I’m attending the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend, which should be fun. I’m going to be quite busy while I’m there, so for anyone going, here’s where you can find me over the weekend. Outrageous ActionPanel / Sat 11:30 AM – […]
In true iceberg style, there’s been a lot of activity under surface with all things related to my writing. The first piece of good news I can mention is that my short story, THE TASKMASTERS, is being adapted for the stage. The […]
I’m fading…kind of. I received a very sweet letter from one of my publishers last week. I’d ghost written a book for them a few years ago. They got in touch to tell me that they were remaindering the remaining print run […]
I want to live in a town like Alice’s. “Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”~Alice Walker
For a borderline spaz such as yours truly, the US road systems are a godsend. There’s a logic behind them all that makes it easy for a stranger like me to navigate—with the exception being freeway on and off ramps. This is […]
From time to time someone will take me to task over my characters—usually my protagonists. The usual complaint is over my hero’s “goodness.” The remarks usually center on, “You know, if your main guy had done the right thing in the beginning, […]
This sums up my world view. “The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”~Janeane Garofalo
Lowlifes centers on a murder in the homeless community. As I wrote the story, it could have been easy to show the homeless in stereotypical terms as people lower down on the totem pole than the rest of society. I made it […]
I’m happy to say that readers have been finding my eBooks from all quarters. Nook readers have been discovering my books of late. Two titles Nooksters have yet to find are ROAD RASH and THE SCRUBS, which are two of my darker […]
This one seems topical…some seventy years after it was said. ‘If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.’~John Maynard Keynes