On Writing Stories

I started writing fiction when I was nine. But I didn’t write what I considered “serious fiction” until I was fourteen. They were baseball stories about the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of the game. There were no personal struggles in those stories that went beyond a weak pitcher trying to defeat a strong lineup of … Continue reading On Writing Stories

Being a Self-Published Author

Not that I never tried to become a published author in the traditional sense, but I’m too impatient to wait for something I can do myself. After all, I self-published my first short story in book form when I was fourteen. Ten years later, I self-published my own comic book. By the time I was … Continue reading Being a Self-Published Author

Book of Stories

Anyone interested in reading my latest book Night of the Hell Hounds and Other Stories from the Ridgewood Chronicles, Kindle Edition at Amazon, can follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Hell-Hounds-Ridgewood-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00AY2K1H6. Anyone interested in the paperback version can follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Hell-Hounds-Ridgewood-Chronicles/dp/B0CQHDH44C/. I also have an author site via Amazon. You can view it at https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00B356PPU to see … Continue reading Book of Stories

The Poet, Poem 2023-0112

The boy who lost his mother gnarled like a bear— tough bear he. Away from the bestial, he had softness in his eyes that laughed even when he and his words were sharp and sometimes ambiguous. He showed the plumpness of his belly to his closest friends and grunted like a pig and poet laughing … Continue reading The Poet, Poem 2023-0112

New Year, New Ideas, New Goals

I love writing fiction. It brings out my inner child. The story world of my books is a playground in my mind where my characters can run as fast as they can, jump far, fly if they need to, fall and skin their knees if they must, and end up heroes if I want them … Continue reading New Year, New Ideas, New Goals