• Loren Had More to Say – Something About Loren Extended Out January 15th

    I know you’ve heard me say this before, but some characters are just louder than others. Each one of them is different, but some characters just keep chattering and want to tell me everything from what they had for breakfast to what they want to do next year. Loren was one of the chatty kinds.

    For me, one of the hardest things about writing is keeping anything short.

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  • A Take Charge Daddy and a Free-Spirited Boy – Dirty Daddies 2020 Anthology

    We all want to belong. Sometimes it’s little things that make us feel like we’re part of the club. In writing, one of the things that really made me feel like I belong was getting asked to do the Dirty Daddies anthology for this year. It probably sounds silly, but it’s basically other authors looking at you and saying that they like your work and they trust you to do the best you can when you participate. But, man, writing shorter stories is soooo hard. Like insanely frustrating. Like it takes three times as long as it should to write because everyone in my head is long-winded. Like they want to tell you what they bought at the grocery store […]

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