Writing, Business, and Art Update!
Last week I finished edits on Buried by the Sound. When I waded back into editing the manuscript, I wasn't sure what condition it was in because it had been a few years since I touched it (sidetracked by kids!). The editing process was largely an affirmation of what...
In Memory of Ursula K. Le Guin
Words aren't adequate here, but I'll try. My uncle introduced me to SFF and comics, which played a huge role in shaping my interests and the person I would become. Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy was a pillar he set in my life as a reader. It would take a few years...
Mayonaise, My Anthem
In the early nineties, I opened a funky little bookshop in Chicago. While the store was corporately owned, the staff never stood for any of that. We were irreverent in everything we did, but we rocked hard and cashed in results for the company. After a year, sales...
Down the research rabbit hole
Research sometimes leads down interesting rabbit holes. While reading up on the roots of neoliberalism, I stumbled on Friedrich Hayek who in 1944 published THE ROAD TO SERFDOM which was a largely ignored treatise on fixing the world through the redistribution of...
Kicking Things Off
I'm finally shifting gears, turning down the lights on my web design business to focus time and energy on launching my writing career. For everyone who knows me, this has been a long time coming. I finished early drafts of my novel 9 years ago, and...