________________________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...