The lost place In order to finish the first version of the second book of my Trier series I had to start the third. There’s a lot going on in that one short sentence, not the least of which is that it sounds like the start of a word problem from high school …
Happy Everyone now and then I think about revising my first novel, Tripio. I’m guessing that I am not alone in this, especially on one’s first novel. When I actually voiced this over a phone call to my book producer, who I worked with on the Trier, his response was that a lot of …
With the overwhelming amount of information available to us, we are more reliant than ever on categorization, labels and shortcuts- these can bring us a sense of security in shrinking the world to make it more manageable- A writer does not value safety or sameness. A label This quote from Rick Rubin has been …
Author Directed I have been committed to self-publishing, author directed publishing, or whatever you may call it for a while now. I can pinpoint it to the day I took a Basics of Self-Publishing class at the IWC, taught by YA author Robert Kent. November 4th, 2018. In that time, I have posted …
Many an independent coffee house features a Kaldi’s Blend. If you asked ten different baristas what was in the Kaldi’s Blend you would most likely get ten different responses. It may be a blend of any two varietals. There may be a third in for fun. Is it any wonder? I roasted a few …
A coffee memoir For me, there was a lot to like about Annabel Townsend’s book, Ten Years of Misadventures is Coffee. I found so much of it familiar. Her memoir covers the years of her life that pretty much match the years of my life in my historical fiction novel, Tripio. The …
My Coffee Home I am out here now. It is dark, before dawn but everything is the photo above is there, expect me of course. I am enjoying my coffee and writing a bit out the front porch of my coffee home. Look at that. I have it made. I appreciate every second that …
Coffee Novelist 
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