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Legally Blind – The Look

There’s this look I get from people time to time when I go out. It’s not just a look, as in mild curiosity, but The Look, something wholly unique to those of us with truly messed-up bodies. It’s the Look that says, “Oh God, how weird is this guy? What do I have to deal with here?”

I get it most frequently from single mothers. That’s not exactly a demographic I deal with on a regular basis, but I do see them from time to time in stores, at the spa where I swim, or walking down the street, as y...

On Failure

I’m going to talk about some stuff that’s going to sound like I’m cutting myself down, but I think this is important, especially if you’re considering writing.

At a vendor sale in Clancy, Montana the other day, an older gentleman stopped by, not so much interested in my books as he was talking about his own desire to collect his memoirs of his time as a soldier abroad and as a coroner. It sounded like he was off on the right foot – he was writing down memories as short stories, and wasn’t en...

Fundamental Obsession is available now!

Heya folks! My newest novel Fundamental Obsession is available now. A story about friendship, guilt, loss, and healing, it’s a complex novel with a feel-good romance at its core. If you enjoyed my previous novels Forever and Farewell and A Shot at Us, I think you’ll find a lot to love here.[image error]

Give it a look here on Amazon! It’s just $4.99 on Kindle, or free through Kindle Unlimited. Paperback versions won’t be available for some time yet, but I’m hopeful I’ll have them done by July-ish.

And that’s a wrap on Fundamental Obsession

Friday, I finished the first draft of Fundamental Obsession, my passion project of 2019. It’s a quiet, low-key story about the death of a man driven to obsession over a pen-and-paper role-playing game, and the people left in his wake after he passes away in a terrible car wreck. As his ex-wife and his best friend try to fight their feelings of guilt over each having given up on their friend, a decade-long attraction might finally unite them again.

Okay, I really need to work on that elevator...

What’s on the horizon?

I promised myself back when Forever and Farewell was released in 2017 that I’d allow myself one passion project a year. For 2018, that was A Shot at Us, my little take on It’s a Wonderful Life (and yes, it did launch in 2019, but it was finished in 2018). For 2019, I had such a strong idea a couple weeks ago that I had to pursue it immediately. It’s the sort of story that grabs a writer’s mind and doesn’t want to let go.

That novel is going to be titled Fundamental Obsession. I right now I th...

A Shot at Us is out now!

A bit belated here on the website, but my latest novel A Shot at Us is available now on Amazon for just $4.99. A love story based on It’s a Wonderful Life, this novel centers around the hardships of Gwendolyn and Malcolm Irving, loving spouses and parents having a hard time making ends meet in a fictional city in eastern Montana.

[image error]Suffering from health problems all her adult life, Gwen feels like she’s become a drain on her family, both financially and emotionally. One night shortly before Chr...

Out-of-the-moment moments

Certain things will throw me completely out of whack when I’m watching a TV show or a movie. Blatantly empty coffee cups, weightless doors, the bland white light in windows that passes for the outdoors or sunshine, and phone conversations where the pauses are too short for a real response are the biggest ones off the top of my head.   These types of little things happen in writing too, and I’m certainly not immune. Looking back, from Ghost at His Back alone, I can think of two plot conve...

The first chapter of A Shot at Us

Back in October I decided I’d try to write my mom a novel in time for her Christmas present. She’s been the biggest fan of my romance novel Forever and Farewell, so I wanted to write something along those lines. I had a plan early this year for a novel inspired by It’s a Wonderful Life, and decided now was the perfect time to dust that idea off and polish it up. Thankfully, I was able to finish the novel, clean it up some, and deliver it to my mom Christmas morning. I plan on releasing A Shot...

Now is the winter of my discontent

There are a few quotes from Shakespeare that people tend to misunderstand, the most egregious of which is probably “star-crossed lovers,” which actually means lovers whose relationship is doomed to failure or ended in tragedy. The second, “now is the winter of our discontent,” is often used to mean that things can’t get worse, when in fact it’s a parallel of our more commonly-used saying “the night is always darkest just before dawn,” meaning that things will get better. It’s hopeful, though...

He Who Controls the Pumpkin Spice Controls the World

Folks, there’s a war on our beloved holiday. Tinpot dict-haters are rising up and demanding we, the faithful, hate what they hate, despise what they despise. They’ll use subjective things like “science” and “facts” to point out that our great holiday love isn’t real, that it’s all artificial nonsense put forward by marketing execs looking to make a buck off the suckers. They sit upon their thrones of lies and slander and spew forth so much vitriol it’s hard to keep the faith. The faith…

…in p...