I have reached the Irascible Season. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the holidays—I do. The problem is that Thanksgiving arrives right in the middle of a very busy time of the semester (my day job is university professor). And Read more
For two days, I’ve been snowed in. Okay, I’m exaggerating a little. It’s not like there’s so much snow my doors and windows are covered and I’m unable to get out of the house. And it’s not like the roads Read more
The final story in the Bad to be Good series released yesterday and its a Christmas story. The former mobsters of Longboat Key have come a long way since that first book and all I can say is that writing Read more
The holidays are upon us again and while things definitely are better (for many of us at least) we’re still no where close to ‘normal.’ People toss out the new normal a lot, but this time, there really will need Read more
Hi y’all! Can you believe it’s already November? Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner and I, for one, am thrilled. I’m running a sale on one of my books this weekend on Amazon and thought I’d share that Read more
This month I want to talk about the importance of length. No, not that—get your mind out of the gutter! I mean story length. There are no set industry length standards for different kinds of fiction; different publishers (and other Read more