The Art of Storytelling

The Ogre Prince, a young adult fantasy, is the first novel I published. Written for my three children, when they were in their early...

Last time, I wrote about what was behind Forgiveness. Let me assure you, Retribution is the exact opposite of forgiveness, although it...

People frequently ask 'How do you come up with your stories?' I've written before about how I start with an image and draft a book from...

Red likes to sleep under my writing desk. He spends way more time there than I do. Truthfully, the desk is a space of refuge for both of...

People often ask me how I come up with the ideas for books. I always tell them the same thing: I start with an image in my head, often...

Those were the last words my dad, Dick Smith, said to me before he passed. He had been dealing with dementia for a number of years, his...

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"Jefferson’s portrayal of these complex emotions is breathtaking, his story insightful and moving. You might shed a tear or two, but the...

This is the first face I see every morning. As soon as the alarm rings Poppy is on my chest, staring down at me, telling me "Get the hell...

Says the man who has spent the last week avoiding anything related to work on my latest project The Devil's Interval. A couple of weeks...

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The other day I was editing a document in a zoom meeting while on shared screens as a work group prepared for a presentation. I was...

Someone much smarter and more articulate than me once said "Writing is re-writing." Someone else said "Revising is drudgery." (Okay, that...

I just finished the first draft of my next project, The Devil's Interval, and I need to celebrate. Hallelujah! There that's done. The...

I usually get up at 4am during the week. This is when I write, a habit I acquired when my three children still lived at home and it was...

My daily commute is about sixteen miles each way, much of it over rural country lanes, with only the last few miles in a more suburban or...