Yesterday morning Kimmy and I jumped out of an airplane two miles above the ground.  (Fortunately we were both attached to people who know what they were doing.)The absolutely most…

 My cousin Geoffrey suggested this first line to me.  I wrote for five minutes.  This is what I got.  (If any of you have any more suggestions for prompts please…

While all of you were celebrating Memorial Day with barbeques and traffic jams, Kimmy, her family, my parents and I were hard at work cleaning the new house.I mowed a…

Last night I returned from the Backspace Writers' Conference in New York.   The conference seemed to be designed to break you down (Agents reviewed our queries and first two pages…

It's been excruciatingly too long since my last post.  Honestly, I don't even have an excuse.  Of course I've been busy, but who isn't busy?  I can't even remember what…

 I took a random sentence, used it as the first line in a story and wrote for five minutes. This is what I got.   Paul couldn’t resist shouting out…

“Pliny had never had any objections about defying emperors.”  Especially since most of the emperors in his house only ruled over rooms or cupboards.  While Pliny got dressed for school…

My good friend Jon Balog recently interviewed me concerning my novel Edge Country.Jon has written for Bmore Live, Punk Planet, The Sentimentalist, Jive, and romaexperience.com.  His very enthusiastic article for crunchable.net…

Tonight I began reading Les Miserable by Victor Hugo.  I am surprised by how quickly I got beyond page 40.  Of course the book itself is 1460 pages so I'm…