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Hey, y’all... I wrote another book.It’s a novel. It’s also short stories. It’s illustrated. It’s years of my life distilled into around 300 pages.And it’s currently available for pre-order.However... if you are interested in obtaining a paperback copy before the December 2nd release date, you can get one. If you click this link here and order from my online store starting today, I’ll send you a signed copy that will come with some fun extra freebies that you can only get by ordering from me.Here’s a little more about it:The gloomy building behind the dying businesses downtown is a place mainstream society finds easy to ignore. When the young man in the third-floor apartment is crushed beneath the weight of profound hopelessness, a chain of events is set in motion revealing the quiet desperation of the building’s residents as they navigate their own struggles with love, loss, and the search for meaning in a world that seems to have forgotten...

"My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head." -S. E. Hinton"Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.” -Kim Addonizio“To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.” -Robertson Davies *** A few nights ago, Olivier, the cat and I were curled up in bed, enjoying our pre-sleep reading time. Me & Cat with a paperback; Olivier reading my latest short story published by an online literary journal.When he finished, he turned to me and said, "Yeah, I know where you got that idea from.""What? No you don't. I made it up.""Sure. Parts of it, but...

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