A couple of months ago I agreed to speak with a local PFLAG LGBTQ youth group. At the time it was safely at a good distance. But now, as it gets closer and closer, I’m starting to get anxious. What…
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Great YA Literature
What I wouldn’t have given to have even a few of the incredible young adult, coming of age, coming out books available when I was a teenager. When I was a teen, the only thing there was to read was…
Review of Go West, Young Man
Rainbow Book Reviews has published a review of my second book, Go West, Young Man, the second book in my trilogy about The Most Popular Guy in the School. For generations, American have believed in going west to find new…
Rainbow Book Review of Don’t Judge
I’m so excited! Rainbow Book Reviews just reviewed the first book in my trilogy The Most Popular Guy in the School. They liked my book, Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover! I’m going to quote a bit from the…
Library Editions
While I’m not entirely sure what it is, I now have all three of my books in The Most Popular Guy in the School series available in three editions: e-book, paperback, and now Library Edition. Like I said, I’m not…
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End of the Innocence by John Goode
The following is an email I sent to John Goode after finishing his newest book, End of the Innocence. For those who don’t know about the series, you really should. This book is Book 2 in Goode’s Tales from Foster…
Editing
There is nothing like spending a week going through an editor’s comments on a book manuscript to make you feel like you have no business being a writer. Taking a step back, I have to say that a lot of…
Reviews
I really need to stop reading reader reviews. A series of really positive reviews had sort of lulled me into a false sense of security. And then, when my guard was down, someone wrote a negative review of Don’t Judge…
Reviews
Some reviews can be so difficult to read, but I’ve been getting some wonderful comments on Amazon.com from readers on The Most Popular Guy in the School series. The most recent from October 21st reads: “A touching and captivating story,…
Most Popular
Recently I purchased some great graphics from Shutterstock to depict the concept of popularity concept for my series The Most Popular Guy in the School. Here is the first of those (others will follow over time):