Category Archives: Miscellany
Second Look: Lodestone Crossing
It’s a long book of poetry. Experimental poetry. An oddity to end this series of looking back on my books, but such was the chronology. Lodestone Crossing Is a long poem broken into smaller chapters, derived from several sessions of “blackout” poetry. It’s a process wherein one takes a preexisting text, and removes (or blacks …
Second Look: Thoughts I Wrote Down Because I Hate Talking to People
My first foray into publishing book length non-fiction was Thoughts I Wrote Down Because I Hate Talking to People. It’s a collection of thought pieces or life essays, most of which I kept light hearted, but not all. It is the first work I published after my Autism diagnosis. As such, the Autistic perceptive on …
Second Look: Flowers of Dionysus
My first novel could have been my last. I had always written non-fiction, mostly articles and essays, a letter to the editor, with some poetry mixed here and there. I dabbled in short fiction over the years, but never did anything with it. I had also attempted to write a novel a few times in …
Heart-Probability: What I Look For in Fiction
I don’t know what the hell to read next. Only once I skim either the shelves of the library, or the descriptions online can I come to a conclusion about what book I want to try next. (Word to other indie-publishers, that jacket blurb is damned important!) About 50% of the time, I am right. …
