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My Vietnam Fantasy Novel: FREE on Kindle – Limited Time!
I lived in Vietnam for approximately ten years. It changed me in many ways. I learned a second language. I took a deep dive into the culture and history of the region. When I left Vietnam, many lessons stuck with me. One of those lessons was about the amazing resiliency of the Vietnamese people throughout…
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Anyone Else Sick of the AI Spam?!
It’s become a daily routine. I get an email forwarded from my website to my personal email, and it’s some glowing inquiry about one of my books. It’s a book club wanting to make me their author of the month! It’s a radio station wanting to interview me about my new book. Today it was…
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EXCERPT: From an embarrassing story about food
In the chapter entitled “Food” in my new childhood memoir, I tell a short story about an embarrassing moment in a movie theatre. Here goes: My appetite had no limits (except for the aforementioned green stuff), until one day it reached its embarrassing maximum at the worst possible time. This was circa 8th grade, and…
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Available Now in Paperback & Kindle – The Logic of a Gen X Appalachian Boy: A Childhood Memoir
Before technology swept away society’s 19th century ways, a blonde-haired, tongue-tied Appalachian boy tries to make sense of a hard-to-explain world. The mysteries of girls. The trials of school. The safety of family. The confusion of church. The cold facts of death. These are the memories of a boy navigating his way through his first…
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Excerpt on Memories: The Logic of a Gen X Appalachian Boy
My childhood memoir releases tomorrow, July 6. The whole process of writing this book was a fascinating exercise in memory. I felt it necessary to write a short preface about how I would deal with my memories. Here’s the first part of the preface: Memories linger in one’s mind as factual events decades later. I…
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AI and My Creative Writing
I’m not sure if every writer plans to make a statement about AI, but I feel like I need to. Recently, I was sitting in a café in Tbilisi, and a German man was sitting beside me. I had my laptop out and was working on a chapter of a new novel using my normal…
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A Childhood Memoir – Available July 6
I’m excited to announce the publication of a book I never intended on writing. It’s a short and sweet nostalgic memoir for me as I think back through the childhood stories which helped solidfy my formative years. The book will be availble on Kindle ebook and paperback on July 6. This also happens to be…
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A Three Book Writing Update
Last night, I wrote the first five hundred words of my next novel. I have a planned writing trip approaching on June 1, and I wanted to make sure I had a head start on the next ideas rattling around in my brain. I’ve had this idea for a number of years. It’s technically a…
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Finally, a New Novel – writing update
I noticed I made an original Scrivener file in July of 2022. That file, over the next three years, turned into my newest novel, coming later in 2026 entitled, Tesler and the Burning Bush. It’s been three years since I published a novel, with Lady Trieu and the Demon Warrior of Hanoi being released in…