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All That Waits in the Night Book Event

On Friday, June 10th, at Mood Coffee Co. in Sellersburg, IN, we had a special event to celebrate the arrival of All That Waits…

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Check out my new trailer!

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Half-Remembered Ghosts

When I write, it is usually toward a specific end. Typically, that end is publication. It is a rare occasion that I would write…

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The Hamster Wheel

no light at the end of the tunnel that isn’t an oncoming train. Just work. And more work. Failing and failing some more. And between those moments, sometimes a win. A sale. A reader. Some hope. And then you get back to it. Write more. Edit more. Hustle more.

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An Open Letter to the Comics Community at Large:

                  When you grow up reading comics, it’s easy to get lost in the world of colorful heroes and tales of adventure—to imagine what it…

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Q&A 2015: E-books,The Process, and Things To Come

Why/when/how do you write? “Why” is actually the hardest of those three questions…or, at least, the answer is a bit more ethereal. I write…

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Poetry Lab: Week Four

            This is our fourth Poetry Lab and the first time we focus on a single poem instead of the…

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Poetry Lab: Week Three

            Greetings, all. For this Lab, we’ll take a look at Nautical Terms (and How Best to Love Them) and…

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Poetry Lab: Week Two

Today, we’ll take a look at two more pieces from Pearl Dandy, “Loretta” and “A Poem for Children.” Both pieces are a bit absurd…

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Poetry Lab: Week One

I sometimes think poetry is a mystic art. It is the conjuring of words and forms, meter and (sometimes) rhyme to transport—intellectually and emotionally…

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