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All Things Writing: interview

With Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma’s Half-eaten Pie of Despair now available for pre-order (at your favorite bookseller), the publicity train has fired up and left the station.

My first stop was a very enjoyable interview by Bryan Nowak for his podcast All Things Writing. Besides running a successful podcast, Bryan is amazing writer of science fiction, mystery, and horror. Learn more about Bryan here.

We talked about world building, the craft of writing, my books new and pr...

Cover Reveal Time!!!!

Wow, I’ve been sitting on this one. Very pleased to present the cover for Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma’s Half-eaten Pie of Despair, coming out Halloween 2023.

Pre-orders for print and e-book available on Amazon as well as most booksellers.

ARCs and press kits are available for book reviewers and book bloggers. Leave a comment below and we’ll set it up.

Book Description:

The stars of a beloved series of children’s books, the clever Research Randy and his supernaturall...

Inspiration for Creative Writers

In the 2023 edition of The Writer’s Path, 8 more alumni of Full Sail University’s writing programs share their paths from graduation to success in their own words, without skipping over the adversity that stood in the way of their goals. Full of inspiration and motivation, The Writer’s Path proves that everyone’s journey to success is different… and seldom easy. Featuring essays from Gonzalo Ravelo, Khadijah Iman, Justin Anderson, Zach Perilstein, Marelize Roets, Francisco Ruestra, Keren Gre...

Research Randy Release Date Revealed

BREAKING NEWS!

FILE UNDER: NO LONGER THEORETICAL

It’s as real as my regular bouts of existential dread…Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma’s Half-eaten Pie of Despair will be released upon the world on Halloween 2023. Finally, when people ask me when the next book is coming out, I have a legit answer. In the relatively near future expect a cover reveal, pre-order link, reviews, interviews, podcast appearance, and all manner of obnoxious promotion (self and assisted).

WHOOOOOOOOOO...

Contract Signed! New Tom Lucas weirdness coming your way soon!

I’m pleased to announce that I have signed a contract with Beating Windward Press for my upcoming book:

Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma’s Half-eaten Pie of Despair

The stars of a beloved series of children’s books, the clever Research Randy and his supernaturally sensitive sister Charlie, solved many cases in the idyllic coastal town of Serenity Bay to the delight of many readers over the last 30 years.

But now, suddenly transported to the creepy hamlet of Effingmouth, they fi...

New book available!

Hello all,

It’s been a while. Hope you are doing all right considering this strip-mall apocalypse of ours seems never-ending. I hope you are working, healthy (and the same to you and yours). I’ve been busy…I am back in school working on an Ed.D. and putting final edits in for a novella I will have out some time next year! For now, just a small victory for my writing: I snuck my way into the TOC of Ghost Parachute: 105 Flash Fiction Stories. Yep, 105 stories are in this collection, so there is...

Big plans for Halloween.

Hey Folks,

The fine publishers of Ghost Parachute broke my small drought by adding my fun satirical spin on 2020. It’s a flash fiction all about MONSTERS!!!!!

Read it here.

Earlier this year I wrote about having a hard time getting motivated to write. I am still struggling with that a bit, but I have also entered a professional doctorate program, so I have been to the gills with homework. Good, but UGH.

Still trying to chip away at the novel, bit by bit. Hope you are moving forwa...

I’m Plagued Out, Man.

Photo by Kuma Kum on Unsplash

It’s been a while since we talked.

How are you? Seriously, how are you?

Are you working?

Are you safe?

Healthy?

How are your friends and family?

I’ve been damn lucky.

My wife and I are working and have everything we need to get through this crass, banal dystopia we are all struggling to get through. Something I have tried to do, and to a relative level of success, is remember that there are so many out there trapped in dangerous situations and that I have nothing to...

Here’s 30 Seconds of Writer Inspiration If You Need It.

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The world is on fire and fevered egos threaten the utter collapse of civilization. I find each day more difficult to de-toxify than the last. Maybe if we’re lucky, a heretofore unknown meteor will smash into the earth and hasten our inevitable extinction.

Oh, and I got another rejection on my novella.

A bit of a tough morning but this isn’t a pity post.

Far from it. Whenever I get a rejection, I give myself a couple of hours to feel disappointed and then I get back to it. Whether it’s a yes...

Writing a Screenplay: How to Make Your Ideas a Reality

Ideas are cheap. If you are a creative, you should have a deep, deep well of ideas to draw from at any given moment. Ideas pop up while you’re stuck in traffic, while doing yard work, or when having an existential crisis at 3am on a Tuesday morning (not that I would know anything about that). Your results may very.

IMO, It’s really about the execution. How do you take an idea for a story and turn it into something viable, something that will speak to people in a meaningful way?

Or perhaps mor...