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Just as Madge had packed a bag and started out after Hal, that night after the theatre, Jane went home and packed her only two suitcases, resolving to uproot her reality and start out in search of her dream. She’d decided only to unpack when she’d finally left the...

 As anybody that has been following this over the couple of months knows, I am slowly….okay *very* slowly….making my way through reviewing this summer’s tent pole movies. Most of these I’m doing long after seeing them on the big screen, so you’ll have to forgive in...

Truth be told, this was all her grandmother’s fault. Five months before, she was living the life she was supposed to be in Brooklyn. At the time, an argument could have been made that it wasn’t much of a life at all. Up at dawn every day, fighting the morning foot...

People often ask me if I have any advice to new writers, to which my response is always one of three things. First...seek out books such as Stephen King's On Writing or even The Elements of Style. They are far greater resources than anything I could ever hope to...

It's a pretty well known fact that there exist two types of writers. Well....there are actually an infinite number, but for our purposes here, let's just say two -- storytellers, and those who are in love w/ the language. Think, genre vs literary.Now for me, it is no...

Anybody that knows me even a little knows that I am a HUH-YUUUUUGE Oklahoma Sooners and New England Patriots fan. Enormous. It really can't be overstated enough. To the point that I have already warned my new neighbors that any yelling they hear for the next three...

Some time ago I started my look at the summer blockbuster movies, realizing full well that “summer” movie season has bled into the start of April the last two years (Capt America 2 and Fast and Furious 7, respectively). As such, it makes for what can be a long, drawn...

For those that only know the current iteration of me, once upon a time I was a college football player. Actually, check that, I was a college offensive lineman.If unfamiliar w/ the individual positions on the field, allow me to explain it thus: Nobody will ever, ever...

Anybody at all that is familiar w/ this website...or my books...or even me in general knows that one of the few things in the world I adore unapologetically are English bulldogs. We grew up w/ at least one in the house at all times, my mama ran a kennel raising them...

As some of you may have noticed, and most anybody that knows me will attest, there are few things I hate more than the 'marketing' side of being a writer. By and large I believe many of us see ourselves as storytellers, meaning we prefer our role to be largely...

One of the things that makes my daily life so enjoyable is the *colorful* cast of characters that populate it. More than once some aspect of my wild and zany friends/family has made it into my writing, which is meant entirely to be a sign of endearment and nothing...

Perhaps overshadowed this week by the release of a bajillion (rough estimate) new trailers for comic book movies coming on the heels of Comic-Con was the release of the first trailer for The Revenant, a movie brought to the world by the Hollywood Cerberus of reigning...