tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100064832024-03-23T10:51:26.904-07:00OPEN TRENCHPaying Attention, with Don CummingsDon Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.comBlogger2346125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-13256202997169880402024-02-28T15:45:00.000-08:002024-02-28T16:08:25.398-08:00BioDON CUMMINGS is known for his fearless and humorous writing in books, essays, theatre and film. His love-sex-and-health memoir, Bent But Not Broken, is published by Heliotrope Books. It received fine praise from Kirkus Reviews. Cummings’ skills as a writer are apparent from the beginning. His prose is effortlessly clever, finding the entertaining medium between lyricism and sass.&Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-49149194591106573332022-05-16T23:54:00.000-07:002022-05-16T23:54:44.084-07:00The Water Tribe Published by Original Works and MoreHello Friends,Working with such a talented creative team, I'm a lucky playwright. The Water Tribe has been published by Original Works and is ready for pre-order purchases. Thank you to Jason Goldberg and the whole Original Works team! It's a wonderful company and their catalogue is extensively cool. Everyone loves to read plays, right? And then put them up on their Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-84215814365384392482021-05-11T01:47:00.006-07:002021-05-11T02:44:21.671-07:00The WinnerBack to: Don Cummings.netBack to: The Archive Post Road Magazine Issue #25The WinnerDon CummingsCharacters:Lydia Jeffrey's WifeJeffrey Lydia's HusbandMatilda Their ServantPlace: A remote building on the edge of North AmericaTime: The year 2309 (A regal woman, Lydia, is dressed in an evening gown. Not Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-46153429197928669882021-05-11T01:25:00.001-07:002021-05-11T02:59:20.349-07:00Tufts MagazineBack to: Don Cummings.net Back to: Don Cummings.netDon Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-89990410611861791652020-08-29T16:38:00.003-07:002020-08-29T16:44:19.965-07:00PPE for Kentucky Women!Hi Friends! Raising funds for PPE for the Kentucky Prison for Women in Shelby County along with a great group of writers and musicians. These human beings behind bars are getting ill due to lack-of-funds-and-political-will and it's time to give them a hand! Reading from BENT BUT NOT BROKEN, Sunday, August 30 at 8PM EDT. (5PM PDT). Join us and watch and donate, please. The article: Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-9940456464916112822020-08-26T23:45:00.002-07:002020-08-27T14:15:31.767-07:00And The Scenies Go To... Congratulations to Hannah Prichard and Christopher Reiling for their work in The Water Tribe!They each garnered a SCENIE for outstanding performances, the award given by Stage Scene LA under the intelligent and discerning eye of one of Los Angeles' great reviewers: Steven Stanley.As soon as I worked with Hannah and Christopher in a workshop production of my play, I knew they were the ones Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-76935368659664572402020-06-09T17:05:00.001-07:002020-06-09T17:31:20.297-07:00Bent But Not Broken Audio Book SampleHello Friends,
If you would like to enjoy an audiobook sample of Bent But Not Broken, here's Chapter 1!
Click
The book has been helping men, one penis at a time, and everyone else, just because, well, you know how universal this theme is: Life Can Be Difficult.
The audiobook can be purchased on Amazon and wherever else audiobooks are sold. Of course, you can read the book, too.
As Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-74209276400578880302020-03-24T18:25:00.003-07:002022-07-12T01:14:59.665-07:00APPENDIX to BENT BUT NOT BROKEN
APPENDIX to Bent But Not Broken
THE TREATMENT SCHEDULE
Don Goes to Town
YEAR 1
February/March Noticed a penis problem
July 26 First visit to Dr. Hellman. (Not real name.) Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-45802485966556556092020-02-11T16:17:00.002-08:002020-02-11T16:17:52.229-08:00The Water Tribe Extended through February 16
Hello Friends,Just three more performances of The Water Tribe. Get your TIX soon on the night/day of your choice. Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th @ 8 and Sunday the 16th @ 2. It runs 90 minutes. There's a discount code, so send me a message if you'd like that.The actors are out-of-control brave and I'm so proud of them, our director, Tricia Small, and Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-45309598228327282402019-12-11T02:22:00.000-08:002019-12-11T02:24:44.067-08:00Bent AudioBook, The Water Tribe, & Zombies
Read About them here.
Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-39923236349162450432019-11-18T23:29:00.001-08:002019-11-18T23:38:02.765-08:00Authors in the Afternoon Play You Don't Know My Life!Now, from Dennis Hensley's famous podcast, Dennis Anyone?
Listen to the podcast: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/11017433
Buy the Game: www.youdontknowmylife.com
(It's fun and funny and it will get you away from your screen for a while, to hang out with your friends.)
And sure!, buy all four of the books below.
And now, the word from Dennis Hensley:
Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-16394045412592287972019-11-12T00:26:00.001-08:002019-11-12T00:34:16.401-08:00A Body of Work: The Tour
Hello Friends.
On my book tour for Bent But Not Broken, I was lucky to have a reading in Minneapolis sponsored by the incredible literary magazine Rain Taxi. (I urge you to subscribe. It's smart stuff. Cool stuff. The editors, unlike the telephone call to Ukraine, are perfect.)
And now, published in Rain Taxi, is a piece I wrote: A Body of Work: The Tour. If I could write a whole Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-11903496676891237382019-10-30T00:09:00.000-07:002019-10-30T00:11:22.437-07:00Happy Zombie Apocalypse, Love, Los AngelesDear Friends,
If you are looking for something ghoulish to do this Halloween season, why not read about how Zombies are taking over Los Angeles?
