Author Stacey Cochran has recently started an online tv interview show on UStream called BookChatter. This Friday at 11pm (EDT), like last Friday, I’ll be a panelist - along with Holly Christine - as Stacey interviews Jamie Lynn Braziel and Sam Landstrom. The big difference this week will be that I’ll attempt a video hookup, so I won’t be able [...]

I recently held a t-shirt designing contest on my blog in which readers could suggest, and later vote on, their favorite quotes from my novel, Waiting For Spring, that they thought would be appropriate t-shirt fodder. The result was announced yesterday, August 17, and today the t-shirt is available to purchase from the Backword Books [...]

Back in high school, I was friends with a girl who’d read James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. She even claimed to have enjoyed it. She did me the great honor of letting me borrow her copy of it after learning I’d recently become enamored of W.B. Yeats. I gave it an honest go, but tossed it [...]

Tonight at 8:30 EDT I’ll be appearing on JJ Talk Radio with Dawson Vosburg and Stacey Cochran. We’ll be discussing my novel, Waiting For Spring, ebooks, marketing, the publishing industry, and writing in general. Listeners, especially those who have read Waiting For Spring, are heartily encouraged to call in with questions during the hour.
In the meantime, [...]

The following post first appeared on my personal blog on June 27, 2008, shortly after my family and I took a trip to Washington DC, where we visited the U.S. Holcaust Memorial Museum; nearly a year before the recent tragic shooting there.
When you step inside the United States Holcaust Museum, you can’t help but be [...]

There is a large segment of the population who LOVE listening to audiobooks. Since I believe very strongly in making my work available in as many formats as possible, and since I had the house to myself most of the day on Wednesday, I decided it would be a good time to start recording the [...]