News from the author of Nascent Constellation
The short play, My People, has been selected to be performed at DramaRama15 in New Orleans, April 19, 2008. You can download the poster files here.
Elegy for Rob Matson, the young man in the photo at the bottom of this page, is online here.
The New Miracles Journal web site is now online. The Miracles Journal is a reformatted edition of the public domain version of A Course In Miracles. It is available now as a digital file. In addition, development of the Workbook in the journal format is in progress.
About Nascent Constellation
The stories contained in Nascent Constellation have their start in the time I lived in Provincetown, MA. While working on a manuscript for a novel, I wrote a series of short stories, not to mention a 200 page web site called Provincetowndaily.com. The stories were originally out-takes from a work in progress, but from these a trilogy formed. I named the collection Nascent Constellation.
I've read or told these stories at open mics from Massachussetts to Florida, North Carolina, and New Orleans. This is the first time I've put them in print. The stories are about friendships, kindness, and grace. I have been blessed. My life is rich with these experiences, and now, I share them with you.
The essay, John, a tribute to John F. Kennedy, Jr., is back online.
In March, 2007, I won my first writing grant, the KARES grant from New Orleans Literary Institute.
Photos I took at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival are now online.
June, 2007, I performed the second part of In Heaven There Are No Rules for a delightful audience at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans.
Peter Demers
Ninth Ward New Orleans volunteer holding the whole Nascent Constellation in his hands.
"Funny and personal," Sue Miller, author of The Good Mother, at Dire Reader, Cambridge, MA, 2003, first reading of Nascent Constellation.
You can purchase the two limitied edition publications with Google Checkout or Paypal. UPDATE: The limited print edition is sold out. They are now available as digital editions (PDF) from the store at Fromoutoftheblue.com - Nascent Constellation and My People, digital edition - ebooks