2 Writing Exercises To Help You Through The Times We Are Living In
I'm not a medical professional. I don't want to give advice on how to sanitize your house or what to do if you get sick (other than call your doctor).…
3 Things I Have Learned (And 1 Thing My Cat Has Learned) About Writing in 2020
We’re just over three weeks into the new year and the world has already learned so much since the ball dropped. Along with learning even more details about the dumpster…
The Future: More Books, More Places to Submit Your Writing.
Here are just a couple changes I'm making to my blog. I will continue my 52 MOVIES FROM 52 COUNTRIES project to the very end but going forward I will…
8 1/2 Things I Learned at THRILLERFEST XIII
I attended THRILLERFEST XIII this past week, an annual writers' conference held in New York City that specializes in (wait for it) thrillers. Overall, this was a fantastic experience, one…
INFINITY WAR: Can we please talk about that ending?
(This should go without saying but the following contains major spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.) In early 2015, I realized that if I watched one Marvel movie every other month…
If you didn’t attend MARCH FOR OUR LIVES, go to the next march.
My wife and I attended March For Our Lives in DC this past Saturday. It was exciting, moving, exhilarating, powerful, exhausting and a thousand other adjectives. Apparently A LOT…
The Cat Odyssey
What follows is the true story of my attempt to reunite a cat with his owners, an epic quest that rivals The Odyssey, Gilgamesh and (at times) Dante’s Inferno.…
12 Strategies to Find Time To Write Your Novel
Since we’ve nearly reached May and summer isn’t that far off (a time when our schedules fill up with cookouts, road trips and family obligations) I thought I would write…
So I Quit My Job at an Investment Company to Become a Novelist
JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND…. Between December 2009 and September 2016, I worked at T. Rowe Price, an asset management firm located in the Baltimore area. I joined…