“…his beautifully descriptive words that expertly paint a picture of the Idaho wilderness.” “I grew up in the Northwest, and his descriptions of the areas the novel traverses are spot on.” “…the author’s deft hand at describing the Idaho wilderness…” The above quotes are from the few early reviews of The Switch. Setting is…
I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because nobody sticks to them. The most obvious example is the throngs of people who will show up at my gym over the next six weeks. They will promptly disappear about mid-February. Happens every year. Why make a promise on an artificial day of the year? There are a…
One of the websites I use to display my photography, Smugmug, sent me an email asking about my favorite moment of 2017. Clearly, it was during totality of the solar eclipse. I’m fortunate to live only a few hundred miles from the path of totality and have a niece who lives right in the…
“Overnight success is almost always a myth. Half of this industry is luck, and half is the refusal to quit.” – Victoria Schwab, American Fantasy Author. Book 1 done. Book 2 out. Did better on The Redemption, book one, than I would have imagined. The Switch, book two, is ahead of The Redemption in…
For this week’s blog post, I thought I would interview myself, an always instructive exercise. Only six questions. 🙂 How long have you been writing fiction? Longer than I would like to admit. My first book, The Connection, never published, was written over about a five year period. My goal was to just write…
Book reviews are an interesting topic. You can buy reviews, sometimes buy a “good” review for several hundred dollars. You can get advance reviews by sending out all kinds of advance copy to hundreds of unknown persons (and hope some respond). You can suggest a book blogger review your book. Or, like me, you…
I haven’t had much time to devote to my website, trying to get book #2 complete (and this day job thing keeps getting in the way). Now for the most difficult part. Waiting… Macy Thompson, the protagonist in The Switch, doesn’t like to wait. I suppose everything in my books is part of my…
In case you stumbled upon my writing site, it’s under construction. Just getting started. Of course, in the meantime, you can wander over to Amazon and buy my book, The Redemption. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018DCM9FA