Throwback Thursday: That’s me, around 10, talking into the mic of a black and white, reel-to-reel video camera my dad brought home from work. Watching those videos on TV changed my life and made me think I could make stories Read more…
Every once and a while I get asked by people about my writing process. Some want to know because they, too, want to write novels. Others ask because they’re just curious how I get from an idea in my head Read more…
Running a small business like Sonlight Press, LLC is a challenge. Getting your novels written and out to the public is even harder. Putting those two together requires a bit of money and a lot of faith. Here’s where my Read more…
During my recent recovery from my sixth Crohns intestinal surgery, I took the time to read as much as possible. I’m usually more of a TV binger or classic movie-watcher, but I was determined to shut off the technology and Read more…
The internet is amazing. For the first time in human history, information and global access are at our fingertips 24 hours a day and the technology providing that access has us connected like never before, altering how we live our Read more…
This year was very much an overall representation of my creative life… big goals, almost realized, yet undermined by my health. I started out this year having published nothing. I had spent years learning, writing, re-writing and trashing most of Read more…
I’ve had Crohn’s disease for over half of my life and it has been trying to kill me from the beginning. From massive bleeding in emergency rooms to unexplained and devastating weight loss. From post operative infections to pneumonia and Read more…
In a digital world, writing can sometimes feel like I’m moving ones and zeros in a virtual world where nothing is real. Even when I’ve finished the book and output it into various ebook formats, it still doesn’t feel like Read more…
Technology changes everything and you can’t un-invent disruptive tools once they enter the marketplace. E-readers and portable computers masquerading as phones have made the world’s libraries one click away. But, I hope books will also continue to be available in Read more…
There is something special about the teen years. You know enough about the world to figure out how it works, but you’re not embedded in it. You see where the lines have been drawn by generations before you and you Read more…