Keith Snyder Newsletter September, 2001 More writings  Email me to receive my next newsletter I went without sleep for a few days there and made some bad judgments, including putting everyone who's emailed me recently onto my general-purpose mailing list. Which now makes me very uncomfortable. If you want NOT to be on this list, please let me know right away and I'll remove you. Okay, here's the stuff that was about to go out before it got pre-empted by recent events, plus a couple of new items. STUFF   A few days before the recent events, our composer friend Denise Broadhurst interviewed La Diva (my wife the opera singer, Kathleen Haaversen) at a local Starbucks. The interview bits are up at http://www.mp3.com/haaversen. If you click on "Play All Tracks Now," you'll get a nice little program of interviews, documentary audio, and music. (We're also soliciting money at that site for her audition trip to Germany—she leaves Wednesday—but you can ignore it and just listen. Or you can contribute. We won't complain.)   I recently made an mp3.com page for Denise; you can listen to her compositions "Looking Up At Night" (which premiered alongside my "Five Feynman Songs" earlier this year) and "Not Waving, But Drowning" (a setting of the Stevie Smith poem, performed aboard the lightship Frying Pan the same night as my The Ship That Lies at the Bottom). I've been humming "The North Star," particularly, since I first heard Kathleen practicing it before the premiere.   My first criminous short story, "Instructions," is in the current issue of Blue Murder Magazine, a free download at www.bluemurder.com. Click on "The Magazine" to download.   My musical setting of Joseph Wallace's "The Haunted John," his account of an occupied outhouse in Africa, is up at http://www.mp3.com/joewallace. I also produced an audio CD of Joe reading his stories of Africa and New York; that's how I got access to the reading I used for the musical piece, which was a surprise gift from me to Joe. (The CD is available on the same page.)   I have four of my own CDs available on the web, and it suddenly hit me that this might be too many. So now there are five. The "Keith Snyder Sampler" contains tracks from all the others, and has a very silly cover. www.mp3.com/keithsnyder. Give the page a minute to load.   A still image from "," my Quicktime video documentary of September 15, is now a fund-raiser for the New York Firefighters' Fund. You can buy "RESIST HATE" T-shirts, mugs, etc., at www.cafepress.com/resisthate. I make no money from anything on this page.   My essay, "At Starbucks, Queens, NY" and all three NYC post-recent-events Quicktime videos ("A Walking Tour of Manhattan," "The Trip Home," and "Brooklyn Elegy") are now linked from my web site.   THE NIGHT MEN, the fourth Jason Keltner novel, will be out in time for Bouchercon. I was at Starbucks a few days ago with my laptop, and by the time I'd left, I'd written another chapter for it, an afterword. Since THE NIGHT MEN is about people bonding together in the face of what might be religious violence, there was no way I could let the story leave my consciousness without referring to recent events. I have a very good relationship with Walker & Co., my publisher, and they've agreed to something unusual: It's too late to include the new chapter in the printed book, but they will be including it in their press kits, and also printing a URL on the dustjacket so that readers can download it. There are no details yet because none of us have done this before. I'll announce something when there's something to be announced.   I'll be at Bouchercon. My official panel is November 2, 4:30: "Show Biz Can Be Murder." A few of us are also planning to find space to have an unsanctioned "Recent Events" get-together, which we're thinking will be in the form of an author panel—but we're open to suggestions. Look for hand-lettered signs around the hotel for more info.   Chris Meyer, the guy behind Alias Zone (I'm the keyboardist on the Alias Zone CD "Lucid Dreams") was interviewed on the ECHOES radio program. The interview runs 9/27   10/7, depending on where you live. Broadcast and webcast info are available at: http://www.echoes.org   If I owe you email, please accept my apology. I'm several hundred messages behind. Stay well, appreciate your loved ones, laugh at cats. I don't know about yours, but mine is pretty funny.   ©2001, Keith Snyder, all rights reserved.