Author Archives: ctan

WeSeWriMo Wrap-Up

Well, we set a goal for Web Serial Writing Month to post 3 times a week, plus two liner notes posts, which would have been 16 total posts for the month. However thanks to reader donations triggering bonus posts, it was actually an 18 post month! I hope everyone enjoyed all the plotty goodness. There’s […]

Liner Note #8

Cecilia here. So, the offices described for “BNC Records” are the offices of what was RCA Records back in the day. I didn’t change anything. RCA started out as Radio Corporation of America in the 1920s and when I first set foot in their offices in 1984 they hadn’t yet been through the mega-mergers and […]

Tip Jar Update

We’re doing it again. If you’re interested in the actual scene between Daron and Ziggy the night in Chicago, drop a tip into the Tip Jar and the bonus scene will be emailed to you as a PDF. Donations the past 2-3 weeks have been really light, so I figure this looks like a chance […]

Donate and receive a special scene…!

Okay, an enthusiastic reader convinced me to try this. In the scene just past in Daron’s Guitar Chronicles (“Madness: One Step Beyond”) our narrator has non-anonymous sex for the first time in recent memory. His account of what happened once they got their clothes off is somewhat artistically summarized. I’ve been convinced to write a […]

Liner Note #5

Hey ho, Cecilia here. Daron’s feeling anti-social today, so I’ll make the notes. I figure now’s my chance to post some things that will make him cringe! *evil laugh* First, some moments in history I bear in mind: May 1983: The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, is screened at the Cannes Film Festival. […]

Liner Note #3

Cecilia here with today’s Liner Notes. So, once upon a time there was a 2-3 block section of Washington Street in downtown Boston that was known as the “Combat Zone.” There were a couple of XXX theaters, a peep show, and some “adult bookstores” (i.e. video stores that also sold a smattering of overpriced sex […]