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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 …

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Second Look: 14 Fantastic Frederick County Writing Spots

This is my most niche of all my books. So much so I debated not including it in this series on second looks at my work. But for completeness sake, I will talk about it a little. As the alliterative title suggests, this is a non-fiction short book about spots within my home of Frederick …

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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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