Saturday night. Went to an art opening in Seattle. Wife and family and friends were there. All was fine with the world. Here are some of the insects Adrienne makes from human hair. Visit her site. It has better pictures.

Ethel Rohan suspects it’s the last place Steve Himmer wants to be, but he deserves his place center-stage. In addition to being a tireless, dedicated, and generous editor at the helm of Necessary Fiction, Himmer is also an excellent and courageous writer determined to tell his stories his way. Welcome to Dark Sky, Steve, and thank you.

Writing wise, where are you now? Where are you going?

I’m trying to get on with a new novel, now that I’ve “finished” sending out the last one without generating any interest. Here’s hoping the bureaucratic tedium of Arctic exploration will be more appealing to publishers than decorative hermits! I’m also trying to finish a collection of stories based on tall tales. A few have been published individually, and I’d like to pull them together as a chapbook for a couple of upcoming contests. And recently I found deep in my hard drive a semi-fictional account of my summer working graveyard shift in a convenience store, which may be worth another look. If only because James Tate and Sonic Youth appear as characters.

What informs your creative process? How do you keep inspired?

I can’t read or watch TV or take a walk without getting an idea for a story. Too many, perhaps, because I get stuck vacillating between starting one project or another. I read a book about stone walls recently and could probably spend the rest of my life writing about only the questions raised by that one book (I’m not saying I will, but I could).

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