Greetings, friend. Wow! April flew by quickly, didn’t it? I hope it was a good month for you. I can’t believe it’s May already. And tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo! Time to slice up a lime, crack open a Corona (I mean the beer brand; NOT the virus), and pr...

Fellow author Huckleberry Rahr and yours truly hitched a ride on an obliging green dragon to Menomonie, Wisconsin, where Ann Vogl, Chief Dragon-rider, holds down the fort at a lovely independent bookstore called Dragon Tale Books. Intermittent rainfa...

That sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn’t it? A pixie and an ogre walk into a bookstore… However, you were probably expecting me to make a joke about a bar. As a matter of fact, I planned to tell you about a bar – AND a bookstore – in Sheboyg...

Have you ever felt like time was slipping away too quickly? It reminds me of the refrain from a ‘70s song by Steve Miller, “Fly Like an Eagle.” The older I get, the more these lyrics resonate. I blink, and an entire week has passed. I wake up one mor...

Hello, friend! Welcome to February, the shortest month of the year… which also happens to be my birth month.   As promised, I’ve delivered a piece of silly flash fiction. Fair warning: it’s pretty weird. But all fantasy writers (and readers) should b...

Hello, friend. Are you a writer, or ever considered becoming one? If you’re like me, you have tons of shiny new story ideas you’d love to write about, but then struggle to complete a project before another idea distracts you. Or perhaps you have the...

How are your New Year’s resolutions going? Ooops, sorry. Not resolutions. GOALS. What I meant to ask is: Are you making progress with your 2023 goals? I hope things are going well for you. I’m keeping busy. I even did something bookish this weekend....