How your day job impacts your writing
My day job is teaching. Specifically, I teach digital arts and design in high school. I’m also teaching a freshman speech and communications class and […]
Month: September 2019
Reading: What is it that got you started?
Reading has always been a big part of my life. I simply don’t remember not reading.
When a series comes to an end
In July 2005, I logged in to my computer and saw that one of my very favorite series ended.
Lovecraft: That’s right, I don’t like him
I look at lists of authors I have to read – H.P. Lovecraft, John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, J.R.R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, and others.
My origins in fantasy, horror, and science fiction
Films were the foundations, the origins, of my interest in speculative fiction.
Book signings and money: Why I Patreon
Patreon is a game changer in the creative world. Ok, not really, but it is pretty darned important. My mother related a story. Many years […]
The writer’s life clashes with the real world
I’ve been away from the blog for a bit more than a month and for good reason. My writer’s life clashed hard with the real […]