Edmonton 1985-2014 Thirty Fabulous Festivals

This 40 Year Veteran Street Act Scuffing Up the First Audience of the Day Saturday morning 11:30 show was mine to do. Alan Plotkin using a telephoto lens from “World Headquarters” took this shot. He didn’t bring me much luck the day before and discretion being the better part of valor stood off so […]

The Old West is Waiting

stealhead, river running, and hay farming as far as an eye can see The dirt road winds down the mountain into Troy, Oregon on the Grande Ronde River. Size of community is a mere handful of good souls. Groceries fetched by driving 50 miles north to Lewiston, Idaho. The outpost captures my interiors yearning […]

Book Expo America

I am here in New York for the Expo. I have noted that Hachette Book Group has crossed swords with Amazon. A fight has broken out and it seems Amazon is putting a hold on Hachette’s Books because a royalty dispute. Nasty bit of business this industry is involved in. Seems JK Rowling’s new title […]

Writing Comedy…

It is all in the words… After working on three novels, some 340,000 words, work that spans seven years, I’m trying to distill the essence into one hour. Someone has to do it. I spend seven years working on three novels and a reader will be done with all three in 30 hours, more or […]

Let that Sink In

Two Times as Much Fun We do not come into this world. We come out of the world like a leaf from a tree. I like that. We are not part of the world we are of this world. We belong. Writing long fiction is based upon everything that might be part of what […]

In the Love shack

Where Lover’s Go… Everybody has had their eyes wide open. I knew since I was drifting the high plains town to town that we were a country in flux. That was in the ‘70’s when drifting from show to show was what a young up and coming juggling act did. I’ve seen the belly […]

Trouble in Nevada

Hot Spring Honeymoon Just Enough Trouble to Call it Fun Life imitates art. The recent standoff between the Bureau of Land Management and Clive Bundy is a more radicalized version of the politics I hinted at in Hot Spring Honeymoon. The free grazer movement depends upon more magical thinking than my character Garrett Harwood. My […]

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Walking into the New Year

Hawaii for the last two weeks. Editing and organizing all sorts of various details to this journey in publishing and authoring. Here a steep footpath up the side of a North Shore O’ahu trail for purposes of self-revival. Hot Spring Honeymoon’s manuscript is on schedule. We’ve been working on three elements: first physical descriptions of […]