Searching For Our Better Personal Stories

It was Gaiman who said: “Stories are ways that we communicate important things, but … stories maybe really are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.” So I find it perfect in a way that my novel Ink Calls to Ink is being compared to Gaiman. He is a big […]

Disability in Ink Calls to Ink

The publisher of Ink Calls to Ink has folders of stock photos for their authors to use in creating promotional materials. They have a pretty amazing selection to work from and they’ve done a great job curating it. But in creating character intro posters to seed the launch event on Facebook, something dawned on me. […]

The Influences and Back Pages of Ink Calls to Ink

It all started with Mary Poppins. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Put a pin in that. We’ll be back around. My dad was a librarian. More than that, he was librarian whose real passion (other than books) was Existentialism, notably Jean Paul Sartre. But it’s hard to pay the bills with philosophy so he got […]

Publication News and Brews from Beyond

My dad was always one of the biggest supporters of my writing. A librarian and dedicated student of existentialist philosophy to the bitter end, he read pretty much everything I ever wrote. He always encouraged me to keep writing, keep working on my craft, and more importantly to believe in my passion. Trust me. This […]