Refuting Alabama Repubican Paul DeMarco’s disinformationFormer Alabama state representative Paul DeMarco wrote a column recently that just … it got under my skin due to the outright…Aug 5, 2021Aug 5, 2021
‘Overnight Success’Had lunch with a buddy of mine a while back. I’d just signed my book deal(s), and we’re sitting there talking about how everything had come…Jul 15, 2021Jul 15, 2021
Suddenly I’m an Expert? Or, ‘Everything I Know About Publishing (and It Ain’t Much)’Since signing my publishing contracts, I’ve gotten several Twitter DMs and a couple of Facebook messages, essentially offering…Jun 29, 2021Jun 29, 2021
Mrs. Holland’s Opus, or ‘Why Everything I Write Is Powered by a Deep and Abiding Rage’Don’t blame me for Mrs. Holland’s prematurely gray hair. It was like that when I first entered her classroom at Enterprise Junior High…Jun 28, 2021Jun 28, 2021
The Strange Tale of What Happened to My Book DealI woke up to the best news in the world on January 1, 2021: British publisher Close to the Bone offered me a contract for my novel, Magic…Jun 27, 2021Jun 27, 2021
Writing & Subbing & EditingHere’s a bit of a follow-up to my last post, where I talked about reaching writing goals for the year, hopefully with some important…Oct 30, 2020Oct 30, 2020
Small Victories During a Trash-Fire YearFirst, I want to stipulate that 2020 has been absolute garbage: Wildfires. Worldwide pandemic. Murder hornets. More unarmed Black people…Sep 7, 2020Sep 7, 2020
Resolutions, 2020 editionThis is a mostly personal post. I made some serious changes in 2019, and I want to keep them going in 2020. So here are a few resolutions…Dec 31, 2019Dec 31, 2019
Short Fiction: Hidden HouseEditor’s note: This story is based around true events that happened when I was a child. The house in the story still exists, maybe 100…Oct 4, 2019Oct 4, 2019
