Tag: Writing

• January 8, 2024

  📚Join me and my editor for discussion about writing and publishing (and my next book)!📚

  Hello all, I wanted to let you know that I am (excitedly!) doing a live guest spot on my editor Jessica Hatch’s Stubstack podcast, Comp Title Book Club, this Saturday, January 13th, 2024 at 2pm EST! Jessica is veteran editor and author with experience in both traditional and indie publishing, and she is using all…
• September 21, 2023

  Preview for THE GOURD AND THE STARS

  As previously promised, I want to take this week to talk a little about my next book, The Gourd and the Stars, as I’ve entered the last pre-formatting editing phase and my artist at SelfPubBookCovers is beginning work on a cover. I thought I still might be jumping the gun a bit, but seeing how…
• February 16, 2023

  The Girl Who Lived: Historical People and the Question of Ethics in Historical Fiction

  This entry is going to broadly discuss historical fiction, and the framing of two novels, Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer (1979) and Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy (2012) in particular. While normally I wouldn’t post spoiler warnings for two books forty-four and eleven years old respectively, because both books’ synopses play the historical denouement of…
• February 3, 2023

  Release Day for *The Flight of Virtue*

  Apologies for a second sales post in a week, but as promised, I just wanted to remind all of you that my latest book, THE FLIGHT OF VIRTUE is fully live today on all digital storefronts! I’m so excited to bring you this brand new story that is part historical fiction, part alternative history, and…
• January 30, 2023

  Book Release + Sale Announcement!

  I try not to spam all of you with too many promotional posts, but I did want to let everyone know that my next book, The Flight of Virtue will be available for purchase this Friday, (2/3/2023) at all online digital retailers for the ebook ($2.99) and Amazon for the paperback edition ($14.00). For a…
• September 8, 2022

  A Preview Post for the Next Book

  Okay, I had planned to write up a whole post about classical Indian theatre, which I’m sure I’ll do in the near future. But I had also promised updates on my next book assuming the verdict from my editor wasn’t a total disaster, and since I’ve just wrapped up my first pass through her notes…
• August 26, 2022

  Publishing Perils: Mark Twain, Amanda McKittrick Ros, and the Exuberant Afterlife of Irene Iddesleigh 

  “Over the years A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage has been ignored almost entirely by the myriad scholars who have scrutinized every other scrap of Twain’s writing voluminously.” – Roy Blount Jr., foreword to the Norton edition (2001) “Ros’ writing is not just bad, in other words; its badness is so potent that it seems to…
• January 7, 2022

  Scribbling in the Wild: Creative Writing, Self-Publishing, and Finding Your Inner Author in 2022 (Part 2) 

  Last we talked about the writing process and getting past the mental mind blocks to getting your authorial groove on. After all of the actual writing, let’s say you beat the odds and have a finished manuscript you don’t completely hate… now what? That was a question I sat on for three years because I…
• December 31, 2021

  Scribbling in the Wild: Creative Writing, Self-Publishing, and Finding Your Inner Author in 2022 (Part 1) 

  As we reach the end of another fraught year with unfortunately more of the same looming on the horizon, I thought I’d take a break from telling all of you things you’d rather not know about the ancient world and talk a little about my main gig, writing. When I talk to people about writing…