While I’m in between drafts of my next novel, I’ve decided to set aside a few hours a day to connect with readers from across the country. If you’re a teacher with a classroom full of enthusiastic students or the member of a book club that spends at least a few minutes talking about the book before turning […]
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Rarely does a day pass without several people asking about the second Orphans book. For those peeps (and everyone else who read and enjoyed The Orphans ), I have some great news … After focusing on a couple unrelated novels (one of which is still out to publishers, so cross your fingers for me), I’ve started putting pen to
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This post is for anyone who suffers from back pain. According to stats (that I’m too lazy to look up), a lot of people deal with daily back pain. Hopefully, my story can help you. Truthfully, this post shouldn’t require much explanation. The headline says it all. The “how” is that I just read a book. However,
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This isn’t a clickbait scam, I promise. I’ve fallen for those too many times to employ the same sneaky tactics. I’m seriously giving away a million ebook copies of my novel The Orphans. It may sound crazy, but as someone who spends most of the day having conversations with myself through made-up characters–crazy suits me.
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Today is a big day. Okay, that’s an understatement. It’s a HUGE day. The Orphans is available to read! (Click here to purchase on Amazon.) This book is not only the culmination of the twelve months of hard work and countless rewrites that it took to move the story from my mind to the page, but
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Big news! My book (The Orphans) is going to be available for presale on Amazon in eBook format starting tomorrow (Fri 5/22). Unlike with films and their million dollar budgets, all of the marketing falls on my shoulders, which is why I really need YOUR help to get the word out by being part of
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I received an email from a reader asking why I decided to self-publish. I get asked that question a lot, and even though (most of the time) it’s probably a harmless/genuine question, my first instinct is always to defend myself and my decision, as if they were really questioning me as a writer. While self-publishing has
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With the baseball season in full swing and my Nationals–the consensus World Series favorites–struggling out of the gate, it dawned on me that writing novels shares a lot in common with being a major league baseball player. All right, fine. You’re right. They don’t have a lot in common. I was just saying that because I
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Today, I finished the fourth draft of my middle grade novel Stealing Christmas, and I’m feeling pretty damn good. It seems like the perfect segue into a question that I get all the time: how do you do it? The “it” they are referring to is sitting at a computer for 10 hours a day
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First off, I promise that my third post will have a better title than “Third Post.” Also, I will try to give my blog a little more attention going forward. I’ve decided to use the blog to do some ground breaking stuff. This has never been done, but I will post updates and answer any
