ComedyFebruary 10, 2026
Shield 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…
ComedyFebruary 10, 2026
Most 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 DevelopmentFebruary 9, 2026
A 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…
ComedyJanuary 22, 2026
20 exercises in incongruity, escalation, timing, status reversal, and the structural mechanics that make prose genuinely funny. Genres: Comedy, Satire, Humor
ComedyJanuary 16, 2026
The 11 best romantic comedies ever made, analyzed for craft and emotional depth. From Groundhog Day to When Harry Met Sally—films that changed the genre.
Black ComedyNovember 10, 2025
Vladislav Mortenson had been undead for three centuries, plenty of time to develop some very unhealthy habits. Not the blood-drinking—that was biological necessity.
AIOctober 21, 2025
Crystalline alien AI entity floating above Earth, connected by thousands of glowing threads to humans below, with red dwarf star in background. Sci-fi digital art.
AmbiguityOctober 19, 2025
Lost glasses. Missing toys. One detective dog. One insufferable cat. A suburban mystery comedy told entirely from the Golden Retriever's point of view.
Book ReviewsOctober 13, 2024
Most usage guides are dry; this one is the exception. A Washington Post copy chief brings an opinionated, funny voice and a working editor's judgment to the tricky cases the stylebooks dodge. Opinionated instead of authoritative, a complement to a…
Book ReviewsOctober 13, 2024
Comedy is the hardest thing to teach and the easiest to fake teaching, which makes this genuinely unusual: it takes humor apart and shows the mechanism, via the THREES formula and the rule of three. A useful diagnostic toolkit, though…
Author TalksAugust 31, 2023
Touring comedian Deece Casillas joins Author Talks to discuss the grind of stand-up, self-publishing, his debut comic book, and just doing it.
Character DevelopmentNovember 11, 2018
Horror 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.
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