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  • On finishing another book

    Hey, folks and friends. Kenji always says guys, gals and nonbinary pals. I like that. I have been known to say theydies and gentlethems, but the other day I heard someone say “gentles and ladymen” and that is also chef… Continue reading

  • Still Life with Bubbles

    I watched the bubbles in the kitchen sink. I wanted to look away.  Move. Grab the blue stemmed wine glass lazily drifting beneath those bubbles and scrub it out furiously. Smash it on the floor.  The wall.  A face.  I… Continue reading

  • The Loud Pass

    I don’t know if this is everybody’s process, but now that I am done with the fair draft of The Steel Ghost I’ve locked myself in a hotel room and I’m going to start reading it out loud and making… Continue reading

  • Blog the first

    Don’t cool writers have blogs? I mean, maybe not. the REALLY cool ones have a gaggle of screaming followers throwing underthings at them, I think, but I’ve never been cool. I am, however, burdened with an overabundance of things to… Continue reading