You Only Live Once
Just a short while ago – a blink of an eye really – I hit the big 5-0. Turning fifty is a huge milestone and I chose to celebrate everything I’d achieved in my life up until that point in Read more
Category: Guest Post
Writing to Feed the Soul vs. Writing to Feed the Family
Are these two things mutually exclusive? No, they don’t have to be. I want to preface this article with the reminder that I use this space to talk about my experiences as a writer, which I hope will entertain readers Read more
Sunshine in the Rain
Last September, I attended the Dreamspinner Author Workshop in Orlando. It’s my haven conference—friends, authors, family coming together to talk about books and ideas, it’s seriously amazing. But the one thing that conference can’t do for me, is cure my Read more
Monthly Guest Post—Andrew Q. Gordon—A Last Hurrah
I came out a bit more than 30 years ago. (Scary that some people reading this might not have been born then, but I don’t wanna think about that.) A guy had a crush on found out I’d played baseball Read more
The Pain of Self-Promotion
It’s the worst part of this being-an-author gig. I don’t like promotion. Really don’t like it. The task of building any kind of following doesn’t come with an instruction pamphlet, and that makes it a rather scary proposition. Publishers don’t Read more
The Fruit of the Family Tree
We all are products of our pasts. I’m a writer because I love reading and I love telling stories, but I’m also a writer because my Grandma Joyce was one. She wrote them in short form and in plays for Read more