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Adapting One’s Precious: Why most new novelists should personally avoid...
It’s always funny to me how often, when speaking with new novelists, that they are already planning the movie version of their “epic”… sometimes even before they finish the book. We are a very...
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Missing My Vonnegut Moment
Listen: There is a piece of family mythology that I might have made up. My grandmother was friends with Kurt Vonnegut’s first wife’s college roommate. I know that is not much, but here me out; there is...
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The Folio Society: Celebrating Literature
I have never understood why we readers treat literature so poorly. We confine our classics to cheap paperbacks, five-dollar hard copies, bulk versions, and we throw them in bargain bins alongside fake...
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Writing About Tolkien
Tomorrow! Tomorrow! To say, I am looking forward to seeing The Hobbit tomorrow is to not to do it justice. Tolkien and his writing was a major influence on my writing (I discuss this in the post here)....
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I Want a TARDIS! My New Obsession With Doctor Who
I would sell my soul to come up with an idea like Doctor Who. Yes, I would take an eternity in damnation, away from loved ones, baking in flames, to create a character like the man with the Sonic...
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Pete the Cat is the Only Cat I Like
I have always been allergic to cats, which means my relationship to them has been one of avoidance for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, most cats do not know our little “arrangement,” and seem...
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Okay, am I a nerd?
Yesterday, the writer Becky Flade mentioned me in a blog post on her site. The post was called “The Blog that Wasn’t” (which you can find here) and she said this about me and my site: “When I need a …...
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The Posts of an Anglophile
Cheerio! What inspired me to write my editorial this week, “The Happy Anglophile,” is that I am in the process of editing two different books- A Jane Austen Daydream (to be published in April by...
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Braving Austen: Introducing My New Novel A JANE AUSTEN DAYDREAM
Jane Austen was one of my two Mount Everests. The other Mount Everest in my adventures as a writer was Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Yes, I just said Hamlet. See, I’ve always been obsessed with that play and...
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My Time Lost in Books…
Like I said in my post “The Five Books That Made Me” I can get pretty sentimental about books and my history in reading when one of my novels is about to be released. It’s like a kid going off to...
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Drums and Kings: Turning Forty
I have always been a book nerd. A great example of what I mean is my first reaction to J.R.R Tolkien’s masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. I read the book that first time when I was around nine and...
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Why The Littlest Angel is the worst holiday story… ever
When The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell was published in 1946 it was a holiday phenomenon. This “classic” story has since been published numerous times (with many different illustrated versions);...
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My 6 Favorite Blogposts of 2013
Every year, I like to stop and take a look at my life and the year that just was. And one of the great things about having a blog is it makes it quite easy to do just that! I … Continue reading →
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Five Things I Am Into Right Now, November 2014
I am suffering the case of the blahs. Oh, this is not a bad thing related to my life or anything, this is related to books. I’ve done the book reviews for my local NPR station now for over a year and...
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This and the Other Thing: A Writing Update
So this is my life right now. I got this book. I can’t really talk about it. I mean, it’s still being created. It’s fresh, still new, like a babe. Let’s call it SB for Secret Book. This book has taken...
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“Home” by Sheryl Crow
Music has always been very important to me. Many times when I look back at a time or a memory, a song will sneak in before an image. I thought it would be interesting to look back at people and moments...
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Three Things I Have Almost Blogged About…
So when I started this blog, I had nothing but the best intentions. I made lists and lists of different things to write about. … Then I sat down and did way too much about Disneyland and Game of...
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