Screenplay by Don Cummings and Bradford Brillowski.
Illustrations by Peter Landau.
Follow us on Instagram @OhtheHorrorLA
OhTheHorrorLA on Instagram
And you can read the whole thing we have so far (Peter has illustrated up to page 30 of the Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-3039952642024016302019-10-16T00:31:00.000-07:002019-10-16T01:02:45.931-07:00Let's Keep Small Los Angeles Theaters Going
Let's get right to it! This is an Ask to keep small theaters alive in Los Angeles. I am committed to raising $5000 for Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles. You can simply click This Link and dive right in! But maybe you want to read my spiel/plea below. Please help. $2 would be easy, right? That's always a choice.
Thank you. :)
And Now This:
Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-60789851918761396902019-07-30T00:40:00.002-07:002019-07-30T00:49:07.101-07:00Advocate: How Does a Gay Man Deal With A Disfiguring Penis Condition?
READ
Thank you Diane Anderson-Minshall and Brooklyn Social Media.
Subscribe to The Advocate.
Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-42455741703090005862019-07-30T00:06:00.000-07:002019-07-30T08:11:57.158-07:00ListopiaHello Friends,
If you are a Goodreads member on Amazon, perhaps you would like to help me to help men with their troubles. And for your time, I will give you a gift of Tolstoy at the end of it all.
The internet, in all its open beauty, needs to be organized. So Goodreads has Listopia to organize its many books so if, say, you like cookbooks about meat and fish, there is a list on Listopia Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-53281896545834145642019-05-30T01:14:00.000-07:002019-05-30T01:57:11.905-07:00The Blog Tour, The Teddy Smith Show & The Last BookstoreHello friends,
Here we are: A Memoir, A radio interview, some more reviews, and how the World Experiences this kind of thing.
Thank you, Trish Collins, for setting up a Blog Tour for Bent But Not Broken. The reviews are lovely and the experience was enjoyable.
And thank you, Teddy Smith, fellow Suffern High School Alum, for the radio interview on WPAT 930AM Radio that led to this:
Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-54704800908667592712019-05-21T01:23:00.000-07:002019-05-21T01:23:01.661-07:00Book Clubs Are Forever
Spoiler alert for those who have not yet read Bent But Not Broken.
Pause.
Leave if you must.
Don't keep reading if you don't want to know what happens to my relationship with Adam.
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I end up marrying him.
But I didn't just marry a man, I married his book club. It's called Adam's Book Club, and I believe it has been going on, uninterrupted, for 27 years. I was in it for a while...but IDon Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-72857439343354709972019-05-14T02:36:00.000-07:002019-05-14T18:59:43.148-07:00Book Soup: All the Ingredients You Need
Thank you, Book Soup, for hosting our event: TMI: Brutal Honesty, Embarrassing Transgressions and Why We Do This.
Vanessa McGrady read from her brilliant memoir, Rock Needs River, A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption.
Royal Young hosted! Thank you Royal. You need to read his fantastic memoir, Fame Shark.
And there I was, too, with Bent But Not Broken.
With an intro by Book Soup's very Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-82499798132105597112019-05-06T21:19:00.000-07:002019-05-06T21:26:14.702-07:00Chaucer's Bookstore, Santa Barbara, What a Treat--Book Soup, West Hollywood, Friday, May 10
Thanks to my wonderful publicists, Louise Crawford and Linda Quigley at Brooklyn Social Media, for setting it up, the gracious, talented writer, Mary Hershey, who runs the events and more at Chaucer's, and the hosting superpowers of Vibeke & Joe Weiland and Colleen & Earl Lynch, we all had an enjoyable evening of love, laughter, hope and great questions.
Some pics below for you.
Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-79943530160215721802019-04-03T10:51:00.001-07:002019-04-03T23:21:47.313-07:00Bent But Not Broken Press ReleaseDon Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-21379669303539817842019-03-26T00:51:00.000-07:002019-03-26T00:51:27.766-07:00Book Tour and a Little Kirkus for You
Hello Friends, Readers, and people who ended up here by mistake,
Bent But Not Broken hits the road in April for a book tour. Where are we going?
New York, Minneapolis, Santa Barbara and West Hollywood
Please RSVP to any and all events below.
Purchase options here
(Do try to buy from a bookstore. Especially if you are coming to one of the bookstore events. Please.)
The Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-89924648450459288722019-03-21T00:50:00.003-07:002019-03-21T00:53:31.562-07:00Kirkus Review
All of it
Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-7242625022292116902019-03-19T02:09:00.000-07:002019-03-19T02:09:03.786-07:00Release, Buy, Review, and a Blown Manhole Cover
We had a great time at the Skylight Books Launch of Bent But Not Broken Friday night.
About 100 people were there. Okay, maybe 96.
Many books were sold, signed and spilled on.
Right after, as the cleaning up was in full force, there was an explosion and two seconds later the sound of a manhole cover clanging onto asphalt. A transformer blew out underground. All the lights went out on Vermont Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006483.post-16589103103200696222019-03-12T06:00:00.000-07:002019-03-12T06:00:14.248-07:00Launch and Release
Bent But Not Broken Releases this Friday, March 15.
All parties, options to purchase, press, you name it, can be found at doncummings.net.
The LA Launch party is at Skylight Books.
Thank you for all your support. Writing a book and then getting it published takes many years (at least for me). It has been an enjoyable ride. I am grateful. Now I would love people to take a Don Cummingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.com0