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What’s on the Other Side of Destruction?
This is one of the basic questions I asked when writing my soon-to-be released novel Tesler and the Burning Bush. In the FROM THE AUTHOR description of the book, I wrote the following. It should give you a glimpse as to the purpose of the book. I hope it sounds intriguing, because writing it was…
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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…