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  • The Trickster’s Lament preview #2

    Another glimpse of my novel-in-progress. Don’t you just hate it when a plan falls apart? A simple museum heist has gone completely off the rails for Hermes. The trickster god better think fast. — I didn’t wait for more gunfire and sprinted out of their line of sight into a nearby gift shop. I vaulted… Read more

  • The Trickster’s Lament preview

    Yes, indeed, I have been working on my second book all this time! And now that it is nearing completion, I’m happy to share a sneak peak of The Trickster’s Lament, continuation of the Greek god Hermes’ adventures in the modern world and sequel to A God Walks Up to the Bar. — In my… Read more

  • Putting Stories into the World and Learning to Let Them Go

    Stories are precious things, especially to those who write them. We write stories for all sorts of reasons: to tell a message, to work through a grief or hardship, as a gift for friends and family, or simply for the sake of doing so. Regardless of why, stories are very personal things. And we all… Read more

  • Persist

    Persist. Persistence is needed in life. Get out of bed, go to work, clean the house. Balance your checkbook, cook dinner, take your kids to sports practice. Every day, there is the routine. Keep at it. Always keep at it, even when you’re screaming inside. Because you know what? Today you feel rotten, tomorrow you… Read more

  • The Curious Art of NOT Writing the Story

    I’m always thinking about writing and how to describe it to people who don’t write. It’s something that is both simple and complex to describe, because like most kinds of art, writing refuses to be boxed into simple definitions. Putting words on paper is what writing involves, but it is not what writing is. One… Read more

  • The Sound of Inspiration

    What would your life be like without music? A life without music would be dull, that’s easy enough to say. But for me, it would also be a great deal more difficult to write anything noteworthy. It is my belief that music is the purest expression of emotions and feelings available to humankind, just as… Read more