From where I sit

Pull up a chair. This is where I talk — about the writing, the life, the Gulf Coast, the hard days and the good ones. No press releases, no polish. Just me, being honest with you the way I'd be honest with a friend. Glad you're here.

 

Where the Stories Actually Come From

 

 

It's not pretty. It's 2am and a character just told me something I wasn't expecting. It's the scene I cut that I'm still not sure I should have. It's the mess before the manuscript. That's what you get here.

The Stone Remembers Everything. My Beta Reader Does Too.

May 12, 2026 3:55 PM

There is a character in my upcoming novel who has existed for over three hundred years. He has survived the Shattering of the world. He has watched civilizations rise and collapse. He has catalogued wars, famines, political upheavals, and the slow erosion of things that were once considered permanent. He carries a journal. He is made of stone. He does not have feelings about any of this — or so he would like you to believe. His name is Reaper.He is the narrator of The Chronicles of Reaper: Book One — The First Stroke of Red Ink.And last week, my beta reader dunked him in a lake.

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 Life Outside the Pages

The bay, the canner, the homestead, the dog. This is the life that fills the words. I'll share it when I feel like it — because some days that's just as important as anything else.

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