This blog is not typically a “product” blog. I don’t endlessly sell items, though I do try to promote my own work and the writing of...

All of the titles mentioned in this blog post (with the exception of out-of-print books) can be found here: http://astore.amazon.com/wile...

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[youtube=http://youtu.be/Shf1pCUVACc] I was asked to be a contributing author to a new anthology, Letters to Me – Conversations With a...

As I mentioned last week, today is the official launch day of a new book, Letters to Me: Conversations With a Younger Self. About...

I was honored to be asked to participate in a new anthology called, Letters to Me. Letters to Me is written by an eclectic collection of...

Another month is gone, and another batch of books made the migration from the “to be read” shelf to the “been there, done that” shelf....

Good fiction transports us into other worlds. Sometimes, this takes the form of the sweeping Civil War epic or the Deep Space...

Here is the run-down of my reading list for September: The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene – Greene’s masterpiece is both hauntingly...

A long weekend followed by a productive Tuesday and BOOM…here it is, already the 5th of September and I haven’t posted my monthly recap...

Just a quick note today to tell you that if you head over to my friend and fellow-Floridian Marni Mann’s blog, you’ll see info on how you...

It’s a mathematical truth: The older you get, the faster time passes. When I was ten, a year was 1/10th of my life. Now, it is 1/39th....

I saw a comment on Facebook, today, from a fellow writer who said: “I’m thinking about starting a blog. Thoughts?” My initial reaction...

Another month has gone by. As I’ve done each month this year, here is my reading list for the month of March. Fiction Nude, by Naeem Murr...

In 2009, my writer-friend Shawn Smucker found himself in a tough situation. His construction-based small business was in debt and the...

I asked fellow Floridian writer, Marni Mann, to write a guest blog post talking about another project she was involved in after the...

Another month behind us, and here is the February list of books finally rescued from the “To Read” shelf: A Visit From the Goon Squad –...

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I mentioned the other day I was planning to post a listing of the books I’ve read (or, in a couple of cases, books I’m close to...

I have a very real and tactile memory of a great number of things from my elementary school, Adams Elementary, in Hamilton, Ohio. I can...