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Amazon is now listing Unexpectedly, Milo, my second novel, which will be released on August 3 next year. This release date was actually news to me, but I assume the…
Amazon is now listing Unexpectedly, Milo, my second novel, which will be released on August 3 next year. This release date was actually news to me, but I assume the…
Chicken Shack, the working title of the book I am writing, features a combination funeral home and fried chicken restaurant. The idea came to me while driving through my hometown…
Last month, Nathan Bransford wrote a post centering on five lessons he learned about writing from watching reality television. It’s an amusing and insightful piece, and I thought his first…
In January of this year, I established a list of twelve New Year’s resolutions. At the end of each month, I report on my progress to hold myself accountable. 1.…
A couple of years ago, I wrote about my distrust of flowery, ostentatious names and any name that attempts to make something sound more cosmopolitan or international than it actually…
Blogger Wendy Morris of Well-Mannered Frivolity recently wrote a post about Something Missing, which I thought was interesting and unique. Wendy’s politics and mine are like oil and water, but…
Book maven, Twitter fiend, and podcaster extraordinaire Ann Kingman directed me to this photo on the website of the Northshire Bookstore in Vermont. The subject of her email: Something Missing…
Over the last few days, I find myself constantly drifting back to WikiLeaks' recent release of more than half a million pager intercepts from September 11, 2001. Since text pagers…
News of a possible sequel to The Shining is big, but I think The Guardian has buried the lead. Almost as an afterthought, writer Alison Flood mentions that King has…