Here Be Monsters (Tyler Cunningham Book 1)
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Thunderstruck (Tyler Cunningham Book 4)
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Fair Play (Tyler Cunningham Shorts Book 2)
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Blog postI got back from my first residency in the MFA Program at Goddard ten days ago, and feel as though my involvement in the program is already contributing to my growth as a writer.
I've been writing and reading daily, and approaching both with a more critical eye. The things I learned working with my fellow students and the teachers at Goddard have already been helpful in pushing me to stretch beyond my comfort-zone.
My focus this semester is in short fiction, so I'm spendin -
Blog postI've started my first residency at Goddard College, in Plainfield, Vermont, in their MFA-Writing program.
My cohort of twenty students will get together, along with other cohorts and the faculty members to read and write, and to share what we read and write; also to attend workshops and lectures, and to design our individual courses of study for the coming semester, once the residency is at an end.
It's a creativity-rich environment, and after days spent talking ab -
Blog postI'm a father, a husband, a brother, a son, a friend, a writer, and, as always ... I'm a
It's been a year since my wife Gail accepted a position at Landmark College, and we kicked around the idea of me writing full-time. Since that miraculous set of life-changing talks for all of us our life has been busy and filled with change and adjustments and joy and love and smiles, and some stress.
I've written somewhere around a quarter of a million words, working on various projects. I' -
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Blog postTing
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The dogs and I watched the old farmer drill holes, tap spiles, then hang buckets this afternoon.
I was eager to go and ask: wasn't it early, how long to fill up, does he have to move them around on the tree.
Puck and Miles were eager to rush out stiff-legged, all barks and sniffing and peeing on stuff.
We didn't.
Later, after the old farmer had disappeared, we checke -
Blog postMy parents have fled the cold and winter storms of the Northeast for a week or two each year for the last dozen or so, and landed somewhere in Florida each time ... this year they invited me, knowing that I had the time and would probably enjoy writing outside in air that doesn't hurt my face.
I flew down the morning after a huge storm in New Hampshire, abandoning Gail and Puck and Miles to the elements, and JetBlued my way down to Fort Myers. The above shows me driving over a lovely cause -
Blog postI'm about ready to start typing.
I've been prepping for writing my next novel, "Oasis" for a while, and it's working. My head is full of story and characters and conflict and the world in which the story will take place.
There's a map of the world (more than one, actually), and some geo-biographies about all of the major and minor provinces. I know the twenty first and second tier characters pretty well. The arc of the story is planned out in some detail (I li -
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Blog postMerry Christmas, and glad tidings of whatever seasonal holidays you choose to observe, or celebrate, or ignore!
My favorite concept of giving at this time of year involves an Icelandic tradition:
Now that I've said my bit on that, without having to pronounce it, let's get to the point of this blog ....
Ben is on his Christmas break from school, and together we made a plan to return to our old stomping grounds to visit with friends, and do some skiing. I found what turned -
Blog postSince moving to New Hampshire at the end of July, I've been able to spend more time than ever working on my writing ... planning and crafting and writing and editing stories for what I had presumed was a collection of vignettes and shorts and novellas. I had also been working on a high-fantasy novel, Oasis, that I envision as the first installment in a trilogy about murder and intrigue in a magical world powered by blood. In addition to those two, I've also been doing a bit of work with prelimin
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Blog postBackstory
I had filed the experience away until a writer whose work and work ethic I admire greatly (Jonathan Maberry) posted on FB that he'd had his hand bitten by a dog, and, knowing how much he writes day to day, I replied that he should consider Google Voice Typing.
Having seen my reply, another writer got in touch and asked me some great questions about it, and when I'd answered his questions, it occurred to me that I should share my thoughts here.
Last year, -
Blog postMy son Ben and I drove up to the Adirondacks to spend a week with my parents at Camp. It was the first time in 20 years that they weren't essentially coming to visit me; the first time I didn't live up here, there, in the Adirondacks.
It felt bizarre driving through the woods that I know so well, but it not being my home. A year ago, I would have said that I'd always be here, always be an Adirondacker.
I think I will be ... the connection is too strong to severed by virtue of my mail -
Blog postSummer is racing by, and it occurs to me that I haven't posted to my blog in a while ... so here we go.
Big changes are afoot in my world. Thanks to decades of hard work on her part, and a fantastic job opportunity, my wife will soon be the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Landmark College, in Putney, Vermont. We're selling our house and moving to nearby Westmoreland, NH.
As a natural result of this change, I resigned from my teaching position of nearly 20 years wi -
Blog postThere is a long-standing history, or tradition, possibly even an expectation, of drug use among artists.
Mind-altering substances, and their use by artists in the creative process, are tolerated, sometimes celebrated, by the people who enjoy the art, and by the artists themselves.
I'm no less guilty of either side of that equation than the rest of the world. I have at times guiltily reveled in stories of the excesses of Ernest Hemingway or Dylan Thomas or Willie Nelson or Jacks -
Blog postWriting and Technology ....
There are lots of writers and workshops and retreats that push writing without technology and internet connectivity, or with minimal technology and connectivity ... I am not that kind of writer.
