Quoth Og Mandino

"Just as nature made no provision for your body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for your life to suffer failure."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Lee Moyer dissects the cover art of my first two books

This past week, artist Lee Moyer and I lunched at Portland’s Veritable Quandary to discuss cover art for my next two books. Spending time with Lee is always a treat—he can converse brilliantly on a wide range of subjects—but he is never more in his element than when he’s talking about art.

At that lunch, Lee [...]

Choose-Your-Own Marketing Adventure!

OK, so I was out and about with the divine Sara Mueller the other day, and we got to talking about book marketing, and she said something along the lines of, “Golly gee, don’t you have another book coming out soon? What are you planning to do for marketing?” And I twisted my toe [...]

Try it before you buy it!

So it’s Friday already. I’m not quite sure how that happened. I think it has something to do with the rotation of the earth around the sun, but that’s a dangerous concept to be bruiting about so I think I will keep mum on the subject.

A subject I will not keep mum on [...]

It’s a party and you’re invited

So I have a lot to celebrate today:

1) The copyedits on Book 2 are done and sent off! You know, it doesn’t sound like that big of a deal. But copyedits are a pain in the butt, especially the way I do them. I am not comfortable unless I go through the [...]

Where has the glamour gone?

So I know that all I’ve been doing lately is posting about book stuff, and while I’m sure you all understand I feel like an apology is in order. I know what you all really tune in for are the tales in which I describe the unrelenting glamour of my life. At the moment, [...]