Hello Friends, I hope your spring has sprung. I know some of my friends in the mountains had a huge snowstorm last week…in May. Calendars matter, but Mother Nature is undefeated. She doesn’t care what you expect; she does what she does. As I wrap up book 5 of The Austen Chronicles and get close to the final draft of Comics Lit Vol 2 (more on this below), I realize that writing is often just as unexpected as a spring snowstorm. It is one of the big reasons that real writing, by a human, will...

Hello Friends. Happy April. I hope the tax fairy was good to you this year and left you a present under your pillow and not a bill. It is always good to get good news. So I will send you all happy thoughts. While I’m on the subject of good news, I was just asked to teach a graduate class this summer called Writing and Rhetoric of Nonfiction. I am pretty excited about that because, as you may have noticed, my newsletters have evolved into little works of literary analysis. I love that kind of...

Hello Friends, Big News! I got a new story published! You can read all about it way down at the end of the newsletter. I didn't want to bury the lede. Happy Solstice. Did you try to stand an egg on its end? Did it work? I have actually done it twice in my life that I can remember. That would be amazing if I were 8, but I’m in my 50s, so my success rate is low. I try; I fail. Sometimes I totally forget to try because I’m distracted by…something or other. Who knows. Could be anything. Could be...