Here’s all I know about working in sales: Always Be Closing. That might just be something from a movie, come to think of it. Do actual salesmen say that? It’s good advice, though. Maybe not to salesmen. My advice to … Continue reading
This is a plea to those who recommended or enjoyed the The Dark Is Rising sequence. Right now, I’m very near to tapping out. I’m trying. I get that these were written for a younger audience. Younger, even, than I realized … Continue reading
I go to bed certain my mom will forget to brine the turkey. When the call comes at 7:30 a.m. the next morning, I’m already awake, having driven Erin to the airport an hour before. She says, “I really screwed … Continue reading
I had to go back to see when I’d hit my 200th post. It took a while, because it’s been two years. Two years for a hundred posts. Not an awe inspiring rate. When you consider that almost half of … Continue reading
Another day month, another tanka. Your shirt drifts up and you catch sunset on your skin. I say something else, as if I don’t notice this is a moment that will pass.
The story starts on Thanksgiving. Any Thanksgiving, it doesn’t matter. The family sits down – there are a lot of us, enough that we have to push the kitchen and dining room tables together – and the food gets set … Continue reading
The apocalyptic month of October, which stretched its Cthuluian tentacles far into November, is finally over. That’s right, friends. The Cultural Trust’s new website is live! Seriously, check it out! One thing that’s no fun about being a programmer is … Continue reading
You can read Part 1 here. The first time I saw it, I wasn’t interested. The cover caught my attention, so I pulled it off the shelf and flipped it over. Something about the description put me off, though I … Continue reading
Ten years ago, I would have laughed if you’d told me I’d be writing young adult novels. I barely read young adult novels when I was a young adult. Other than reading seemingly every single Three Investigators book, A Wrinkle in Time, that Tripod trilogy … Continue reading
To everyone who read, commented on, or passed along word of the first two chapters of Broken Magic (which you can find here and here): Thank you. I don’t break out the bold lightly. I’m an italics sort of guy. The … Continue reading
