Been thinking about the breakthroughs I had while writing Hell Chose Me. Nothing major, just the weird realization that I put a lot more of me into that book than I originally intended. Isn't that sort of the way it should work, though? We take what we love and embrace and the only way to … Continue reading Mix It

So HELL CHOSE ME is out today (you've bought a copy for you and all your family members, right...RIGHT?) and I'm going to do a little something new. Nobody ever reads acknowledgments, so here's the acknowledgments page of HELL CHOSE ME. I truly want to thank everyone that made this book real. The list of … Continue reading Gratitude

Sometimes a story doesn't necessarily start - it happens in the middle of everything else. In media res, we call that. So the setting - in media res: I'm on my phone listening to my mother ask me about my wedding and how it went. This is four months ago. My wedding was thirteen years … Continue reading In media res

I'm late this week on a blog post thanks to a flu/strep/ear infection that my kids decided would be awesome to make friends with. They're on the mend if you care about those things (I mean, who wouldn't? You some kind of asshole?) Anyway, that means they're controlling a lot of the media in the … Continue reading Everything isn’t for you