I love being connected, and making full and effective use of a world's worth of computing power at my fingertips, both in my laptop (a Chromebook, if you were wondering) and in my iPhone.
I keep lots of apps open and running all the time, downloading n -
Blog post{thankfully there are no rules about talking about book club}
I was recently invited to speak with a local book club about my first novel, Here Be Monsters, which they read for their March book. They all had enjoyed the book (which is always a good start) and had some great questions and observations about the story, the series, and maybe most importantly, about Tyler.
A couple of questions came up about why I chose to write the books through Tyler, and why (for the love of God) I wr -
Blog postIt's the beginning of April, and if I didn't live in the Adirondacks, Spring would be in the air ... we may still be in for another big snowstorm.
My latest novel, Thunderstruck, has been out for a few months, and I've sold hundreds of copies here and there (mostly here, with a couple of exceptions in Australia and Canada and the UK).
I'm happy with the book, happy with the sales, happy with being able to share my stories ... and ready to hop back on the merry-go-round ... this seems -
Blog postBen and I spent the last week and a half in Iceland, exploring the country via the Ring Route, a mostly two-lane, mostly paved, road that circumnavigates the mountains and lava fields and fjords of the small island nation. We lived out of, and slept in, a campervan, cooking much of our own food, and spending most of every day in the middle of nowhere, gasping at the scenery.
Most days, once we had found a spot to pull over for the night and made out supper, we'd watch something from the co -
Blog postI've been basking. Resting. Waiting. Thinking. Worrying.
My fourth novel, Thunderstruck, was published about a month ago, and I haven't done much writing since then. I've done a bit of planning of future projects, gave a series of talks on writing and my writing process, and thought about some stories waiting to be shaken/spilled out of my head ... but really, not much, mostly resting/waiting/thinking/worrying.
I'm proud of my latest novel, and my writing in general. There's nothing -
Blog postMy fourth novel, Thunderstruck, is now available in both PRINT and KINDLE formats on Amazon, and should be showing up in local stores in the next five to seven days.
I'm really quite proud of the book, and still enjoyed reading it after my final (tenth?) reading last week. It's a fun and nasty story, set in the Adirondacks, with a great cast of characters, including a new type of bad guy for me.
It fits in nicely with my other novels, Here Be Monsters, Caretakers, and B -
Blog postThe fourth novel in the Tyler Cunningham Adirondack Mystery series is just about ready to go live, Gail and I have been giving it a final read-through to make sure it is exactly the book we want it to be when people get their copies to read/enjoy.
It should be available worldwide in the next week or so.
Going through it again has given me a chance to get to know it, and Tyler again from a fresh perspective ... and I really love it!
I spent some time last wi -
Blog postI'm nearly done with both my fourth novel, Thunderstruck, and fifth novella, Speaking in Code. Both are Tyler Cunningham stories that follow him as he works his way through the confusing world of violent crime and the human condition (neither of which he really understands, either taken together or separately).
Speaking in Code is just a working title, but I'm nearly done with the story, so we'll see. It picks up shortly after Between the Carries leaves off, and follows Tyler and Hope dodg -
Blog postLawrence Block is America’s preeminent crime writer, and the author of more than 50 novels, 100 short stories, and numerous books on writing. In 1994 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America; he was awarded the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. On top of all that, he’s both my favorite author, and an inspiration to countless wrters (myself included); I was recently lucky enough to have him agree to an interview (which you'll find a few inches further down).
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Blog postI'll be the first to admit that the biggest reason for this blog update is that I love the loop of Kermit typing ... but even beyond that, I do have some important stuff to share!The new novel, "Thunderstruck", is going through another round of story and line editing by the tireless minions at SmartPig ... it should be, as Horation Alger urged, going West (to our out-of-house editor for her first swipe at the work) within the week.I'm hard at work on, and up to my elbows in, the fourth
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Blog postInvitation to the Party
I’m out this Halloween,out delivering invitations.
Walking down dark roads,and quiet paths,even padding along carpeted hallways(I passed your bathroom, heard you in the shower, but I don’t have an invitation for you, not today).
I see many people along my route,am seen by few,invite fewer still.
My home is the woods,cold fog and damp and the smell of rotten things on forest floor are my family;neither fallen leaves nor twigs cr -
Blog postLast fall I worked with a number of author indie authors to produce an anthology of short stories. It was a fun process, and I enjoyed the opportunity to work with them all, and to try my hand at writing something outside of my usual pattern.
The idea for my story came from a writing themed picture/meme I posted on my FB page:
I liked the idea of an interaction between the protagonist and the story in progress and the reader ... and in this way, my desire to write a short piece of me -
Blog postI've participated in the National Novel Writing Month program (NaNoWriMo) four times, and won every time. The decision to participate in this amazing program/experiment, may be the hardest and scariest thing you will ever do ... once you find your way into it, the writing will become easier and easier (I promise, despite what SK has to say about it).
After four years, I have three novels in print, and the fourth will be coming out in Early January of 2016 ... some of my success is d
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