Category: Musings

  • This Day

    The hardest thing about being a writer is making good use of your time.Time is a writer’s most precious commodity, after imagination—and maybe even before.For it is in the conservation and consolidation creating an abundance of time, that our imaginations percolate. I would imagine this is the way it is for all artists. Yet for…

  • Art and Money

    Three nights ago I did a reading at a local bookstore. There were four other authors with me. We all read from our books and then, after answering a few questions, signed copies of our books for both the store and those who came to hear us read and had or did purchase copies of…

  • The Writer and Human Tragedy

    How does the writer respond in the face of human tragedy such as with the recent Utah Mining Disaster? Or in the aftermath of the human devastation left by Hurricane Katrina? Memories of that fateful day of September 11th, 2001 still loom over us. What do we do? What can we as artists faithful to…

  • Against the Grain and Into the Wild

    Yesterday, at the suggestion of my internet publicist, I released a book into the wild. I did it through using the website, bookcrossings.com. Basically you register with bookcrossings.com as you would with facebook.com or myspace.com. Once a member you give the title of the book you are going to release, and the name of where…