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Weekly Update - January 21, 2025

Another slow week, but that’s okay because things are really taking off in another area of my creative life. Longtime followers likely know that in addition to writing, my other creative passion is stage combat. I’ve been a stage fighter for 23 years now (let me take a moment to collapse into a pile of dust and bone fragments), and over the past three years I’ve been teaching stage combat at the…

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The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - A Series Overview

What’s it About? Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts. David is a…

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Weekly Update - January 14, 2025

Another slow week this week. I’m working on one more pre-edit pass on the second Legacies novel, then getting back to work on the ninth Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot book. I also expect final cover art for The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour any day now, which means an official release date will follow shortly. WRITING PROJECTS Action Figures – Legacies: Edited, awaiting cover art. Set…

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Action Figures - A Series Overview

What’s it About? The series focuses on Carrie Hauser, a 15-year-old girl who one summer experiences two life-changing events: her parents announce they’re getting divorced, and she gains superhuman abilities after encountering a dying extraterrestrial after he falls to Earth. Her adventure begins after Carrie and her mother Christina move back to Christina’s childhood home town of Kingsport,…

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Weekly Update - January 7, 2025

Happy New Year, all. Slow week this week. Just working on final revisions here and first drafts there. Hopefully I’ll have a release date for The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour for you soon. WRITING PROJECTS Action Figures – Legacies: Edited, awaiting cover art. Set for release in early 2025. Action Figures – Untitled sequel to Legacies – Second draft completed. The Adventures of Strongarm…

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Station Identification Time

Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica, two dogs, and three cats who don’t like to let me sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing. In addition to my novels (more on that in a…

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Weekly Update - December 31, 2024

Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone. I’ll keep this quick seeing as you all have plans for tonight — even if those plans, like mine, involve sitting at home and going to bed at a reasonable hour. I spent yesterday working on formatting, the most tedious part of the process, but that’s now out of the way and both The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour and Action Figures – Legacies are in the pipeline…

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Well-Behaved Women - A Series Overview

What’s it About? Rose Booker remembers how she died. Both times. Rose’s pursuit of the truth behind those memories leads her to discover that she was in a past life the legendary pirate queen Mary Read — and that she’s not the only infamous historical figure who has returned from the dead. Who is this Series For? Well-Behaved Women is an urban fantasy trilogy featuring a predominantly female…

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Weekly Update - December 24, 2024

Happy Christmas Eve, to those who celebrate, and happy day-before-a-paid-day-off to those who don’t (like me; I’m a Halloween man). The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour is close to completion! It’s fully edited and just awaiting formatting, and Tricia is plugging away at some very groovy cover art heavily reminiscent of the 60s Psychedelic Era. The novella is tentatively set for a late January…

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The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - A Series Overview

What’s it About? Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts. David is a…

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Weekly Update - December 10, 2024

It was a productive long weekend for me, and two more projects are one step closer to completion. First, the newest draft of The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot — which I think is going to have the subtitle of A Wanton Criminal — is done and that book is ready for editing. Next, I got my editor’s notes back on The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour, so that’s in the formatting and…

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Action Figures - A Series Overview

What’s it About? The series focuses on Carrie Hauser, a 15-year-old girl who one summer experiences two life-changing events: her parents announce they’re getting divorced, and she gains superhuman abilities after encountering a dying extraterrestrial after he falls to Earth. Her adventure begins after Carrie and her mother Christina move back to Christina’s childhood home town of Kingsport,…

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Weekly Update - December 10, 2024

Bit of a slowish week this week. My main project is the next draft of book eight in the Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot series, which is moving along well. At this point, it’s mostly about tightening up the text and making sure all the story points line up as intended. After that, I’m likely going to work on draft three of the second Legacies book, and once that’s done, get back to work on…

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Station Identification Time

Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica, two dogs, and four cats who don’t like to let us sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing. In addition to my novels (more on that in a…

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Weekly Update - December 3, 2024

Last week was pretty busy for me. The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour is off to the editor, Action Figures – Legacies got its final round of revisions, and the next book in The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot series is starting its final revisions this week. My goal for 2025 is to release all three over the course of the year, though the precise scheduling will depend on my covert artist’s…

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Well-Behaved Women - A Series Overview

What’s it About? Rose Booker remembers how she died. Both times. Rose’s pursuit of the truth behind those memories leads her to discover that she was in a past life the legendary pirate queen Mary Read — and that she’s not the only infamous historical figure who has returned from the dead. Who is this Series For? Well-Behaved Women is an urban fantasy trilogy featuring a predominantly female…

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Weekly Update - November 19, 2024

First, quickly, The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour, is heading out for editing. If my timeline holds, I’ll have the edited manuscript back by the end of the year, and then it’ll be a matter of getting the cover art done, and my artist Tricia is already brainstorming ideas for that. Now, onto a topic that may be of interest to other writers out there, and maybe to readers as well, and that…