{"id":1809,"date":"2014-09-09T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2014-09-09T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:32:12","slug":"where-you-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/where-you-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Where You Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1809\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fwhere-you-been%2F&amp;text=Where%20You%20Been&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fwhere-you-been%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/where-you-been\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>And by &#8220;you,&#8221; I mean me. I&#8217;m making YOU ask ME that! Even though you maybe weren&#8217;t even wondering! Oh, writing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, while I haven&#8217;t been posting regularly here much lately, I&#8217;m not dead, nor have I given up. In fact, I&#8217;ve been plenty busy, and I&#8217;m about to get even busier. But I feel I owe an explanation. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on, category by category:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m teaching two undergrad writing courses at Western CT State University, where I&#8217;ve been an adjunct in the writing department (undergrad and the MFA program) for two years.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m now also teaching two sections of Media History at Mercy College in New York.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I&#8217;m running my private workshops in fiction here in Westport, CT. Live nearby? I have spots open for an upcoming Tuesday evening class!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been reviewing various TV shows for the wonderful Previously.TV site. Most recently: the final seasons of <em>True Blood<\/em> and <em>Boardwalk Empire\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0the first seasons of <em>Outlander<\/em> and <em>The Leftovers. <\/em>You can find all my Previously.TV writing collected <a href=\"previously.tv\/author\/matt-debenham\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m also finishing up my second story collection, <em>Fan Fiction<\/em>, which is\u00a0thematically linked around the imagined lives of the famous and infamous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Editing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the summer, I edited not one but two YA novels, as well as chapters from a horror novel-in-progress. Have a project you&#8217;d like me to look at? Hit me up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/coaching\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>. (Note: easy form at the bottom.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Podcasting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What Are You Reading? is still on its end-of-summer\u00a0hiatus right now, but we had a fantastic run of guests right through most of August, including YA superstar Danielle Paige, current author\/former Onion editor Joe Randazzo, and fascinating sociologist Dr. Rachael Woldoff. You can catch up with those <a href=\"http:\/\/whatareyoureading.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>, before I start the show up again for the Fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Churching<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We own a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/caissie27\/church\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">church<\/span><\/a> up in Prince Edward Island, aka &#8220;The Gentle Island&#8221; of Canada. (Versus those French brutes on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saint Pierre and Miquelon<\/span><\/a>, I guess.) This summer we made it up there twice (it&#8217;s a 12-hour ride each way).<\/li>\n<li>Oh, also, we bought bikes for all four of us via online classifieds, and there was something wrong with every one of them. But hey, we biked!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Othering<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember I said I was going to get busier? I&#8217;m launching a new specialty food blog and related food business, as soon as I receive my bakery license from the state of Connecticut. That&#8217;s all I can say for now, so I&#8217;ll just let the words &#8220;bakery license&#8221; wash over you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There you go! All caught up. Oh &#8212; and I finally got a new record player to go with the scores of records I&#8217;ve amassed over the years. I post these on Instagram under the hashtag #LPaday, so find me there under &#8220;debengram&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;instaham&#8221; was taken &#8212; if you&#8217;d like to see what I&#8217;ve been listening to. (Spoiler: mostly &#8217;70s stoners.) Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll post something writing-related here soon. I was kind of marveling at the super-odd structure of <em>Sixteen Candles<\/em> recently&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1809\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fwhere-you-been%2F&amp;text=Where%20You%20Been&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fwhere-you-been%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>Teaching, writing, editing, baking &#8212; that&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on lately. An update. (Baking?!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[89,88,90,102],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-updates","tag-classes","tag-editing","tag-teaching-2","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}