10 Things I’ve Learned About Being a Novelist

  It has been a year and a half since I started this blog, and I thought I would write a retrospective about some of the things I have learned about writing novels and the publishing industry in general that would be some good knowledge for people just starting out.  This post is intended for

The Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon

On April 19th, 1995 Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck in front of the Edward R. Murrow Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City and ended the lives of 168 people, forever changing the landscape of our city.  Each year marathon runners from all over the world come to race in the Memorial Marathon. It has

Landing An Agent: The Steps Taken

By God’s blessing I have an agent who is going to pitch my book to a couple of publishing houses (small ones, because you have to start somewhere), but this kind of stuff doesn’t happen overnight, and I have been on a long winding road to this point in my writing career.  I decided to

Youthful Dreams: A Writer’s Journey Over 25 Years

I started writing short stories and poetry in 10th grade.  The reason, in the beginning, was simple: wooing women.  Of course, none of the poems I wrote ever ended up in the hands of any girls, but I soldiered on, and my sophomore year began with a creative writing class where we were not really