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Well I’m about 30,000 words into the new book and still going strong. This one’s about two convicts on the lam in the Mojave desert, in case you couldn’t gather that from the sample chapter I posted awhile back. More soon.

Well, as promised I’ve quit my job and changed cities. Google gave me and everyone else a nice new phone for a Christmas present, so I’m pretty happy. As of now I’ve relocated to my parents’ house in central New Hampshire while I decide what to do with the rest of my life. Yes that’s right. I’m 33 and I… (more…)

…about Catharsis from Essie Holton, an indie book reviewer. Check it out here.

With me. I’m resigning from my job at Google, where I’ve been a loyal cubicle jockey for almost five years. It’s definitely been a great place to work (I mean how many offices have masseuses on-site and something like five cafeterias in one building?) but I’m bored to death with working on advertisements, and I’d never thought I’d say this… (more…)

I have the rough plot of the next book mapped out and I’m starting the “serious writing” phase, which basically means I will not be in any New York bars for the next few months. If I can keep a steady pace I may be done by the end of the year. Be warned though – I have horribly awful… (more…)

Here’s what I got. More chapters written than what you see here; this is just the first little vignette, completely unedited. A boy was looking back at her, and the blond girl in the back of the car thought he was cute. He wasn’t really a boy. He was a young man, but Maryanne, at seventeen, hadn’t quite got the… (more…)

“If you want mindless smut, murder, blood and gore then this one is for you.” That’s an analysis I can fully support.

I’ve committed to getting something new released by next February, if not sooner. This will let me set a strict writing schedule instead of my usual eh-guess-I’ll-write-today routine. I’m a few chapters in, and so far I’m liking what I’ve got. It’s about two escaped convicts on the run in the California/Nevada desert, and that’s about it for now. Maybe… (more…)

I really, really hate writing. There, I said it. Every other review I’ve been getting compares me to Stephen King, and that’s great, but I wish I had a tenth of his productivity. It took me something like four years to churn out Catharsis, and it’s not an epic length. Something like 400 pages, double spaced. A hundred pages a… (more…)

are in, and both were phenomenal. One person insists that I’m definitely, seriously Stephen King’s alter ego. Another guy said my writing ranges from fantastic to okay, and I remind him of John Updike. I’m still steeling myself for the inevitable nasty review – everyone has a few – but insightful, positive ones like I’ve just received definitely soften the… (more…)