Write This Down

It has been two years now since I first experienced the symptoms that would later be diagnosed as a brain tumor.   And while I wouldn’t ...

I won't lie to you--for the past to years or so, my ability to write, and to create, has been severely diminished.  That's the prima...

Prior to my surgery last fall, I had continued writing but felt as though creatively, I had run dry.  I entered a publishing contest with mi...

In life we wear many different masks.  As children we wear various Halloween masks—I was mostly a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, though once ...

I don’t suppose I am a vain person in the conventional sense, though I do try to make sure I look decent (read: put together) when I leave ...

Our memories of childhood are often hazy, idealized, or altogether fictional—but the older I get, the more I appreciate these snapshots of ...

At the end of May 2014, I experienced two days of weirdness in which I could barely walk.  It was literally as though I had to mechanically...

Kentucky Summer will turn three years old next spring/summer, but the book is experiencing a bit of a second life thanks to a feature artic...

I was both elated and privileged to learn recently that my novel, Heart Trouble , would be featured in a newly released boxed set via Crimso...

It has been approximately two years since I published my first novel.  I’m too lazy to look for specific dates, but it was June 2012 when I...

At long last, Heart Trouble is available to order in paperback form.  To be honest, I cannot afford to buy a copy of my own novel, which s...

Regular readers of this blog will remember that I wrote a 72,000 word novel during the first twenty-one days of National Novel Writing Mont...

I’m never quite sure how to frame a blog that’s little more than a sales pitch, but I wanted to put it out there for anyone who didn’t kno...

Way back in July-August of this year, I tried my hand at writing a romance novel with elements of mystery and suspense thrown in.   The ...

I have embarked upon every author’s favorite task—editing.   Insert sarcasm here, please.   So far I have uncovered one continuity erro...

As of this writing, I have completed more than 45,000 words of this novel.   My standard operating practice involves no going back and edi...

Even though I’ve been slacking in the writing department lately, I decided to take the plunge and start my own Facebook fan page.   The link...

I feel a bit lazy these days.   Scratch that—very lazy.   I have been sending out more and more book queries, but aside from reading I hav...

I started writing this blog as I went through the editing process of my first novel—and while I worked on the second one—but it has always...

This has been a tough week.   I haven’t necessarily had one, overarching crises, but sometimes the little things add up and become one big...