The Kirkus Review of Where You Will Die pulls no punches. One week away from publication of my debut novel, Where You Will Die, the first...

I'm excited and honored by the invitation to give my first public reading of Where You Will Die, this Tuesday evening, September 13, at...

I had ideas for a special, wow-inducing reveal of the cover design for my novel, Where You Will Die, due out in late September. I thought...

I find it difficult, thinking back five years later, to remember and explain the origin of the five women known in my novel as "The...

For someone we find dead on page 1 of Where You Will Die*, Ruth MacKenzie plays a big part throughout the rest of the book. Here's how...

My wife and I lived in the forested, foothill California town called Paradise for over twenty years. We loved it there, and turned our...

A Review of Flickering Heart by Tricia LaRochelle Like all good romance stories, Tricia LaRochelle's debut novel pits the happiness of...

Actually, I just turned sixty-four, but my literary virginity is about to be lost. My debut novel, Where You Will Die, will come out this...

An atom, forged at the dawn of time, lives in my body. It burns and hums as once it did in the corona of stars, in the shimmering gasses...

A Review of Sinister Refuge by Rick E. George On the topic of the writing craft, Margaret Atwood urges authors to follow one iron-clad...

Alan Wright, the main character of my novel, "Where You Will Die", has a message. For more than ten years, he has spread the word via his...

A review of As If Death Summoned by Alan E. Rose When I finished reading Alan E. Rose's latest novel, As If Death Summoned, and closed...

And what's with the kilt? My manuscript of WHERE YOU WILL DIE is now in the hands of a very accomplished and insightful editor, giving...

An entire chapter of WHERE YOU WILL DIE, put out of its misery. Accomplished authors and teachers of the writing craft all agree: Good...

In October 2020, I participated in the first-ever Zoom meeting of WordFest - the long-lived and beloved forum for Pacific Northwest...

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic...

No one is more surprised than I to report I am meeting the milestones I set for myself in this last big edit of my novel, WHERE YOU WILL...

A New Direction for My Novel After three years of drafting, editing, and revising, I am embarked on the final preparations of my novel,...

"Hell is the impossibility of reason." Oh, heady days! Late imperial, early feudal, rancor in the air like poison smoke. We breathe in...