Writing

This is such a wonderfully exciting and anxiety provoking time. Waiting for the first reviews. The first ones to come in are usually the “endorsements.” It’s standard practice for publishers/writers to approach a few authors in advance and ask them […]

It’s about three months until The Family Way comes out. In a normal year, this is when I’d begin to plan the launch. For Pluto, I went all out. I spent months trying to find the perfect venue. Initially, I […]

When it looked like The Geography of Pluto was going out-of-print last December, I panicked. Was that it for this little book that I had given so much of my life to? Even though it continued to steadily sell copies […]

After writing The Geography of Pluto, there were two projects vying for my attention. One of the voices was for what would become The Family Way. It was louder and more insistent than the other, so it won me over […]

Like many writers, I listen to music when I write. Nothing with (intelligible) lyrics, of course. I wrote most of The Geography of Pluto lost in the fuzz and noise of shoegaze bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine, or […]

My next book, The Family Way is scheduled to come out in spring 2021 from Véhicule Press. I am knee deep in final edits, but at least we now know what it will be called. The book has had many […]