Is co-writing a novel with AI cheating, or just what being an author looks like now? I'm still working it out.

It turns out, though, if you're not in Indianapolis as a tourist trying to pack fun into every moment of every day, but instead go as someone who likes hanging out in new places and taking long walks and seeing what's around, it's a great place to spend a week.

"Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up." — C. S. Lewis

In which the author discusses his growing obsession with the outdoors and all the trash he finds there, plus recent books, movies, and shows.

Some of the stuff I've been watching and thinking about lately, both sublimely shallow and unsettlingly heavy... and the deep peace at the end of all things.

Greysuits promo, winter doldrums, and straw hat pirates.

First, I want to say thank you very much from the bottom, middle, and top of my heart for following along on my author journey. Second, if anyone has not read my SKYTRAILS series and wants to give it a go, I have two bits of news to help you out.

My current vibe is relaxed, gentle, slow stories, because that’s what I've been veering toward lately. Also I’ve been posting audiobook chapters on YouTube. I’m trying this out as another way of pulling in potential readers/listeners/watchers for my books.

I kept putting off last month's email because for a few weeks now I've been 'very close' to publishing paperback versions of the new trilogy. I'm going all out this time around...

On August 3rd, I finished the audio and final edits for the third book in the SKYTRAILS trilogy, Return Of Spirits Lost. Then we went on vacation.