Tag Archive: #fiction

If you are in the US, this is Thanksgiving weekend and I imagine you are spending time with family and enjoying some tasty leftovers. And even if you are not in the US, I hope you are taking time to nourish yourself in this crazy world with friends, family, and good food (and, ye...

“Hello, Elizabeth,” I said as you dropped the bag of groceries you had just come in with. I watched as broken eggs mixed with spilled orange juice. You looked tired, as if you hadn’t been sleeping much.

The breaker rolled past the window next to me, a sandy, foamy blur; I thought I could make out a jellyfish being pressed against the glass. It was outlined there for a moment and then gone. All that motion and chaos just inches away from me made me nervous.

Jack looked small for his age, which was fine by him. Looking like he was ten when he was twelve was a competitive advantage. He had more experience, he knew more. When you’re competing for scraps from tourists, or the proceeds of an occasional lift, you took what you could get....

(Excerpt) The ringing of the phone is like a dentist’s drill to my sodden consciousness. I groan, realizing I hadn’t managed to get undressed when I tumbled into bed. Again. I feel for my cell phone on the nightstand, my hand connecting with a half-eaten microwave burrito be...

This whole free thing is a “thank you” to all of you that follow along here or on facebook or twitter.

Kind of. It is Book 3 in the series and features Jesus, the secondary character from Shuffled Off and To Be a Fool. It also overlaps with the events of To Be a Fool and follows Jesus...

It's a brand new year, and I have a lot in the writing pipeline. The last few years have been pretty thin on releases and I am going to remedy that this year. So, to that end, I am planning to do a monthly update on all things me and writing.

Wow, there is a lot to say about this one, but I'll keep it brief up here an expand down below.: This is the 3rd "A Ghost's Memoir" book, long sidelined by personal challenges. Unlike book 1 and 2, this is Jesus's story and follows him from when he leaves Tucson in Read More

Enter Walter and Emily. These two have been on my mind for a long time, back when I was writing To Be a Fool. For those of you with a copy, they make a cameo in Transmission #44. Walter was a dentist and an out of work actor before that and has become something of a dete...

And as I've been doing this for a while, I've met some of these folks and gotten to know them. In 2012 and against this year I went to the Superstars Writing Seminar where a few hundred of us gather, learn, talk, and play. But more impo...

Well, partially here. The ebook is out and the print book will be coming soon (I'm taking preorders for it now). This book begins right where Shuffled Off ends, furthering the adventures of JJ Lynch, Jesus, and Banquo in the afterlife. He...

In the first installment of this series, I talked about the formula for this novel, or really for any novel. Now I will talk about inspiration. Writing a novel is a long process, and as I writer, I find there has to be...

In this installment I talk about the formula for how I wrote this novel. A behind-the-scenes look at the parts that made up the whole. Before we get started, here's the blurb for the book, so you know what it is about:

First off, here's the back cover blurb: What happens when we die? Viki Dobos knows. Her job is to help people talk to their dearly departed. She draws the deceased, and they come to life on the page… briefly. When a rich Russian man hires her and whisks her away to Hawaii, everyt...

It's been a long time since I've had any writing news to report. Not that I haven't been writing, I have. And writing a lot. I just haven't gotten anything new out the door. Much is coming next year, though (see below).

This project is a pretty significant departure from Shuffled Off: A Ghost's Memoir so part of me thinks I owe you all an explanation. There are no ghosts in sight. There's no deep examination of the human grieving process. What's there is acti...

It's been a long time since I have blogged. Life has been busy, and I have saved most of my writing energy for writing (there is a lot in the pipeline, which I am very excited about). But, in the last few months, I have released three novelettes. A novelette is longer than a shor...