How does childhood and adolescent trauma shape our outlooks, our life choices, and our personalities? Do we ever get away from it? Through therapy… time… self-medicating…? Or do we evolve with it, living life and folding in new experiences, thinking we’ve moved on until we catch sight of an old trauma from another angle and …
When you read a book, do you picture the locations? Not just the imagery but the actual layout of the rooms? When I’m writing my novels, I often like to sketch the layout of a setting so I can picture it more clearly… and describe it without contradictions (though I probably still make mistakes). For …
Hey, friends! Want to meet me in person and enjoy a fun outdoor event? If you’re in the Northern Virginia area, you can come see me at Comic Logic Books & Artwork‘s second annual Lot Con! I attended the first event last year and it was a lot of fun! (Read my post about it …
While I prefer fictional story settings, To the Left of Death made that tricky, given that the main character spends some time in New York City. It is a fictionalized New York City, in the sense that the places the characters visit are (mostly) not real. However, I like my fictionalized cities to be grounded …
Ready for a story break? In addition to listening to stories on my podcast, you can now read 20 of those stories in Freely Written Vol. 1. This slim book is easy to toss in a bag for reading on-the-go and it makes a great gift for story lovers who’d rather read than listen to …
