Category Archives: Miscellany

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 …

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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 …

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Second Look: Thank You For Ten

My short story collection, Thank You For Ten: Short Fiction About a Little Theatre was not the first idea I had to publish fiction. It was related to that, however, and ultimately was the first thing I ever published. This collection of ten short stories not only share a setting with one another, but with …

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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. …

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National Poetry (sometimes) Month

We are well into April, which is, as the title mentioned, National Poetry Month. (It is also National Autism Awareness Month, which was probably a coincidence, but I like to pretend the two are connected in some unseen, life-affirming way. That’s another post.) Poetry peaks and valleys over the course of my writer’s life in …

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