Writers love to write. They have to because if they didn’t love the process, the rest would just be too damned disappointing. Writers also love to write about writing. Over the years, I’ve read many essays on writing – Annie Dillard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Simon, Stephen King, Daphne DuMaurier, Pearl Buck, Bob Bausch, and many [...]

It’s been eighteen months since I began my great experiment @ Amazon as an Indie author. In fact, my debut month coincided with the receipt of my first social security check. Both auspicious events that I hope will continue.
During that time I’ve seen the Kindle publishing experiment explode in popularity with both readers and authors. [...]

I’ll be on a panel at AWP in February (2012) so I’ve created this little handout for whoever attends. I thought I’d share it with others who won’t be there. It’s a list of the reasons I had for becoming an Indie author. And then a list of the reasons I came up with against [...]

Here are a few questions readers have asked about The Naked Gardener

How did you come up with the idea of a naked gardener?
A: At a certain point in my life, I knew three women who gardened naked. They all had different takes on why they did it but all of them felt it was really [...]