August 25, 2025 Photo by Min An on Pexels.com As if writing, scrambling to get published, and being rejected weren't hard enough, the audience for books appears to be shrinking fast. According to a new study, just 16% of American adults - one in six - read for pleasure on a given day in 2023.… Continue reading Where are my future readers?
Category: Writing
On writing: Great expectations, or the worst of times?
July 10, 2025 You've got a winner. The idea for the story came so naturally that you just knew it was special. You visualize the whole thing before sitting down to write, as if all nine muses joined forces to plant it in your head. The words fly onto the screen and you love how… Continue reading On writing: Great expectations, or the worst of times?
New short story: “Wildwood Nights: The Prologue”
June 23, 2025 Art mirrors life—or is it the reverse? For Brian and Kate, reality and fiction spin a complicated web in my new story, “Wildwood Nights: The Prologue.” Just after Kate's infidelity nearly wrecks their marriage, her illness forces them into an uneasy truce at their beach house on the Gulf of Mexico. Amid… Continue reading New short story: “Wildwood Nights: The Prologue”
My new short story: The Sweet Boys
April 28, 2025 The Sweet Boys is about a special bond between brothers whose family is plunged into a dark time when Ethan, the oldest son, is suddenly sent away. His little brother Tommy misses him terribly, can’t understand why he had to leave, and gets the feeling his parents aren’t telling him the real… Continue reading My new short story: The Sweet Boys
Advice to writers: Build that wall
April 1, 2025 CAREFUL! Don't fall into his trap (Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com) Being a writer means going over, around, and through the obstacles on a never-ending course: block, rejections, readers' changing tastes, and vanishing routes to publication. This only gets harder when I add the pernicious self-sabotage known as "falling down the rabbit… Continue reading Advice to writers: Build that wall
Don’t think about this! Don’t forget it!
January 17, 2025 No elephants were dyed in the making of this photo Ever hear of the ironic process theory? You might know it as the pink elephant effect, which means that the harder you try to ignore a certain thought, the deeper it plants itself in your brain. The tusker rampaging through my cranium… Continue reading Don’t think about this! Don’t forget it!