Signal, Signal, Signal…a lot of recent personal progression and soul-searching just culminated in a thunderclap of Signal. Just now, in the last fifteen minutes. A few months ago, during the Superstars Writing Seminars in Colorado Springs, a dear friend of … Continue reading →
The book I’m currently finishing, the first in the Fool’s Hollow series, with a story that spans my entire career, is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. There are lines in it I wrote when I was sixteen; there are … Continue reading →
When people visit my private working office at the Coppervale Studio, they see that it’s chock-full of books, comics, and art. Closer observers who know me better realize that most of the stuff in here is from the mid 1980’s … Continue reading →
Since the posting of my essay A Force of Nature a few days ago, I’ve been overwhelmed with responses: from friends, family, readers, fans, and complete strangers. Two responses in particular I wrote about on my facebook page, and how … Continue reading →
A few times in my life, due to a terrible confluence of circumstances, I have felt real despair — the kind of despair that made me consider ending my own life. No single condition or circumstance would have been enough; … Continue reading →
My books, specifically DRAWING OUT THE DRAGONS and the forthcoming second and third books in The Meditations series, THE BARBIZON DIARIES and THE GRAND DESIGN, are rightly billed as works intended to be both motivational and inspirational, and much of … Continue reading →
“If you dress like, look like, act as, and speak as a protagonist, circumstances will begin to shape themselves around your wake, rather than the other way around.” From the forthcoming second book in The Meditations, THE BARBIZON DIARIES: A … Continue reading →
This Tuesday, September 24th, I will have the honor of being the Guest Speaker at the Second Annual Writers Unite To Fight Cancer (WUFC) Writing Contest Awards Ceremony. The event will be held at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, starting … Continue reading →
From the current work in progress, the almost completed FOOL’S HOLLOW, Book One: “Some of the greatest storytelling comes from subtle, subliminal changes, from the unconscious mind welling to the surface in the course of telling the tale. That is … Continue reading →
As a lot of you know, last weekend my private office at the Studio was broken into and my two primary work computers (a brand new 27″ iMac, plus a 2011 27″ iMac I was giving to my brother so … Continue reading →