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June 5, 2018
Peril Has Landed!
The big day has finally arrived! I feel like a kid at Christmas, no attention being paid to the fact that I’m over forty and it’s June. When I started writing Peril in the Old Country, I was writing for myself. Well, for myself and my wife, Shelly, who said she liked my first novel. […]
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January 2, 2018
Pre-Order Peril
Peril Awaits I’m thrilled to announce that Peril in the Old Country is available for pre-order from Black Spot Books! I’m still working with the insanely talented staff at BSB to get every last comma in place. I’d have done it while I was writing the thing, but there was a shortage of commas. I blame […]
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December 13, 2017
Write, Revise, Edit
The Wrong Way to Write a Novel When I first started writing The Winter Riddle, I’d been reading too much George R. R. Martin. I’d gotten ideas. I started without a plan, just a theme and a handful of characters. I wrote about a dozen chapters, completely out of sequence, from the perspectives of different characters that I […]
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November 9, 2016
The Winter Riddle Has Been Released
Well, it’s happened. I’ve written a novel, and today it officially went on sale. I am now a published author. Like all first-time authors, I am completely self-assured of my imminent success. Fame and fortune lurk excruciatingly nearby, waiting with baited breath to tackle me to the ground and rob me of my obscurity. Oh, […]
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October 15, 2016
What’s Going On?
How I hate that question. There’s all of this pressure to perform, and I can’t just lie. “I ate so many Triscuits while watching Netflix yesterday that I spoiled my appetite just enough to give dinner a miss, but I was still hungry, so I finished the box of Triscuits. And a season of Designing […]
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July 25, 2016
Dear People Who Lose Their Minds Over Sports
Good for you! You’ve proven to everyone around you that you love your sports team and cheap beer more than anyone else in your immediate proximity. On behalf of everyone foolish enough to believe that they shouldn’t have been interrupted by your woo-hoo-ing, you’ve certainly proven them wrong. Seriously, what were they thinking? Your team […]
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