About Paul Blumer
hey I'm Paul:
I didn't come out as a writer until college... but looking back it's clear I was born this way. I write about the ​finer things in life—craft cocktails, business, travel—and also the nittier grittier; through fiction, short & long.
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quotes & praise:
brief bio in 3rd person:
Paul Blumer is a writer in Albuquerque, NM. He cut his public writing teeth long ago at the Michigan Daily (Go Blue!)...before realizing Fiction was a deeper key to Truth.
Since then he’s stacked up writing accolades & experiences both official and informal—including an MFA from CCA in SF; and a popular cocktail column for Richmond Magazine (where he was a People's Choice award-winning bartender).
He’s the author of Dealer's Choice and numerous articles & short stories.
a bio more personal:
I wasn’t exactly born writing…but my first manuscript was a lengthy troop report for a ferocious Lego battle—typed up one afternoon on my grandma's old plug-in Smith Corona from her career as a law secretary.
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Leaving a typewriter unlocked in a closet where a curious kid can find it is something like the exact opposite of a loaded gun…
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But the impact can be equally life-changing & irreversible—and it blew open my mind and reshaped my life forever, into a funnel for fueling the stories & words.
a few of my favorite things...
Author:
Cormac McCarthy, hands down. Then in no particular order: Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Ray Bradbury, Ken Kesey, Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, John Steinbeck, Hunter S Thompson, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman, Tom Wolfe…and of course Brian Jacques who so generously fed the furnace of my tween imagination.
Band:
Tool, no question. Followed by anything else thoughtful, narrative, and guitar heavy.
Cocktail:
Depends on the season...Tom Collins...Daiquiri/Caipirinha...Old Fashioned...Manhattan (just to name four).
Decadence:
Dark chocolate with red wine. Can't stop, won't stop...
Exercise:
Rock climbing, jumprope, mountain biking, long strolls lost in thought.
Food:
If I had to eat just one thing for the rest of my days, I reckon I’d choose sushi.
God:
Hephaestus at the forge; god of artisans, smiths, and sculptors of story. But I usually lean more omnitheistic...
Habit:
My whole writing day.