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Sins of the Father Drops 11/27/2025
After a long and laborious process (well over a year late), my next book, Sins of the Father, is finally available starting tomorrow, 11/27/2025! Why did it take so long to get this creative masterpiece out the door? Life. Plus a laborious editing process where the perfectionist in me went back a thousand times over…
History…Repeats
Today’s sharing with all of you explores how history influences my writing and how it provides inspiration and relatable themes for what I share with my readers. I integrate actual events into fictional narratives, and much like history often repeats itself and shapes our understanding of the present, it also shapes me as a writer.…
Prophesy of the Mind
What comes next as a writer produces sweat on the forehead. People ask the question and want to know. What to say can be a complex answer, as the road ahead is never quite straight. For me, it is something that has so many forks down the way that I have to pause. What is…
Too Long in the Wind
The author reflects on a two-year hiatus from posting to his blog, citing personal challenges, including grief over the loss of pets and the chaos of world events. Despite this, he have been busy crafting multiple books, including a sequel to Pandemic-19 titled, Sins of the Father. He expresses excitement about reconnecting with readers and…
The “Scene” of Death
As writers, we live and die by our words.
Particularly, the avenues we choose to formulate and describe a scene in a chapter become critical ways for us to convey emotions, fear, and acceptance for our readers to relish in our books. There are formulaic frameworks, tried and true structures, even the dreaded copycat of…
What’s Vacation?
Life.
It chews you up and spits you out.
At least, that seems to be the case in the magnificently chaotic and ever-revolving world I love to call my home life.
Fuel for the Imagination
What fuels your brain? That is a question writers get asked.
A lot.
For some, it is a hard one to answer concisely, as we writers get our inspiration from a variety of sources. For others, it is a quick reply steeped in direct language that paints a great picture.
Genres – What Am I Fighting For?
Why are we beholden to one genre or siloed inside a particular box?
Why can’t we simply have a book that speaks to whomever and without residing within the confines of some arbitrary sphere?
When Real-Life Feeds Fiction
Every writer finds inspiration in some some sort of real event or memory. It is the nature of the beast.
That is not to say that we use our lives in totality and turn every single aspect into a plot point or scene in one of our books.
No, not at all.
But, we…
The Depths of Research
First person research.
It is one thing to pick up a book (surprise!) and read descriptions and information that you then decide to use as background or pieces of the puzzle to your writings.
It is another thing to dive headfirst into the weeds so to speak and get your hands dirty.
Well, for the…
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