FictionShield of Ashes is about nuclear war, and without humor the bleakness would flatten a reader before the midpoint. A well-timed flash of absurdity lets them breathe and resets the emotional baseline. Here is why I deliberately put jokes in…
BloggingHARO's death surprised no one watching: Cision rebranded it Connectively, piled on paywalls, and killed the simple email system that had worked for a decade, then shut it down in late 2024. But it is not actually gone. Here is…
Book EmpireI have spent forty-five years writing one fantasy series, Peacekeeper, longer than I have done almost anything else. It taught me more about world-building and magic systems than any craft book could. Here is what nearly half a century inside…
BrandingDerek Sivers just wanted to sell his band's CD, labels ignored him, scouts never showed, so he built a bare website with a shopping cart to do it himself. That throwaway became CD Baby, sold years later for millions. Airbnb,…
FantasyI own all fifteen White Wolf limited editions of the Eternal Champion, and Moorcock justified every dollar: a multiverse so interconnected that reading it feels like grasping a cosmology rather than finishing a series. You jump between Elric, Corum, and…
FictionRemove conflict and a story stops: characters agree, nothing happens, the reader leaves. It is true in fiction, memoir, and nonfiction alike, when a manuscript drags, the conflict is usually missing, weak, or solved too fast. Here is how to…
Book CoachYou want a book; now choose the path. It comes down to time, money, and how much of the writing you actually want to do yourself. Ghostwriting, coaching, and going it alone each deliver a different result on a different…
GhostwritingA rock star once called me with a whole post-apocalyptic world running on sound waves, vivid, passionate, and completely unbuilt. That is the typical sci-fi client: a dazzling vision and no framework to turn it into a novel. World-building, internal…
BusinessJust do your job means one thing from a boss, stop asking questions, and something very different to yourself, stop carrying everyone else's load. The distance between those two is where workplace misery breeds. Drawing on 20 years in retail…
BusinessMy Toastmasters speech was about my tattoos, full sleeves including a phoenix for rebirth after my wife died, and saying it out loud, in front of people, taught me about communication in ways years of writing never had. Here is…
MemoirsIntrovert, ADHD, autism: by every measure I should avoid a stage, yet I now speak regularly and keep seeking more of it. It did not come naturally. It came through grief, a camera, and a lot of practice. Here is…
CybersecurityCoffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
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