A show, and heading into November!

An evening of book-related improvI had a really great time at my one-of-a-kind mystery book improv show at The Idiot Box, the comedy club where I've been performing for the past 20 years. There was a great audience, and we did a lot of fun and funny...

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Nov 02, 2025
Comicon plus news on the new romance novel

Comicon Greensboro!I had the opportunity to go to Big Lick Comicon in my hometown, Greensboro NC, on October 4th and 5th. I shared a booth (see above) with Mike Mollman, who's a fantasy and sci fi author, and who runs a popular YouTube show for indie...

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Oct 16, 2025
Kenai is free if you act fast

Kenai is free!Kenai, my award-winning space opera story, is free as an ebook until Friday. If you haven't read about Jess and the mysterious world of Kenai, please have a copy on me and enjoy! Here's a universal link to grab it no matter where you ar...

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Oct 02, 2025
The Expanding Universe is out

The Expanding UniverseI have a story in a newly-released military sci-fi anthology, The Expanding Universe: Volume 11. This is part of a long-running sci fi series hosted by Craig Martelle, a well-known sci fi author and indie publishing guru an...

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Sep 16, 2025
Unwelcome Matt is here!

Unwelcome Matt is here!I'm so pleased to share my latest book, Unwelcome Matt, released on August 25. It's a contemporary mystery set in central North Carolina, like my other two mysteries, Got Trouble and What Grows From the Dead. It's available in...

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Sep 02, 2025
Review of Red Eye (limited series, BBC)

Red Eye (from the BBC, on Hulu) was a bit of a mess. I’m always a sucker for airplane action shows, but they work better as movies, because there’s just no way to sustain tension on a plane for more than a couple hours. Last year’s Hijack (AppleTV) w...

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Aug 25, 2025
Ideas for an indie author progress database

Over the last couple months, I’ve been thinking about doing something to try to give indie authors a chance to see how they’re doing relative to others. It’s always interesting to me that indies are exponential. By that, I mean I look around the indi...

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Aug 19, 2025
SPSFC#4 Finalist Review: Bisection by Sheila Jenné

This is my second new review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the final round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Bisection by Sheila Jenn...

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Jul 27, 2025
SPSFC#4 Finalist Review: On Impulse by Heather Texle

This is my first new review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the final round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is On Impulse by Heather Tex...

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Jul 16, 2025
My Indie Author Business Report for May 2025

May was a pretty good month. I had a BookBub Featured Deal for Daros on April 30th, with the book continuing free for five days, and that netted 10,081 downloads the first day and 14,341 over the five day promo. That’s a lot of books in people’s Kind...

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Jun 06, 2025
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

I saw the latest (and last) Mission Impossible today. I think the guy snoring three rows behind me for most of the length of the movie probably got more out of it. There were a few cool fights, although they were generally in quick cuts close up rath...

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May 24, 2025
Sinners

Sinners is a great movie, with terrific music, acting, dancing, and camera work. I suspect it will get a bunch of Oscar nominations, which would be somewhat unusual for a movie released early in the year. It’s one of those interesting horror movies w...

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May 21, 2025
SPSFC#4 Semifinalist Review: Eat by Jesse Brown

This is my second review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the semifinal round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Eat by Jesse Brown, some...

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May 14, 2025