Picking up the pace

I found myself slowing down writing-wise over the past month or so. I tried blaming it on my day job, needing a break from writing, needing (but not getting) a vacation, the weather, my house being messy, my dogs… All of these were factors, but at the end of the day my reasons for why…

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Behind the Story: A Good and Honorable Thief

“A Good and Honorable Thief” is the third of three short stories in my short story collection A Little Bit of Love. I really enjoyed the historical research I did for my novel With Perfect Clarity, and when I decided to put out a small short story collection I thought why not set one in…

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Behind the story: “Learning to Sail”

“Learning to Sail” is the second of three short stories in my short story collection A Little Bit of Love. The impetus for this story came out of an assignment I did in Dean Wesley Smith’s Character Voice and Setting workshop in Lincoln City, Oregon. This workshop was the best writing workshop I’ve ever taken….