Category Archives: Writing

Second Look: The Italics Are My Own

This novella is weird. Odd. Unconventional and difficult to describe. Experimental and dreamy, I knew when I conceived it that it would not be for everyone. In fact I knew it probably would be something very few people would look into, even once I started marketing it. I wrote it anyway. So why did I …

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Second Look: There Is Pain Here

To date the most full-fledge fantasy novel I’ve written is There Is Pain Here. I’d call it a sort of historical fantasy, but for the fact that such refers to a specific and established subgenera with characteristics my novel does not have. Nevertheless, it is a fantasy story, and the protagonist is a historical figure: …

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Second Look: The Beacons I See

With this novel I return to the light fantasy elements of my first few works of fictions. The Beacons I See is a novel of many firsts/onlys as of this writing. To begin with, it is the only work of fiction that came to me as the result of a dream. Partially. I’d fallen asleep …

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Second Look: Order! Ten Stories, Ten Very Different Meetings

From my top selling murder mystery title last week, to my little thought of short story collection. This week’s second look focuses on Order! Ten Stories, Ten Very Different Meetings. I smile when I think of this short volume. Not merely because it was a [particular delight to write, though that is of course part …

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Second Look: Murder. Theatre. Solitaire.

My second novel was not supposed to be either my second, or a (public) novel. I had begun my so called sophomore effort more than once, rewritten it, changed ideas. It felt like an idea I could work with at first, but as year two passed and I still had not gotten any momentum for …

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