After the release of my first book, Chasing Clovers I knew there would be another book and another and another I’d write. This was just the beginning of years and years of jotting down short stories, poems and writing articles and I was ready to jump into the writing world. Once the promotion and marketing…
I always wanted to be a writer. I always had these great ideas, (or at least so I thought) that would make fantastic stories. But this is all was a lot easier said than done. For one, where would I get the time? Between work and caring for my daughter, there was very little time…
————————————————————— ABOUT WHY I DON’T LOSE WEIGHT Why I Don’t Lose Weight is a unique perspective to the battle of the bulge. Dr. A gets to the heart of the struggle with weight loss by identifying the root causes that keep you in a cycle of overeating; he then gives practical solutions for overcoming…
Where do best-selling authors and lesser-knowns gather? In one place: The Horror Zine. Begun in 2009 as a monthly online magazine, The Horror Zine has morphed into an award-winning publication that receives over 30,000 hits a week. But it didn’t start that way. Founder Jeani Rector is a writer herself, and she would submit her…
Creating an imaginary world generally involves some research, and Black Water was no exception. Pat Tierney, its protagonist, is a financial advisor and I am not, although my work as a business journalist has given me a working knowledge of her business world. I interview financial advisors and investment managers for my articles, and I…
I’ve spent a great deal of my life with a pack on my back traipsing through the world’s mountains. Stories always ran around in my head on those trips, since everyone hikes/climbs at their own pace, backcountry trips equate to long hours of solitude. Toward the end of 2008, I came back from a Labor…
I couldn’t tell you exactly why, but I’ve been intrigued by stories of religious persecution since I was a teenager. I won’t argue with you if you come back and tell me that it’s morbid, but I’m encouraged by accounts of people who remain faithful in the face of intense opposition. I think for a…
In college, I hung out with a group of young people who were also aspiring artists; we’d hang out late into the evening, a bunch of little pseudophilosophers who were going to save the whole wide world with art. One evening, one of my friends brought over a paper they’d been assigned to read in…
The idea for my first book really hit me out of the blue, and I’m convinced it came from the Lord as a gift. He told me to write, so I sat down and wrote and wrote. Sometimes I would get through twenty pages and feel like someone else was writing for me. It was…
ABOUT COMING THROUGH THE FOG A mother tells the journey of her daughter’s recovery from Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder to Functioning Recovery and independent living, giving tips to parents on how to navigate the medical and educational domain. This story is an example of the unique obstacles facing a parent raising…
The Story Behind the Book 