What Happens When You Burn Moby-Dick

I don’t know if you’ve noticed this but… we live in a world that increasingly and exhaustively thrives on false dichotomies and divisions. If you don’t like something it is automatically “bad.” Or if you happen to like something someone else doesn’t, you get chewed out. Everyone has to be right; everyone else is wrong. […]

Three Reasons You’ll Love The Stranger From Berlin

Some news for you! My good friend, Melissa Amateis, has published her first novel. She is a World War II scholar and writer, and The Stranger from Berlin is out on Amazon Kindle. It is the story of Jenni, a Nebraska war widow, and Max, a history professor from Germany, who find themselves entangled in […]

August Reads

Since finishing the novel (sorry – that’s all I seem to talk about these days), I’ve actually been… reading other people’s books! What?! It’s only natural after months in the editing desert. The brain is thirsty. Here’s what I turned to, in no particular order. The Paradise War by Stephen Lawhead Genre: Fantasy. It was […]

A Life With Star Wars

Star Wars has returned full-Force. Even if you’re not a fan of the saga, you’d be hard-pressed to miss the hubbub: swag and toys, posters, t-shirts, action figures, and just about anything you can think of just in time for Christmas… which says more about the evil genius of Disney marketing than it does about the season […]