Getting Down to the Heavy Work

Thanks to everyone who has taken an interest in my collection of short stories Or Something Like That. Very cool. I've been sending the book out for review and have appreciated all of your emails, notes and kind words. I owe you beautiful people some beer!


Friday, on my way home, I got a phone call saying that I wouldn't be needed back at work until the following Thursday. Some components being shipped from overseas, delayed in transit.

Fucking sweet.

That means I get three work days to dedicate to editing my new novel, Patient. It's one thing to come home after work and mess around with some edits for an hour or two before I've got to cook dinner. Actually having an entire block of eight hours plus strung together for multiple days is a godsend.

It makes me wonder why everybody on unemployment is writing a novel right now. I know, when I was unemployed in 2007, I had a swell time getting paid to write my novel Tollbooth.

That's my other news, Tollbooth is being professionally edited and will finally be released in the winter. So, I'm excited about that.

Tollbooth is a novel about guy who is driven crazy from the daily torture of collecting rolls in a NJ parkway tollbooth. He has somewhat of a mental snap and starts chasing around a young college girl, becomes involved with an anarchistic kid who has strange plots and motives.

This fall will be beautiful.

Or Something Like That