Debut Novel Announcement -- "BOYS IN THE VALLEY" Coming Halloween 2021!

Debut Novel Announcement -- "BOYS IN THE VALLEY" Coming Halloween 2021!

I’ve been looking forward to announcing my debut novel for many years, and now I finally get to do it!

Thrilled to announce my novel, BOYS IN THE VALLEY, will be arriving on October 31, 2021, from the esteemed Earthling Publications…

My Top Thrillers of the Last Decade : 2010-2020

My Top Thrillers of the Last Decade : 2010-2020

Welcome to my too-long list of my Top Thrillers of the Last Decade! Hope you enjoy the list, and I hope find a book or two you weren’t aware of! Get reading!

BEHOLD THE VOID, SHILOH to be Translated for Italian Market by Independent Legions Press

BEHOLD THE VOID, SHILOH to be Translated for Italian Market by Independent Legions Press

Pleased to announce my story collection, BEHOLD THE VOID, will be translated into Italian and published in 2021 by Independent Legions Press and publisher Alessandro Manzetti.

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Five "Go Big or Go Home"

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Five "Go Big or Go Home"

I think, at the end of the day, what I’ve learned in five years is that it’s a process. It’s not one thing, it’s a series of things. It’s not one year or three years of failures, it’s a lifetime of failures. It’s a glorious lifetime of trying (and trying and trying and trying). There’s joy in that. There’s victory in that. In the trying. It’s astonishing and liberating and it’s success, believe it or not.

It’s Going Big.

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Four "Reissues, Movie Options and the Great Novel Conundrum"

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Four "Reissues, Movie Options and the Great Novel Conundrum"

Every writer wants to write, sure. But frankly, what every writer really wants is to be published. To be read. And after publishing over a dozen stories between 2015 and 2017, it was really difficult to pull up stakes and wander into the dark woods alone, essentially taking 2018 off from the short form, knowing it would mean no new stories for at least a year, and maybe more. And it’s scary, and dark, and frankly damn lonely in those woods. Bring a light.

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Three "Writers Prefer to Explode from Within"

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Three "Writers Prefer to Explode from Within"

The question then becomes: How much abuse am I willing to take in order to have a publisher or an agent? How much of my self-esteem is up for grabs in order to crack the publishing marketplace?

Is this a writing culture thing?

Is this “just the way it is?”

Is this – God help me – normal?

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Two "The Teeny Tiny Oak Gets Run Over by a Bulldozer"

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Two "The Teeny Tiny Oak Gets Run Over by a Bulldozer"

What had seemed awesome was suddenly not awesome. What seemed like a cool, gracious, supportive online community became contentious, battering, hateful.

I wanted to step away. I wanted to, maybe, forget the whole thing and go back to screenwriting. Better the sharks you know, I figured.

Instead, I wrote.