Part II There are some books you wish would never end (and in fact one reviewer of Bridge Across the Ocean wrote those same words) and some books you just can’t wait until they end. You finish reading them out of respect for the author but keep fanning the remaining pages, wishing they would hurry […]
2020: I work with my associate editor to get Bridge Across the Ocean, my upcoming novel, down from over 115,000 to around 85,000 words. We also start working on a collection of my short stories—stay tuned for that!
2019: The long-anticipated Anarchy, third in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers trilogy, finally sees print, along with our very first Fictional Café anthology. And to top it off, I start a major edit of a treasured unpublished manuscript, Bridge Across the Ocean.
2018: In preparation for the third installment of my literary trilogy, I republish the first, Wild Blue Yonder, with new cover art and revisions.
I start releasing new content on my website regularly via two blogs, a book (and sometimes film) review and a place to share my random thoughts and reflections, My Brain on Grape-Nuts.
I begin writing my first literary novel, Wild Blue Yonder. It undergoes seven revisions over four years. By this time self-publishing is catching fire, and I decide to forego the usual agent route and try out the new publishing technology. It comes out in 2011 and sells like crazy on Amazon.