Performing and writing comedy, and the unglamorous work behind material that sounds effortless.
comedyShield 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…
comedyMost of the books I ghostwrite are serious work, memoirs and business books, but plenty of clients are funny in person and want the page to sound like them. Borrowing someone else's comic timing turns out to be brutally hard.…
Character DevelopmentA knight asks a farmer for directions, walks three steps, returns, and asks again, and again, and what looks like absurdist comedy is really a meditation on free will and being programmed to serve someone else's story. Viva La Dirt…
Author TalksTouring comedian Deece Casillas joins Author Talks to discuss the grind of stand-up, self-publishing, his debut comic book, and just doing it.
Character DevelopmentHorror writer Richard Rumple on moving from radio and standup into fiction, character-driven horror, and his short-story collection Gabriella: Tales from the Demon Cat.
Character DevelopmentMystery author Robin Donovan on her comedic Donna Donnelly murder series, drawing characters from real people, engineering comedy on a schedule, and writing what you know.
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