Very quickly, I played hooky from work (writing) this morning and caught the 10am showing of EVIL DEAD, the remake of the Raimi classic. It’s a interesting mash-up of both EVIL DEAD and EVIL DEAD 2, with a few homages to both films. I won’t ruin any of that for…

GIVING REVIEWS I wrote a review the other day on Treasure Island, The Musical, and my Statcounter app tells me it’s been viewed a few times by someone who might’ve been upset by the review. I felt bad about that for a while, really, that my opinion might have upset…

I am an infrequent blogger because, I think, deep down, I’m apathetic about most current events. I’m getting older, and crotchety. I don’t have cable so all my television is through Netflix. And the cultural things I get excited/incensed about are mostly on the Internet, which is sad, really. Since…

I’m told that The Horn Book magazine is the most prestigious journal on literature for kids. So this review for THE TWELVE-FINGERED BOY made me happy – “It’s a monster of a world” for fifteen-year-old Shreve Cannon, incarcerated in Casimir Pulaski Juvenile Detention Center for Boys: “not quite prison. Not…

So, I had to write two mini-essays to apply to this fancy book publicity insider thingy and I thought, hey, if they reject me, I’ll still get a blog post out of it. That’s just how I do, ya know? WHY SHOULD OUR COMMUNITY BE INTERESTED IN YOUR BOOK? Adolescence…

It’s true. I’ve been straddling the fence. Hedging my bets, as it were. Last April, I left my job to pursue freelance visual work and focus more on writing. Over these last 10 months, there have been some up and down times, that’s for sure. During this period, it’s become…

BUY THE BOOK! Hiram Quincrux voiced by Dan O’Shea – http://danielboshea.wordpress.com/ Jack Graves voiced by Matthew Gephardt Jack Graves voice engineered by Drew Pickens Animation by the author  

On January 5th, my family and I were in Bozeman, Montana, visiting friends. It happened to be my birthday, so we borrowed our friend’s Toyota Sequoia, drove downtown, had a nice calm dinner. My wife and kids like to eat early (that means I’ve been conditioned to eat early), so…