An Honest Assessment of Blank Pages
This is the strangest blank page I’ve seen in a decade. This is, without question, the strangest year of the...
All Things New
What's New? Well, Just About Everything... While I’m out getting a new house in a new state with a semi-new...
Are We Pittsburgh Good?
If you watch NBC’s This Is Us, you might recognize the phrase, “You’re Pittsburgh good.” The words sum up a...
Halloween Checklist
If Halloween has checklist, my boxes are filled: Old house on hill—√ Ghostly presence residing in house—√ Novels that include ghosts, psychics,...
Psychic Presents
Random psychic, Norwalk, CT The other day, I spoke to a psychic. Card-carrying, bona fide. I...
The Windfall of Publicity
My agent once told me, “You’ll succeed in this business in one of two ways: Your publisher will put a...
About That Tantrum…
Recently, I had a Facebook tantrum—the envy of any two-year-old. My fit was sparked by a reviewer whose words about...
The Next Yellow Line
Number of published words in 2.5 years: 469,030. Hours at my desk? Impossible to calculate, and if sitting truly is...
