Track 5: So Warm
You'll probably notice right away that this song sounds dramatically different from the first song I offered you, "The Lights Go Down at...
Track 2: The Lights Go Down at Eight O'Clock
If you've read this blog at all or if you know anything about my career, you know that I'm a book writer and book publisher by trade....
Twenty
My novel, Crossing the Bridge, is in some ways about an event that affected the life of my protagonist Hugh so completely that ten years...
Fathering and Fiction
I’ve been writing nonfiction books for many years now, everything from parenting to politics. When I decided that I needed to write about...
In the Company of women
I have always been a guy that gets along better with women than men. It’s not that I don’t like hanging out with men; I have always had a...
Little Bit
One of the questions I get from readers regularly is about whether my novels are autobiographical. I'm guessing this happens to me so...
The Pop-Up Home
My novel The Journey Home is both a love story and a rumination on the nature and meaning of home, a subject that means a great deal to...
To Make it Real, Make it Fantasy
The first writer whose work truly resonated with me was Ray Bradbury. I’ll never forget picking up a copy of his story collection, I Sing...
A working vacation
I’m not a person who has trouble distinguishing work time from family time. I work very, very hard, but when I’m with my loved ones, I...
At the Keyboard and On the Couch
When I was going through the revision process on my first novel with my editor, we had a telling conversation. She was concerned that I...
