Garden Witch Sold to Lost Boys Press!
To be honest, it's been a long and sometimes discouraging slog getting to this point. Others might nod sagely and say it was just a 7-year cycle, but after dozens and dozens of rejections, I…
Paying It Forward…
I’m offering a full scholarship to a Writers Digest workshop. I’ve just signed with a literary agent — again. First time around was pretty disappointing. This time, though, signing with Amy Collins of Talcott…
Hello, I’m back, and so are two of my books!
It’s been a strange couple of years for all of us since I last posted: not just because of COVID, but more importantly, the profoundly destabilizing, disorienting force the pandemic has been in our culture.…
Winter Solstice 2016
I've been writing winter solstice poems for close to fifty years. Not every year, but this profound solar event seems to present itself to me over and over as a moment to take seriously, in…
Olympic Medal Reality Check, 2016
"US Exceeds all Expectations in Rio" crows a headline here in the US today. Um, maybe not so much. This is my second Summer Olympics to offer a different way of looking at Olympic glory.…
Iguazú Falls
A week ago I returned from a trip to Argentina. I’d never traveled to South America before, and since it was the only continent (not counting Antarctica) I had yet to visit, I was excited.…
Blood and Dirt Excerpts
If you'd like to read the opening chapters, I've got Blood and Dirt excerpts sprinkled around the internet, plus a few blog interviews. Here's a map to get around: August 21st with Clare London -…
Blood & Dirt Releases Soon!
It's been a long time coming (because it took months longer to finish than I had originally planned), but the digital version of my new Russ Morgan mystery Blood & Dirt is scheduled for release from Wilde City…
A Wild Two Weeks!
Just coming up for air after a wildly eventful two weeks. Not sure what happened astrologically or in some other energies I don’t manage, but it was like a dam broke and washed down my…
In Praise of Cognitive Dissonance
For years, I had a quote pinned up on the wall of my workspace attributed to congressional historian Daniel J Boorstin: “The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the…