If you’ve read my blog, you know I have a serial novel The Magician…. or perhaps you don’t. Anyway, in one week it will release as a paperback novel over on the Zon. But you can also sit and read it here on the blog, or listen to a few chapters as audio files read […]
Category: Reading and Writing
Stuff I’ve written about writing and reading in particular.
The Magician will be in paperback soon!
Magical friends, I have an announcement. Remember when I finished posting my serial novel The Magician here on this blog back in June? Well, in talking to some friends of mine who had not started to read it (because admittedly, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea to read fantasy as much as I would love […]
Chicago
Having a family history that spans pretty much one state (I’m looking at you, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!) and the Eastern Seaboard, I never really thought much about the city of Chicago. I read about it for my history classes. I learned facts that seemed to go in one ear and then out the other about […]
Following in my great-great-grandfather’s footsteps
I mentioned in a previous blog post about how I was working on a sequel to my serial novel, The Magician (which if you haven’t read it, you should.) I also mentioned that I was using the city of Philadelphia as the inspiration for this sequel, creating the fictional urban city of Lefteria. In doing […]
Family history becomes stories
If you follow my blog or any of my social media stuff, you’ll note that this past Saturday, I posted the final chapter of the serial novel I had been working on since November of 2022. The Magician is a twenty-five chapter urban fantasy serialization about an enslaved magician named Ignace Godding and a spirited […]
Postlude (The Magician – The Final Chapter)
This is the twentieth-fifth and FINAL chapter of the serialization novel I was working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. Postlude The gilded opera house was once again filled with spectators, buzzing with excitement and anticipation. The […]
Reconciliation (The Magician – Chapter Twenty-Four)
This is the twentieth-fourth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. Reconciliation Vanessa collapsed on the sidewalk, utterly spent from the tremendous amount of magic she had just exerted. […]
I tried.
I have tried my best to write a stunning blog post today about the sermon I watched online on Sunday. It’s in my drafts folder as we speak. But the words…. they just don’t seem to come well. Even I, who almost always has a constant monologue going in my head of things I should […]
Sometimes, you just feel like throwing in the towel
Thursdays are usually my days for writing what I call my “sermon reflections.” Those blog posts, often filed under “church topics,” are my takes on the sermons that are preached at the little church I attend in my tiny swath of the Midwest. But this past Sunday, while I attended church, I was also feeling […]
Treachery (The Magician – Chapter Twenty-Three)
This is the twenty-third chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. Treachery Swayed by the persuading of Evelyn to give Ignace a second chance, the collective Tamberlane, Rankin and […]