My life belongs to the whole community
Hello, friends! A brief newsletter today, as I'm behind on several projects and generally a little scattered right now. Felicia shared something with me last...
🚀The Dark Age: Let us make haste!
Hello, friends! In the last two Dark Age letters, I shared parts one and two of the ongoing manuscript's prologue. Today, the third and final part. As with...
🚀The Dark Age: We all jumped
Hello, friends! Hope that you enjoyed last week's excerpt from my ongoing work-in-progress. I mentioned that it was the first of a three-part prologue, and...
Where the writing begins
Hi, friends! As I write this, we're emerging from a snowstorm that socked us in for the better part of a week. It's gray and misty outside, finally warm...
🚀The Dark Age: Apple-cheeked and ferocious
Hello, friends! This week our family was snowed-in during a bit of a storm. As we live at the top of a steep hill, we were unable to leave the house even as...
Laying the bricks for a good year
Hello, friends — Welcome to 2024! Naturally, I'm starting the year by being a bit late with this week's newsletter. But: The newsletter is here. So maybe...
🚀The Dark Age: Little baby robots
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2023: Favorite reads of the year
Hello, friends! In 2022, I read 98 books. 2023, for so many reasons, has been a speedbump and roller coaster of a year, resulting in far fewer books...
🚀The Dark Age: Good paper and a solid pencil
Hello, friends! I'm a couple of days late with this letter. I hope you don't mind! I've been preparing all week for a short vacation, making sure things are...
Leave it all on the page
Hi, friends! Last August, I shared a bit about the notes James Salter left himself when writing a book. (You can find that newsletter here.) One of those...
🚀The Dark Age: The original middle English
Hello, friends! One of my favorite scenes in The West Wing is an innocuous little moment with Donna Moss. If you've seen the show, you know Donna: She's...
🚀The Dark Age: The original middle English
Hello, friends!
Hope is hard
Hello, friends! I am a little behind this week. That's what happens, I think, when I'm on vacation from my job. All the schedules get wonky. I don't think...
🚀The Dark Age: Philip wakes up
Hello, friends! A little treat today: An excerpt from the currently-in-progress fourth draft of *The Dark Age*! This is Philip's first log entry after waking...
Fresh coat of paint
Hello, friends! While recuperating this weekend from a minor (but totally scary, in that I-know-I-know-this-is-totally-harmless-but-STILL!!! kind of way),...
🚀The Dark Age: Shining it up
Hello, friends! Once upon a time, some of you may know, I did quite a lot of book cover design. All of my independently-published books bear my own designs...
A flight of waffles
Hello, friends! I'm bringing back the illustrated newsletter today (mostly so I can thoroughly experiment with the dip pens and ink Felicia recently gave...
🚀The Dark Age: The business of not writing
Hello, friends. Little progress on the book during the past two weeks. Just as our home was recovering from its first bout with COVID, I came down with a...
Writers and their little essentials
Hello, friends! Once again, time is at a premium around here, so this week I'm running another one from the archives. This is one of my favorites, Letters...
🚀The Dark Age: Peaks and valleys
Hello, friends! Though I've kept up with the newsletters, it feels a little like I'm emerging from a dark age of my own right now. Time after time this year,...