Friday, July 24, 2020

Never Refuse to Reuse

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It’s happening again. My first novel, Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead, came out nearly six years ago now. It was a male teenager’s story...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

St. John’s Eve

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Tonight is St. John’s Eve. If that means anything to you, it could be because you live or have lived in Ireland. This is the night when the...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Feeling Entitled

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Shall I keep teasing readers about my next book? Sure, why not? Heck, why not tease them about the next two books? As I mentioned last tim...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Third Installment Soundtrack

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Inevitably, I will always look back on my fifth novel as “the Covid-19 book.” Being required to stay at home for weeks—while not forgetting ...
Monday, March 16, 2020

The Bard of Santiago de Chuco

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First, a writing update. I am pleased to report I am nearly at the end of Chapter 23 in my first draft of the sequel to Lautaro’s Spear. I s...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Agreeing with Stephen Fry

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Work on Volume Three of the Dallas Green Trilogy continues. After getting through Christmas and flu seasons in January, I finally got back i...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

One Hundred Years of Waiting?

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If you go into Netflix and look up Title No. 81087583, you come across something that makes people like me very excited. It is a series call...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

Happy 67th, Dallas!

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It’s Pearl Harbor Day, which means it is also the real-life birthday of the non-real-life character who has consumed more of my time than an...
Friday, November 1, 2019

The Playlist of Septimus Bridge

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If you are about to read (or reread) The Curse of Septimus Bridge, here is some good news. Now you can listen to music while you read it. O...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Back on the Apology Train

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How times flies. This month marks five years since the release of the paperback version of Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead . That half-deca...