SHELF LIFE: Desert Bound

I’m one of the guest speakers at the WriteNow! Conference in Phoenix, Arizona at the end of the week.  Speakers include Sara Paretsky, Hilary Davidson, Jenny Milchman, Michael Koryta, Deb Ledford, Terri Bischoff, and actress, Christina Cox. I’ll be interviewing Sara and […]

SHELF LIFE: Using Our Words

As a man of letters, I take a keen interest in words, especially new ones.  Recently, the word SELFIE got accepted into the dictionary, which pissed me off for a couple of reasons.  First, I hate ‘selfie’ photographs. I can see your […]

Shelf Life: Soundtrack

I had some music playing while I was writing the other week and a song came on and I thought that song perfectly sums up my books. Then I got to thinking, people talk about the soundtrack to their lives, then there […]