Tag: book-review
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The Lying Years Is Out — and Where the Work Is Headed Now
I quietly released The Lying Years this week. There wasn’t a launch plan or a marketing push. I didn’t run ads or build anticipation. I posted about it a few times and let it go. That wasn’t avoidance. It was intentional. What The Lying Years Is The Lying Years is the second of two memoirs…
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How The Lying Years Connects to Everything Else I Write
(And Why the Memoir Is the Key to My Entire Universe) When people hear I’m working on a recursive novel cycle, a supernatural thriller, a grief-driven metafiction, and a memoir all at once, they usually assume the memoir is the “real-life” outlier — the personal book sitting off to the side while the imaginative fiction…
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UPDATE #6 — The Night the Book Found Its Face
There’s always a moment in every project where the story stops being “an idea” and becomes an object — something with weight, tone, texture, a pulse. For WOLVENBOUND: HIS DARKEST HUNGER, that moment finally hit tonight. And it wasn’t during outlining.It wasn’t during character-building.It wasn’t during the Grammar-for-the-Dead universe talk or the Axis metaphysics.It wasn’t…
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The Secret Thread Beneath Wolf Wounds – Update #5
(How It Quietly Connects to the Grammar for the Dead Universe)** As I’ve been building Wolf Wounds — shaping the outline, organizing the acts in Atticus, figuring out emotional arcs — I’ve also been thinking about how this book fits inside the larger universe I’m creating across all my projects. Some readers already know about…
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An Introduction to The Cancer Diet and The Lying Years
Two memoirs. One story told from opposite sides of the same collapse. Some books are written to chronicle a life.These two were written to survive one. The Cancer Diet and The Lying Years form a matched pair—two memoirs that circle the same events, the same wounds, the same city, and the same self, but from…
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How a Trope Became a Lifeline in WOLF WOUNDS – Wolf Wounds Update 2
Every book reaches a moment where the plot stops needing more monsters, explosions, or twists —and starts needing a person. Not a hero.Not a villain.Not a love interest. A functional adult who walks onstage and stabilizes the room simply by existing. Someone who knows the world already.Someone who has been through hell and can translate…
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The Fulcrum & Axis Theorem: Why I Write the Way I Write
Every writer has a center of gravity—some quiet idea their work keeps returning to, even when they aren’t trying. It took me years, a memoir, a few broken novels, and a whole lot of personal upheaval to understand mine. I call it The Fulcrum & Axis Theorem. It sounds fancy, but I promise it’s not.…
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Writing Update — My Six-Month Release Plan & Where Every Project Stands
Over the last year, my creative life has shifted in a major way. I’m writing steadily, finishing work, and starting to see how all my books — memoirs, fiction, and strange hybrid projects — fit together. For the first time, I’m choosing to treat writing like a long-term career rather than a string of isolated…
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The Star Wars Collapse and the Case for Telling One Big Story That Matters
I love Star Wars. I always have. But the problems with it aren’t simple anymore. They’re layered, cultural, and, yes—political. Part of it is that the people “own” Star Wars now, and just like in politics, those people are divided and being steered by grifters and MAGA trolls. But the other part—the deeper part—is on…
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