “Living Ironically” to: “Chick with an Attitude.” Time to own-up. At a recent GLVWG writer’s conference,…

Read my short story in The Write Stuff Anthology 2016, now on Kindle #amwriting #humor

Look!  It’s a buy link!  The GLVWG Write Stuff Anthology is now available on Kindle and eBook format, for the first time, including my short story: CHANGE FOR DOMENICK Never go on your first date with a guy who asked your mother out first. Especially if she has this near-psychic ability to pinpoint a person’s true character down to the bone within two minutes of meeting somebody. My mother was…

Novel Chptr: How did that bassist guy fit through my basement window? Read: Excuse Me, Waitress... #anwriting

NOVEL EXCERPT: EXCUSE ME, WAITRESS, IS THAT NEW JERSEY? Note I’ve given this novel excerpt its own page in the WORKS section, but wanted to link it via post in the ongoing blog section as well.  So feel to visit the corresponding works entry to read the chapter. Synopsis below: EXCUSE ME, WAITRESS, IS THAT NEW JERSEY New Adult,  80K words Retro Fiction ©2016 *language Post-punk, mid-80s…

Novel: Excuse Me, Waitress, Is That New Jersey

I hate to get bossy, but take a read of an excerpt of my new novel, Excuse Me, Waitress, Is That New Jersey, to be housed on THIS PAGE in the WORKS of this site more permanently. BTW, I lied. I love to get bossy. So click off.   

Sex Beats Jewelry: A Modern #Valentine’s Day Moment #blog #amwriting

Better Than Jewelry: A Modern Valentine’s Day Vignette   Not too many years ago, I drove in for a Valentine’s weekend lunch with one of my best blonde buddies and another couple. It was during the recession, when my husband’s job as a mortgage broker had dwindled to nothing, and my hours had just been slashed. It was a frugal Valentine’s Day. But not for everyone. My girlfriend’s husband worked…

Will the Next David #Bowie Please Put on a Dress? My latest blog if you didn't catch it on HuffPost

Will the Next David Bowie Please Put on a Dress? [Click to read on my Huffington Post blog.] I’m in a state of mourning, and for more than just the loss of a music icon (or two) this month. I’m stricken by the fact that there is no one to succeed David Bowie—and I’m downright rancorous over the reasons why. For someone who experienced college in the mid-80s, it’s particularly wounding to realize…

Quarters With The #Chippendales: Another NYC Adventure. Have a giggle. #drinking #beer #memoir

Quarters With the Chippendales I see the Chippendales dancers are doing a tour this year, including in my home town. I guess we have “Magic Mike” to thank for dredging back up the franchise; I thought they were defunct for a while. I have a Chippendales story. My first job out of college, I worked in Manhattan as a researcher with a major entertainment company. It was a lousy, entry-level job…

If 50 is the New 40, Is 25 the New 15? #amwriting #blogs #age

Here’s my first blog appearing in the Huffington Post/Post50 Section.  Somebody had to say it! Anyone who’d like to read it directly online, click here.       Suzanne Grieco Mattaboni Blogger, fiction writer, PR professional and over-sharer on http://www.copywritelife.com, @suzmattaboni Why Menopause Is ‘A Blast’ Posted: 11/30/2015 8:00 am EST Updated: 11/30/2015 8:00 am EST Years ago, I dreamed…