_______________________Dear reader,Happy Belated National Library Week! My publicist/wife and I had the opportunity to support the Mountain Home Public Library by holding a signing and Q&A. We may or may not have been accompanied by some medieval...

______________________________Dear reader,A while back, I asked you guys about your preferred reading format. Nearly all of you answered that you would rather read physical books over digital formats.Well, I have great news!If you prefer the feeling...

_______________________Dear reader,Recently, my toddler discovered that The Last Unicorn is free on YouTube, and I am the proudest proud dad about. I don't even mind that the cheesy 80's ballads have been stuck in my head for three weeks straight.The...

________________________Dear reader,I'm currently sitting in an almost-empty English classroom. School is in session, and I have a lesson prepared, but less than a third of the normal number of kids are here. The rooms are barren. The hallways silent...

________________________Dear reader,I need your help settling a bet.Here's the context: the other day I got into a fight with one of my students. No, not that kind of a fight. Calm down. It was one of those "kid, I respect you, and you're totally ent...

___________________Dear reader,When life gets you down, what do you do? When it's a million degrees outside, and politics resemble the fall of the Roman republic, and that bloody thistle keeps growing back in the crack in your driveway no matter how...

_______________________Dear reader,As a nerdy author guy, I definitely spend a lot of time thinking about story structure. The Three Act Play, Freytag's Pyramid, the Hero's Journey: all of them live rent-free in my head pretty much 24/7.Of late, that...

____________________________Dear reader,Like most of you out there, I recently saw Dune: Part 2. But unlike most of you, I walked away with one, distinct, burning question on my mind...Why the heck doesn't fantasy have more megafauna?I mean, just thi...

_________________________Dear reader,As you know, it was Valentine's Day last week, and (like any self-respecting high school teacher) I did my darnedest to spoil the whole hormonal affair for my kids.We discussed its pagan roots to Roman Lupercalia...

___________________________Dear reader,Back in 2017, we here in the Treasure Valley were hit by a ferocious series of winter storms which we all lovingly dubbed "Snowmageddon" (or the "Snowpocalypse" if you were in Canyon County).With this year shapi...